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I began my drinking career a decade after Brew 102 disappeared, alas, but the beer "perfected after 101 brews" (as it said on the label, as I recall) was a fixture in local markets and liquor stores when I was a lad. According to my (considerably) older brothers, Brew 102 was the apotheosis of swill. It was often consumed out of quart bottles, which were still referred to even in my early beer-drinking days as "depth charges." One of my brothers once told me that it was so bad that it made Lucky Lager taste like Pilsner Urquell. |
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I fixed the last line! "More than 100 brews did we brew, Perfecting the new finer Brew 102. In the East and West, Maier Beer is the best. At least until 1972." |
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Since we're in the old Triftimart neighborhood, does anyone have a vintage image for the following office building on Santa Monica Blvd (12330 / 12340 SMB, LA 90025) that was revamped several years ago with a modern glass false facade.
I believe the actual building behind the facade is from the 1920's or 1930's. http://larry.wizegallery.com/VWV/false%20facade.jpg (GSV, hosted by me) |
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https://i.imgur.com/SxpztaR.jpg?1 Google Maps |
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Here's another Thriftimart 'mystery' location. [Los Angeles]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/y8qRtV.jpg found in one of my old files (originally from ebay?) Obviously.. the best clue is the Bekins Building. I initially thought this was West Hollywood, but now I'm not so sure. As you can see..it's Christmas time and it's beginning to snow. ;) . |
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Baskin Robbins next door https://i.postimg.cc/mrjWZwG9/Capture.png Did they only have 11 flavors back then? Just kidding, but that's what it looks like on the sign. |
I didn't notice the Baskin Robbins. Thanks FredH.
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What the unfortunate and late digger may have been seeking--a vintage steel Brew 102 can pre-pop-top: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pale-Dry-Br...QAAOSwigpc-W8P Some of the ebay pics reference San Francisco cans. Was Brew 102 once brewed in that snobby city? Makes sense. Until recent years, in pre tech billionaire days, Frisco had a large blue collar resident population that would relish cheap brewskis. Now most of the worker drones have been deported to the distant exurbs so the billionaires can move in. Anchor Steam has taken over fog town. One thing I like about L.A.--it still is economically and ethnically diverse, unlike San Francisco. Los Angeles is more real. San Francisco is becoming a rich ghetto. L.A. to some extent is moving in that direction too, but large swaths of the city are still working class. |
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https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...riftimart1.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu This is as close as I could get to the original with GSV. The Bekins building, on the corner of Erwin, is now Studio Self Storage. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...riftimart2.jpg GSV |
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Hmmmm :hmmm:.....did Barbara Stanwyck and Zeppo Marx have their own train stop? "Barbara Stanwyck estate in the foreground and Zeppo Marx home in the upper corner. Devonshire looking east toward Reseda. 1937" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/o1Ft32.jpg Dayna Woethen-Reynold on pinterest A closer look. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/E1LO7F.jpg If you look closely there is a small worn path from the arch-like structure to the r.r. tracks. . .and a 'lane' leading up to the Zeppo residence. There is another path, far less pronounced, leading from the arched structure to the Stanwyck estate. .......(also...note the large incinerator on the Stanwyck property) As I sit here looking at the enlargement I am starting to see a 'sign' between the railroad tracks and the arch-like structure. Do you see it? THIS MIGHT HELP. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/PlKaJD.jpg detail . |
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Are we sure those are RR tracks? |
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I think the "station" was just the entrance to the Marx property. Here's an aerial from a few years later - 1944 to be precise. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...nwyckMarx1.jpg Here's the whole block. I wonder what was raced at the bottom. There seems to be a road/track all the way down from the two houses. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...nwyckMarx2.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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It was a racehorse training track - part of the Marwyck Ranch thoroughbred breeding operation that Barbara Stanwyck and Zeppo Marx and his wife Marion set up. https://i.imgur.com/eNYJD7Q.jpg Barbara and husband Robert Taylor at Marwyck. https://i.imgur.com/pwJ4TlZ.jpg barbara-stanwyck.com |
I think Gaylord is right. The house is facing Devonshire St. There are some railroad tracks, but they are on the other side of the house.
Zeppo's half of the property has been turned into a car dealership. https://i.postimg.cc/j5239nty/oakridger.png Google Maps They sure did look like railroad tracks though. |
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The old pool is still there....filled at the deep end with a foot or so of muddy water. |
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