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Alhambra High School
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I'm sorry, Hoss, that I posted inaccurate information. I lived in Alhambra from 1957 and started high school in 1965. I should have said that I didn't remember seeing the building from my time in Alhambra. |
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According to my partner, it's becoming more and more common to hear Mandarin spoken with Beijing accents, as well as other mainland Chinese languages, in the SGV. |
Main Street looking east from 1st Street, Alhambra, 1905 (I seem to be on an Alhambra kick as of late).
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...cd&oe=5E019A84 USC Archive A close-up of the image: Is that a surrey with a fringe on top? With wire wheels?? https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...2e&oe=5DCFF707 USC Archive |
Dutch Rare Ice Cream store at the southwest corner of Main Street and Fremont Avenue in Alhambra, 1928. Notice the street names painted onto the curb, and the banjo-type traffic light.
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...a2&oe=5DCD3320 USC Archive https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...61&oe=5DD0BDC6 USC Archive |
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The wealthy people of Asia and Hong Kong, etc., were warned forty years ago that their days were numbered and they had best get out of Asia ASAP. https://storage.googleapis.com/hippo...dc490a-800.jpg Huntington |
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...620c58ac_b.jpg_8260003-Edit.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr The photo above is a near infrared shot, combined with a visual color shot. The Huntington is celebrating their 100th anniversary this year. |
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I believe the high Chinese population has helped erode the blue laws that seem to have been in effect for the longest time in San Marino. It used to be that EVERYTHING was closed in San Marino on Sundays. But in the last few years, I'm noticing a few businesses (like restaurants) being open on Sundays, which would have been unheard of there 10 years ago. I'm sure some Chinese businessmen were saying "What?? Closed on Sundays??? That's bad for business!! Turn away potential customers??? You can't make money that way!!!" There are a few Chinese/Taiwanese-type businesses in San Marino now too, like noodle shops and Chinese bakeries. |
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Bette Davis as Margaret Elliot in "The Star." Margaret's sister: "Where you been? Some glamour party?" Margaret: "Yuh. Had a ball." https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ar_trailer.jpg Margaret's sister: "Well you seem to have plenty of time to do everything except get out to Alhambra." |
Alhambra, again...
Martin Pal
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A RPPC found on eBay
Wolcott & Co. Jewelry Store, 3773 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles - California ...................................................................................................................I think the jewelry guy is a HOOT. :lmao: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/mU1tyL.jpg eBay REVERSE https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/CO2rrv.jpg I was surprised to see the 1947 postmark. I thought the interior of the store looked more like..late 1950s or early 1960s. . |
I also happened upon this RPPC of an American Legion Locomotive Parade in Los Angeles. [c.1938]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xXSdcD.jpg eBay I've never heard of this particular event. Intrigued: I searched & found one other photograph related to the event in the Pomona Public Library. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/1488oJ.jpg pomonapubliclibrary I couldn't help but notice the 'think-outside-the-box' contraption the legionnaires from Lawrenceburg, Indiana brought to the event. [see below] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/JDXjpN.jpg DETAIL I don't see how, by any the stretch of the imagination, that can be a 'locomotive'...but what they have created, a Flying Pegasus!, is exceptionally impressive. . .and super cool. hmm..do you think they drove it like that all the way from Indiana? |
The Baldwin Hills Oil Field House chronicled in Flying Wedge's thorough and excellent post here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19215 popped up in the latest episode of the FX series Snowfall last night.
The series is a docudrama about the beginnings of the crack epidemic in L.A. in the 1980s. It's in its third season and for my money, it is very good television. They have done a good job of recreating 80s Los Angeles, not only with the cars and such but also throwing in quirky reminders of L.A.'s past. One character was wearing Fedco employee's outfit and another scene had a couple of guys chowing down at home and they had Pup 'N' Taco cups. A lot of it is shot in South Central and they show the tall palm trees frequently. I would guess that they have grown a bit in the 35 years since but they are an effective element nonetheless. Anyway, back to the house. Previously unseen and unmentioned, it shows up as an isolated place where various elements of the drug trade are stashed. The screenshots show one of the main characters approaching it after he has been tipped off. https://i.imgur.com/xL8yx4l.png?1 https://i.imgur.com/nXXjUJx.png?1 https://i.imgur.com/vvDiGG9.png?1 Screenshots from FX series "Snowfall" |
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A summary of the somewhat checkered history of the "40 and 8" can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_...s_organization and the web page of their strictly sober present incarnation (with a sanitized summary history) can be found here: https://www.fortyandeight.org Cheers, Earl |
:previous: Terrific information, Earl. Thank you.
...Locomotives. (french boxcars) I see the connection. So your uncle was a hellraiser, eh? ;) . |
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Cheers, Earl |
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