Now we're getting close to home! My home, that is...
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Originally Posted by sopas ej
Divided highway near Pomona, 1938
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That stretch of what was then Highway 99 (it was called Arroyo Avenue back then) is less than 1 mile as the crow flies from the house in the Covina hills where I grew up. Today, this is the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) looking eastbound right before the Holt Ave. underpass. (That's the intersection with Holt Ave. just ahead in the photo above.) Unfortunately, the Street View of this intersection today is too murky to see any real detail, so I can't do a proper 'then-and-now'...
And the Fox Theatre - the photographer is standing on the northeast corner of Third and Garey with his back to the Mayfair Hotel, where my paternal grandmother had a beauty shop on the ground floor. (My dad - Edward Shannon, Jr. - graduated from Pomona High School in '32, the year after the Fox Theatre opened.)
-Scott