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Old Posted Jan 6, 2016, 8:27 AM
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
President Lyndon Johnson campaigning in Los Angeles, 1964(?)

Over here Mr. President!


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Could this be a visit by LBJ when he was Vice President? It seems unlikely he'd be allowed to ride in an open car through a crowd like this after the JFK assassination. Some of the cars in the other photos are from the early '60s so it's not the 1960 campaign.
October 29, 1964:


Read the rest of it here

All sorts of interesting tidbits here—

Note how the 200 block north of the Hosfield is undergoing demolition:



The Currier Bldg was still neighbor to the Bradbury, along Third:



A Cozy close-up:



It's fun to play "Spot the Secret Service Agent"—



It amazes me that even after Dallas, they tolerated folk rushing the Presidential limo.



But Johnson was his own man. Hiya!

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