those folks over at the Los Angeles Public Library are at it again...........i know for sure, i would have remembered this aerial showing the Stuart K. Oliver house from above taken from a blimp!
photograph is dated 1965
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LAPL
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of course i could be wrong, and this photograph has been already posted, after all, a few posts ago we ascertained that i am indeed gettin' old)
and speaking of blimps...........................
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LAPL
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the international bank, (Bank of Italy) building is directly under the blimp)
same blimp a minute or two later
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LAPL
we had discussed the O'Conner Electro-Plating Corp explosion some months ago, here is what the disaster scene looked like from a blimp
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LAPL
goodyear lends the newsboys a hand with delivering the examiner
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LAPL
navy blimp bombs downtown with war bond drive leaflets 1945
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LAPL
view looking south at figueroa and west adams from a blimp. the harbor freeway is under construction next to flower street - 1955
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USC Digital Archive
looking east across 1st and figueroa on a smoggy day from a blimp - 1955
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USC Digital Archive
looking west across bunker hill from a blimp - 1955
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USC Digital Archive
looking south from temple and figueroa from a blimp - 1955
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USC Digital Archive
looking north across 3rd street and flower from a blimp - 1955 (
i don't know about you, but this is the only image i have ever seen clearly showing cinnabar street and sack alley in their intact state.....at the same time!)
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USC Digital Archive
awwwwwww how cute, a momma and her baby.............................graf zeppelin and goodyear blimp side by side at mines field, (future site of LAX)
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USC Digital Archive
and after all that blimpin' around, you head over to florence and figueroa and catch a bite to eat here
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LAPL