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Old Posted Apr 20, 2011, 2:59 PM
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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


Source: LAPL
(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...........................


Source: LAPL
(the international bank, (Bank of Italy) building is directly under the blimp)

same blimp a minute or two later


Source: 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


Source: LAPL

goodyear lends the newsboys a hand with delivering the examiner


Source: LAPL

navy blimp bombs downtown with war bond drive leaflets 1945


Source: LAPL

view looking south at figueroa and west adams from a blimp. the harbor freeway is under construction next to flower street - 1955


Source: USC Digital Archive

looking east across 1st and figueroa on a smoggy day from a blimp - 1955


Source: USC Digital Archive

looking west across bunker hill from a blimp - 1955


Source: USC Digital Archive

looking south from temple and figueroa from a blimp - 1955


Source: 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!)


Source: 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)


Source: USC Digital Archive

and after all that blimpin' around, you head over to florence and figueroa and catch a bite to eat here


Source: LAPL

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