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Originally Posted by gsjansen
a great image of Hollywood Young Republicans on Mother's Day 1954, in indignation over vandals smearing the billboard of Mildred Younger, candidate for State Senator. they are giving her a good clean scrubbing
the billboard was located on sunset boulevard just east of figueroa
Source: USC Digital Archive
here is a 1960 front facade image of the house that was located at 835 sunset boulevard that is visible on the left side of the billboard
Source: LAPL
here's it's neighbor at 849 sunset boulevard
Source: LAPL
a 1924 image looking east on sunset across figueroa, today, this view would be of the orsini apartment complex
Source: LAPL
yikes! look at all that traffic with nary a stop sign nor semaphore in site! |
This post is close to my heart: Sunset between Fig and Grand is a great source of joy. (And heartbreak.) I wrote a bit about it years ago, here:
http://1947project.blogspot.com/2005...n-manhole.html
(I know, I know, it's a stretch to call that area Bunker Hill, but it's reasonable hyperbole.)
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That of course is the north side of the street. On the south:
And these guys:
Crunch crunch:
Let the body hit the floor:
On the "auto repairing" building, at its east side, there was this cool ghost sign. It read "LUMBER Plyw-d Roofing - Cement - Wallboard General Lumber & Supply Co. MA-8-4022 - 806 Sunset" Here it is, before, during, after.
