Weber's Bread Truck
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Watkin's Chacolates
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Ralph's Grocery
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Holly Poltry Co.
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Globe Ice Cream
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Diamond T Armored car
View of Guarantee Service Company's 'Diamond T' armored truck. The Diamond T Motor Car Company was formed by Charles Tilt of Chicago in 1905. During the first 6 years, custom built passenger cars were manufactured by hand in the rear of a small one story garage. Diamond T switched exclusively to building trucks, discontinuing its passenger line in 1911. In 1958 Diamond T was purchased by White Motor Corporation and became a division of White. Photo taken at an unknown location in Los Angeles.
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Giant speaker mounted on the rear of the truck in the 1920's or 1930's, used as a portable loudspeaker system.
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Gilmore Road Oil
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A Transit Mixed Concrete Company truck is parked in front of a storage tank. There were several locations around Los Angeles in this time period including 1000 North La Brea Avenue in West Hollywood, 780 Union Pacific Place at the southeast end of the 7th Street viaduct, and 3492 East Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena.
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A man drives a specialized truck loaded with loose lumber past a cargo ship, cranes and more lumber stacked on the dock at the Port of Los Angeles.
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A man (probably the vendor) assists a woman standing in front of a truck parked in a residential neighborhood which has been specially modified to sell fruit, with open paneling, an awning, and display crates that keep the fruit separated during transportation.
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Someone has attached a canopy to his truck to mimic a covered wagon probably for the Desert Circus week held March 13-19 in 1939. This annual event, which started in 1931, included parades, old west activities and parties. The truck is parked in front of the Palms Springs Drug and Import Company located at 160 North Palm Canyon Drive. Notice the postcard and newsstand racks by the open door.
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A driver/milkman for Adohr Creamery Company, sits at the wheel of his delivery truck.
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Delivery vehicle of the H. Jevne Co., a wholesale grocery supplier, taken in Highland Park in 1906. The company was located at 208 and 210 South Spring Street. This early truck has no steering wheel but uses a metal post device and has no front enclosure.
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A delivery truck for the Los Angeles Times in 1901.
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Mack Truck 1917
The 100-inch telescope glass being hauled up the one-way dirt toll road from Altadena to Mt. Wilson by truck in 1917. It was boxed in and draped with an American flag. A 200-inch mirror was put in place on April 10, 1936, giving astronomers the ability to see even further into space.
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1926
A driver is receiving a traffic ticket in 1926 from motorcycle police. Next to the car is a truck marked "Justice Court," perhaps with a judge to dispense instant justice?
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1928-1929
A car is set up for broadcasting with microphones on the roof and above the driver's head. On the truck are the call letters of KEJK radio station of the MacMillan Petroleum Co., and the name Freeman Lang. Lang was the chief engineer of the station, which he founded in 1927 under the call sign of KRLO. He sold the station in February 1928 to Ernest J. Krause, who changed the call letters to fit his initials, KEJK. Just two months later, KEJK was sold to R.S. MacMillan Petroleum Company of Beverly Hills, which owned KEJK when this photo was taken. They would change the call letters on March 14, 1930, to KMPC to fit the company name.
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1929
A Salvation Army model A truck makes a pickup of donated items in Los Angeles in
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1929
Unloading avocados from truck to the Calavo Growers Association processing plant.
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1931
Tow truck in front of the Royal Coach Auto Body Works, a body and repair shop.
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1937
During a film strike taking place outside the Bronson Gate to Paramount Pictures studio, May 5, 1937, a truck is parked in the entrance. Film poster on the truck advertises upcoming 1937 movie, Internes can't take money. Policeman guards the entrance as workers wait outside. In 1937 seventy-five set decorators broke away from the IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada) to form their own association, the Society of Motion Picture Interior Decorators (SMPID) and negotated an independent contract with the producers. In 1943 they would affiliate with the CSU Local 1421.
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1951
A driver of an Adohr milk truck is shown picking up pieces of glass milk bottles that shattered in the street after the delivery van hit the palm tree seen on the left. The accident occurred in the middle of St. James Park. Various models of cars are parked on the street in the background. Photograph dated January 13, 1951.
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1956
Scoop trucks like this one have played an important part in reducing the cost per ton for collecting and disposing of rubbish in the Los Angeles harbor area. The project there cut cost from $14.23 in December to $8.00 in March, during which time the amount of rubbish collected increased more than four times! Mrs. Barbara Brown of Torrance watches the operation. Photo dated: May 2, 1956.
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1957
Driver takes new type of truck for hauling combustible rubbish through a serpentine course in a five-part test to qualify drivers for the new trucks being staged at Chavez Ravine. This test is one in which a driver must start with a course which simulates conditions in a narrow alleyway. It starts with a 1 1/2 foot clearance on each side, and narrows down to three inches. Photo dated: April 3, 1957.
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1965
Officers hold a suspect and search his vehicle on a gas station lot near Slauson and Avalon Avenues. Patrolmen reported they found a 22 calibar weapon inside of cleaners delivery truck. Photo dated: August 15, 1965.
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1967
Attorney Henry G. Bodkin, Water & Power commissioner (taller man of the two) and Edgar Konouse, general manager & chief engineer of the DWP inspects the "Volts Wagon," an electric truck used to research the feasibility in relation to city. Photo dated: May 22, 1967.
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