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Although the image is labeled as Main and Alameda, the Sun Tent Co. building face is seen off of Aliso St. The palms in the foreground are somewhere near Marschessault St. Post 3595 on page 180, posted by gsjansen, details the view from the opposite camera angle with a very large posted image. I think the site for the gas station is now in the middle of the 101.
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"1935 Vintage Photo car accident on bridge Redondo Blvd. Venice Blvd. Los Angeles" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/rgUwGs.jpg EBAY 1935 Vintage Photo by ACME by one of the strange pranks fate often plays in traffic accidents, Violet Stratton miraculously escaped death or serious injury when this car carried her through the guard rail of a bridge and headed toward the storm drain about 40 feet below, at Redondo And Venice Boulevards in Los Angeles, California. Note how the debris-catching wire fence has arrested the fall of the car. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/gJSbxD.jpg I bet that's a Bank of America sign in the distance. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/gRIS8H.jpg (also note the wig-wag). I visited the intersection and there is no sign of a bridge or a waterway. :shrug: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/E8XdYC.jpg Check it out at GSV __ |
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This December 16, 1931 aerial clearly shows the bridge, but it looks like it was before the storm drain got its concrete bed. The 1948 view at Historic Aerials shows the storm drain already hidden below the widened roadway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ndoBridge1.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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If the Signal Gas Station is located on the north/west corner of Alameda and Macy, where is Olvera Street?
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I have a Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour dvd where she is a guest on one of the episodes and sings this song. It is done very stylistically. Part of the Smothers intro commented on how much the song was played on the radio that year. (Right now I don't recall if she also sings another song or appears in a comedy bit.) If you don't know, the song (which included a lyric about throwing a mysterious "something", never named, off the "Tallahatchie Bridge", was made into a 1976 film starring Robbie Benson. |
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Here's part of a 1942 permit application that lists it as a bank and the owner as Bank Of America. https://i.imgur.com/X28ttK9.jpg ladbsdoc.lacity.org |
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"The Signal Gas Station (right above the pair of palms) is now a Chevron station." |
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https://i.imgur.com/g6QAWN3.jpg?1Bristolian Photo Juror parking is provided at the Disney Concert Hall so it was pretty cool to park pretty much where South Bunker Hill Avenue used to be, although with much of the hill being leveled and parking as much as six stories underground, underneath would be more accurate. |
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Accident: Redondo Blvd. and Venice Blvd. [1935]
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As a reminder; Ballona Creek is still open-air just a couple blocks to the west of the 1935 accident bridge. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/bsYV6G.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu It's where the creek/ditch veers to the south at Cochran Ave. (orange mark) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/wdvCYL.jpg The view at Cochran looking west https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/HKKUft.jpg GSV __ |
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