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Two pictures worth a 1000 words The old photo directly above looks like it was taken in San Francisco. The new photo, at top in the same location, maybe Bakersfield, a bad section at that. While parts of Los Angeles have improved, many sections have retrogressed. It is now difficult to say for sure that our urban fabric, overall, is better than in old "noirish" days. Human behavior, manners, courtesy and dress have in fact gotten courser, less civilized, as has the number of people living and dying on our streets, and our crass indifference to these lost souls as we look the other way. Is it possible that peak civilization and civility is behind us, not only in Los Angeles, but most places around the world (Ukraine and the mass shootings being the most shocking and egregious examples)? Civilization is marked by the following of basic rules and some predictability in behavior and human interactions. Usually these rules are based on reciprocity, the "golden rule" of treating others as you would want to be be treated. Now we have behavioral anarchy and unpredictability, and less or no trust in people we don't know. Can we all somehow return to civility and kindness in our individual interactions and ultimately international relations? It is a decision we all can make, and count on others to "pay it forward". Of couse evil exists, and must be confronted. I am not particularly religious, nor am not a church member, but I believe in reciprocity, in pay it forward. I gave a sad elderly homeless woman sitting on a sidewalk by her cart $10 today, and you should have seen her smile at a basic kindness. Her smile was worth the $10, the price of a latte, and I felt good all day. I told her to pay it forward. She promised she would, and maybe she will, or at least tell her friends what some stranger did for her. We cannot change society, and all those we help may not help others, but we can change ourselves, and if enough of us do, maybe these ripples of kindness we will return us to civility bit by bit. If you can't afford spare change or a few bills for a person in need, at least smile or nod and say "good morning" to a stranger you pass on the street. Offer an elderly person your seat on the train. Little things, multiplied by the millions, may bend us back towards civility :wiseman: |
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May I also recommend 'This is Water' by David Foster Wallace? I keep a copy handy. Better to hear it in his own voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI |
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Yay! More Flight Deck photos, and in color! And with NLA's new friends in them, too! Hope more of these two keep appearing around L.A.! I want to see the boy with that jaunty hat on! Here's a LINK I'd found recently on WorthPoint with five 1959 slides, taken on the runway, and two of them have Mike Lyman's Flight Deck in the background. |
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Here's another original (OOAK) slide currently listed on eBay. . . .and it's a mystery location. "Los Angeles California Eatons Rancho Sign 1940s 35mm Slide Kodachrome Red Border" As most of you know there were multiple Eaton's locations - and as you could see in the seller's description - no specific location is given. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/72lgEA.jpg I initially thought this might be a Culver City location because. . .um. . .I thought that was a munchkin at the bottom deciding where to eat lunch. In particular, this guy. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/TYXZuz.jpg .....MGM . |
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Book John Wayne Was Here, by Roland Schaefli, p. 170. https://i.postimg.cc/tCr6gcV7/Eatons-LAT-1949-8-28.jpg LA Times, 8/28/1949 |
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A furniture company in Phoenix makes a version of the chair shown in the lead photo called Phoenician. https://amalfiliving.net/phoenician-collection/ The chairs in the foreground of photo #2 are forerunners of ones by Cane-line and Brown Jordan. Umbrellas are being done today by Santa Barbara and TUUCI. Really a great series! Thanks. |
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"The Happy Wanderers"--1996 "California's Gold" Episode
The "Happy Wanderers" filmed in color was the most popular and highly rated travelogue shows in L.A. during the noirish era when early color TVs were selling like hotcakes. It starred Slim Bernard and his wife Henrietta on their travels through California and the west. Slim had a very distinctive laugh as you will hear. Interview with the production staff, Slim's wife and clips from the show with Slim. From "California's Gold" with Huell Howser. |
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Time to remind people, especially new visitors, not to bring down long stacks of photos from the posts you are commenting on. It uses page space, and the pages fill up faster making it less likely people will read or see other new posts before the page advances. I used to do that, but learned it is annoying to other posters, so when I comment now I usually scroll back and eliminate the redundant images from my reply, using the "x" back arrow. Or just highlight in blue, and hit back arrow to do it faster. If I am just commenting on one of the images, I may leave that one in my reply. This way pages stay up longer before they fill up and advance to the next page. |
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The (much smaller) Santa Barbara airport had a similar upstairs restaurant/bar. |
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There was some discussion of the Burbank airport's Sky Room on pages 2767-2768.
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This particular McDonald's had an homage themed interior spotlighting western moviemaking which was to honor Republic Studios down the street, I'd imagine. The decor was western and had props, including old-style movie cameras. At some point the McDonald's restaurants with themes in L.A. have pretty much disappeared. All the extra trimmings removed or revamped, like the one on Vine Street near Sunset Blvd. that was an homage to Casablanca, complete with an upright piano that visitors could play if they wanted to. Looking on GSV, that Studio City McDonald's was there in November, 2016, but gone by February of 2017, so it lasted 40 years. It appears to have been remodeled and opened as the Mendocino Farms Sandwich Market. The nearby Du-Par's Restuarant, 12036 Ventura Blvd. closed Jan. 1, 2018 after being at that location for 70 years. According to L.A. Eater at the time: The Du-Par’s team remains adamant that they will be back in Studio City at some point, with a whole new location, but so far they don’t have a line on exactly when or where that will take place. Reached for comment, one worker said that the restaurant certainly wasn’t closing “for lack of customers or bad food,” but rather a stalled lease renegotiation. A year later this location was occupied by Sephora. This Studio City Du-Par's was the very first place I ate on the day I arrived in Los Angeles, April 1st...back in the day! :) |
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When deleting unwanted parts of quotes, please be careful to leave the line at the top that starts QUOTE= and the one at the bottom that ends /QUOTE (and their square brackets). This will provide a link back to the original post. I've seen the formatting of many posts screwed up by a missing square bracket, and I've given up letting people know how to fix them as no one bothered! Feel free to PM me if you want further tips. For those new to the forum, if you're commenting on the post directly above, most times the previous (:previous:) arrows are good enough to show what you're reacting to (just type : previous : without the spaces). |
I love those matched-up "then and now" images. Here's Broadway 1959 vs 2019:
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I just want to add for new or infrequent posters, we welcome and appreciate your postings; and because all of us were new once, we all understand how it can take time to learn our ways. Don't feel intimidated or put off in the meantime--we value your contributions to the thread.
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Good advice Hoss & Odinthor. I didn't realize that all pages flip at 20 posts no matter how many pics there are, although the superfluous and redundant photos/text can be annoying. The "previous" use is essential to posters. Like Odinthor says, new posters are welcome to keep a blog fresh and we'll be tolerant as they learn. It took me long enough. I think you two gave me pointers on occasion :cheers: |
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