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Mashed The Founders of McDonald's.....the brothers in this 1954 photo. It all began in San Bernardino, CA Their first stand sold hot dogs in 1940. |
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CBD, did you see that movie of a couple years ago about McDonald's and how it became what it is? It starred Michael Keaton and is called The Founder. I'd recommend it. |
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The Birds and the Bees sounds familiar, but that doesn't mean I've seen it. (IMDB Says it's a remake of Preston Sturges' "The Lady Eve.") Now Rhubarb I've heard of. Tom Hatten used to show it a lot on his KTLA movie programs that he hosted. It's based on a 1946 H. Allen Smith novel about a cat that inherits a baseball team. It's very Damon Runyonesque. I actually read it about ten or more years ago. I believe there was a sequel to the novel, too. I have the DVD of it, too. And if you don't know, a "rhubarb" is also baseball slang for a fight or argument among players and/or umpires. Ray Milland and Jan Sterling are the stars. William Frawley is also in it. Sources say that "Strother Martin and Leonard Nimoy have uncredited roles in this film" as well. This film is often called a screwball noir comedy. I can see that. (!) Ray Milland also did another screwball baseball film called "It Happens Every Spring" where he is a college professor who invents a substance that, if you rub it on bats, it repels the baseballs. (I wonder what happens if you rub it on other things?) Tom Hatten used to tell the story about a nationwide casting search for the cat to play Rhubarb, and would say that it rivaled the search for someone to play Scarlett in Gone with the Wind. And after all that they found him (Orangey) in their own backyard. On the Cinema Cats site, for the review of this movie, they write: "We will be posting a Feature Story on the behind the scenes casting of Orangey and his illustrious career in a future article, as it’s far too detailed to include in this review." But I can't find it on there. (Can you?) Sources say that this cat, Orangey, is the only animal to have won 2 Patsy Awards (for animal actors) for Rhubarb and for playing "Cat" in Breakfast at Tiffany's ten years later! |
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https://image.slidesharecdn.com/mcdo...?cb=1467038090 slideshare How fitting that modern fast food began in Southern CA |
This is one of the photos in the Huntington Library's Palmer Conner Collection.
It seems like a perfect noirish image to me! Can we decipher it? I'm guessing it'a a double (or more) exposure. The photo was titled: OUT ALL NIGHT! https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/a...30/default.jpgHuntington/Palmer Conner Collection Followed by an altered photo: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/a...32/default.jpgHuntington/Palmer Conner Collection (Methinks Robert has a sense of humor!) The original photo: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/a...39/default.jpgHuntington/Palmer Conner Collection |
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mystery location. [January 1972]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/B5i9z4.jpg Ebay There are street signs but they're too blurry to read. (for me, anyway) ... Here's a close-up the signs. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/B9BFWC.jpg DETAIL hmmmmm....:shrug: This is the only information. [INSIDE THE YELLOW RECTANGLE] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/ZE1vHc.jpg . |
Doris Nieh
On eBay, By Doris Nieh, 1962
http://www.califaztlan.org/LANoirPics/NiehCars.jpg |
OK, here's another mystery location, folks. [June 1972]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/OiMDD4.jpg Ebay There are numerous street signs in this slide as well. (four, count'em, four) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/bj9nfe.jpg Above Guy's Cleaners and over by the stoplight at far right. (circled) Info. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/rR868q.jpg Evergreen area? :shrug: . |
I think the sign reads Brooklyn (Cesar Chavez) and Cummings, looking southeast across Brooklyn.
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Wabash and Forest, Looking southwest.
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While taking the Googlemobile around the vicinity of the corner of Cesar Chavez and Cummings, pictured above, I saw some quite tall California Fan Palms in the distance, which betokened great age. Curious, I ran them to ground a block or so away on New Jersey St.:
https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5YvxK1/New-Jersey.jpg gsv More or less in front of 2012 New Jersey St. https://i.postimg.cc/76mK3wXH/New-Jersey2012.jpg gsv of which: https://i.postimg.cc/RF5WgHsG/New-Je...-4-25-1919.jpg LA Herald April 25, 1919, via UCR Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research But nothing about the palm trees. :( |
Page 3 of the following publication, dated 1900, shows retired mayor Henry Workman at his Boyle Heights home showing off the palms and Silk Oaks he had just recently planted all over the neighborhood:
https://archive.org/details/beautifu...00losa/page/n5 http://www.califaztlan.org/wp-conten...8/workman1.jpg These particular trees still stand. Of the mayor, it reads: "Mr. Workman has, by his liberal expenditure of money, time and energy in improvements, been the leading person in making Boyle Heights what it is today, he having expended in cash over two hundred thousand dollars in streets, railroads, piping water all over the Heights, grading streets, constructing sewers, sidewalks, shade trees, and innumerable other improvements that adorn the Heights. ” Quote:
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I was wondering if just maybe the Green Burrito restaurant above was the original location of the chain now owned by Carl's Jr. but it wasn't. That started on Carson Street in Hawaiian Gardens. https://i.imgur.com/8mSBxK3.jpg?1 https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/don-...NfV9z7qlPl3f5Q |
Downey McDonald's
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The Downey location opened in 1953. It was the third location in the chain at that time. This sign sits out front of the Downey location that answers the most common questions about when it was built, did Kroc build it, is it the first one, etc... https://live.staticflickr.com/3312/3...b6c50ed57d.jpg McDonald's History Tour by Abby, on Flickr The one thing the sign doesn't address is that it was the only location that still fried its Apple pies. I am not sure it is still the only one, but a coworker drives from Westchester (near LAX) to this location occasionally just for the fried Apple Pies. |
New to NLA.
Here are three amateur slides showing a command center that was set up after the Baldwin Hills dam break. [1963] #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/50kM5d.jpg Ebay (found about a week ago) #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/o5VXDL.jpg Ebay #3 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/sjgcHX.jpg Ebay I believe this is the same area that was initially under water. [SEE BELOW] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/ZFhj3m.jpg srk1941 at flickr You can clearly see the towering Thrifty sign. :previous: [shown in slide #3] .......but I can't find the gas stations. Did you notice the people standing on the roofs? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/7erTPw.jpg DETAIL . |
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