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sopas ej Apr 19, 2023 1:47 AM

November 10, 1953. Southbound Santa Ana Fwy (then US-101, now Interstate 5) at Lakewood Blvd/Rosemead Blvd (CA-19) back when it was a four cloverleaf interchange. I believe the freeway ended here at the time, hence the exit sign to continue on the 101. You can see the northbound/Rosemead Blvd. exit towards Pasadena in the background.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f55c474e_h.jpg
Photo source unknown

ethereal_reality Apr 19, 2023 2:52 AM

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Originally posted by Makerm
https://i.postimg.cc/SszG7Vcq/Not-Sa...nica-1930s.png

Mackerm, believe it or not, the throngs of people in the photograph might be there to watch an explosion.

"Thousands of motorists and spectators lined the hillsides along the Palos Verdes Peninsula coastline in the vicinity of Bluff Cove
on a sunny Sunday afternoon on Oct. 21, 1923, and what they witnessed truly was extraordinary.
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Amnvmv.jpg



Here's another photograph taken a few seconds earlier.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/k8Nv5P.jpg

"Engineers from the Hercules Powder Company set off a fuse that detonated 100,000 pounds of black powder and 10,000 pounds of dynamite.
The resulting blast sent an estimated 100,000 cubic yards of earth and rock tumbling into the ocean. More than 300,000 cubic yards eventually would be cleared from the area."

What sightseers had viewed was the clearing of a hillside for the Douglas cut, an earthmoving feat that would allow for the construction of a continuous roadway
along the length of the Palos Verdes shoreline. (It took its name from a surveyor’s stone labeled “Douglas” that had been placed nearest the land being excavated.)"


The complete story at the Daily Breeze

Huntington Digital Library


Great to hear from you again, MichealRyerson. :) Don't be a stranger.

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MichaelRyerson Apr 20, 2023 2:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9922332)

Great to hear from you again, MichealRyerson. :) Don't be a stranger.

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Hey Bruce, great to 'see' you again. Super pleased to see you guys are still in business. Just been rummaging around on the site. If I can remember how, I may even try to add a few things, maybe go back and reconstruct some of my lost posts. In any event, glad to see you guys.

ethereal_reality Apr 20, 2023 4:11 AM

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There's only been a few 'mysteries' that we haven't been able to solve over the years.

One of them is this photograph of an Indian Chieftain taken in Inglewood back in the 1910s or 20s.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/kYDFOq.jpg
HERE

Here's how I described it in my first post.

"Cabinet Card Photo Native American Indian Unknown Chief, 1910s.

Perhaps from a Wild West Show."

Photo by 'Lindburg of Inglewood' California

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Now here's the good news. :)

I recently happened upon a HUGE CLUE on eBay!

A photograph of the Lindburg Studios that took the old Indian photograph.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/HvE0hD.jpg
eBay


And that's not all. . .

. .there's writing on the back.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/QSgMjL.jpg

I was hoping the Indian photograph would be in the store window but, alas, this isn't a perfect world.



Go HERE to see a larger (and clearer) scan of the photo from my initial post.

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odinthor Apr 20, 2023 8:29 PM

:previous:

e_r, perhaps it's this event; see the "which the speaker mimicked" below:

https://i.postimg.cc/Nfy7nHP3/Indian...-1926-5-27.jpg
LA Times, 5/27/1926

ethereal_reality Apr 21, 2023 1:22 AM

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:previous:

That could be him! .I'm speechless. (almost)

Thank you, odinthor.

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odinthor Apr 21, 2023 9:05 PM

:previous:

About our photographer:

https://i.postimg.cc/g2LGJ8Yq/Lindburg-LAT-1936-8-1.jpg
LA Times, 8/1/1936

His parents had been among the first in Inglewood; his mother was a near-centenarian:

https://i.postimg.cc/Bbzd971W/Lindbu...2-11-Photo.jpg
LA Times, 12/11/1926

https://i.postimg.cc/C55W2p5H/Lindbu...1930-12-31.jpg
LA Times, 12/31/1930

ethereal_reality Apr 22, 2023 1:39 AM

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Thank for the extra background on the Lindburg family, odinthor. I appreciate it. :)





Here's a rare look inside the KAWAFUKU CAFE. (1936)


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/fNIQYL.jpg
eBay.................................................................................................................This looks like an upstairs banquet hall.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/YhzSxt.jpg
LAPL



The Kawafucku.oops ..The Kawafuku Cafe has only been mentioned once on NLA over 10 years ago!


Go HERE to see the post. (cover of a menu)


Martin Pal Apr 22, 2023 5:24 PM

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I don't usually think of a Café holding dozens of people!

E_R, in the link you provided from the original mention, it says "In 1966, Mr. Nakajima opened the Kawafuku Restaurant in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, the first to serve Edomae-sushi in the U.S."

1966? I'm confused.

odinthor Apr 23, 2023 1:23 PM

Not sure what the photo caption's writer was getting at with his "1966"; maybe it's a typo for "1916":

1916:

https://i.postimg.cc/6p7RWXBP/Kawafu...-1916-4-26.jpg
LA Times, 4/26/1916

1932:

https://i.postimg.cc/MTwjmf1k/Kawafuku-LAT-1932-7-8.jpg
LA Times, 7/8/1832

1966:

https://i.postimg.cc/rpXdqRnd/Kawafu...-1966-2-14.jpg
LA Times, 2/14/1966

Lwize Apr 23, 2023 2:42 PM

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Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 9926232)
Not sure what the photo caption's writer was getting at with his "1966"; maybe it's a typo for "1916":

1916:

https://i.postimg.cc/6p7RWXBP/Kawafu...-1916-4-26.jpg
LA Times, 4/26/1916

Prohibition hadn't started yet in 1916, but a "Blind Pig" was a Speakeasy.

ethereal_reality Apr 23, 2023 5:18 PM

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I found some detailed information on discover nikkei

KAWAFUKU RESTAURANT


1920s?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/UriBrT.jpg


"The Kawafuku Restaurant was opened on Weller Street in 1923 by Takichi and Hana Kato. It later moved to 204 East First Street. Following World War II, Tokijiro Nakajima took over the restaurant. However, the Kato's son Mitsuo, known as Jack, opened another restaurant in Little Tokyo with his wife Masako. This was the Daruma Cafe at 123 S. San Pedro Street, a popular Little Tokyo spot during the 1950s and 1960s. The Little Tokyo Historical Society has posted these photographs on behalf of Masako Kato."

I don't know if the sepia postcard is of the Weller Street location or the 204 East First Street location. :shrug:



Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 9925873)
:previous:

I don't usually think of a Café holding dozens of people!

E_R, in the link you provided from the original mention, it says "In 1966, Mr. Nakajima opened the Kawafuku Restaurant in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, the first to serve Edomae-sushi in the U.S."

1966? I'm confused.


Martin Pal, here's the modern redition of Kawafuku.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/iKYvp7.jpg
discover nikkei

"Kawafuku in its post-WWII incarnation, probably in the early 1970s. As the sign said, Kawafuku continued to specialize in sukiyaki.
Although it had also expanded its menu to many sushi options after Tokijiro Nakajima took over in 1946."


I take it it's this location.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/49BJHY.jpg

Thanks for the newspaper articles, odinthor. They helped in my search.
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odinthor Apr 23, 2023 6:48 PM

250 Jackson Street, the site of the 1916 incarnation of Kawafuku's cafe, will be sought in vain on a modern map. Here's the area, with Jackson at about center, from my trusty 1941 Renié Atlas of L.A.:

https://i.postimg.cc/x1SNLFHx/Jackson001.jpg

ethereal_reality Apr 23, 2023 7:07 PM

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You confused me a bit, odinthor. The Jackson St. location isn't listed or mentioned in the information I posted from Discover Nikkei.

But you're correct. Here it is.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/KxKr5V.jpg
LAPL

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ethereal_reality Apr 23, 2023 7:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lwize (Post 9926251)
Prohibition hadn't started yet in 1916, but a "Blind Pig" was a Speakeasy.

The term “blind pig” was born when an entrepreneurial farmer opened a tavern where he sold tickets to willing patrons to see his blind pig, and then gave them “free” drinks once inside.
It was illegal to sell alcohol, but not to sell tickets to see blind livestock..

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ethereal_reality Apr 24, 2023 10:25 PM

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A few weeks ago on eBay there were several remarkable glass negatives showing Jitney busses in operation around Los Angeles.


Here's the first one I happened upon.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Epg9Np.jpg
no longer listed

If we want to treat it as a mystery location I believe there's a clue that could help us out. (see below)


If you look closely there's an address on the Tin Shop but it's too blurry for me to read.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/2ZhC5s.jpg
detail


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ethereal_reality Apr 24, 2023 10:37 PM

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Here's the second 'Jitney' glass negative/photograph.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/2FwfYU.jpg
eBay

Cute kid.

And there was this as well.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/d87W6U.jpg


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HenryHuntington Apr 25, 2023 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9927198)
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A few weeks ago on eBay there were several remarkable glass negatives showing Jitney busses in operation around Los Angeles.


Here's the first one I happened upon.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Epg9Np.jpg
no longer listed

If we want to treat it as a mystery location I believe there's a clue that could help us out. (see below)


If you look closely there's an address on the Tin Shop but it's too blurry for me to read.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/2ZhC5s.jpg
detail


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Looks like "715 E. Pico", which would place the jitney southbound on San Pedro St. just beyond Pico Blvd.

odinthor Apr 25, 2023 3:42 AM

:previous:

https://i.postimg.cc/G23BjY6T/715-EPico-07-CD.jpg
1907 CD

ethereal_reality Apr 26, 2023 1:05 AM

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Thanks HenryHuntington and odinthor. I knew someone here on NLA could figure it out. :)

Team work!

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