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It isn't a good 1940-50s Chinese joint without a "Chop Suey" neon sign out front. Double bonus for "Egg Foo Young". Still a fair number of 1920s cars on the road. Car production and demand went down in the 1930s, so a lot if people kept their 1920s cars, plus almost no non-military cars were built during WW2, so 1920s cars were fairly common to see well into the late 1940s and even into the '50s. I remember them when I was a kid. In the 1950s and 1960s some were reincarnated as "hot rods". Nice view of the dear departed Richfield Bldg. at the start of the film :wiseman: |
Seaboard National Bank, Los Angeles, in 1936
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This building replaced the Kornblum house, completed in 1909, at 3143 Wilshire Boulevard: https://i.postimg.cc/QCCkpP3p/3143repl-MAIN4-FB.jpg The full story of the property is here Seaboard National Bank moved into the building in 1931, moving from the Busch Building across Wilshire--it even took along its big rooftop sign. See the story of the Busch Building here and here--in the latter, my compilation of Wilshire Boulevard buildings that replaced residences, scroll down. https://i.postimg.cc/DZPnqjgy/WBand-...h-Bldg-bmp.jpg LAPL PS Harrys: These pictures are great, keep 'em coming, but is there any chance you could make them slightly smaller in width? They tend to be too large for easy viewing on my 15" laptop, not to mention on a tablet. Just a thought. |
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Ok, i'll post them resized. I uploaded them full size so all details can be seen :)
Not quite L.A., but i find it to be an interesting piece of CA history. Palo Alto Hospital in 1936 https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...KP61=w640-h370 |
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Here's a new one to me. The Lazy X
11720 Van Owen, North Hollywood https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...84ea68ea_w.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...630d04f4a4.jpg Vintage matchcover on eBay https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5461d342_b.jpg The venue opened as a Country & Western spot in 1964. Valley Times 6/18/64 then quickly started booking big name acts like Phyllis Diller https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...781396ae_z.jpg LAT2/25/65 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...41d82273_z.jpg Valley Times 4/2/65 LAT 3.14.65 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7cf72f2a_z.jpg LAT 4/14/65 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...10e85322_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5e7bb073_b.jpg LITTLE RICHARD and a Watusi contest! Citizen News 10/1/65 Ike & Tina Turner https://concerts.fandom.com/wiki/Nov...azy_X_1967.jpg A little noir... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b34bb434_z.jpg Van Nuys News 9/8/66 Can't find much after 1971, but today the building is still there. It's still a bar, it's called "Salsa and Beer." Here's a 2019 pic when it was "Gorditas Durango." https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...43ebb742_z.jpgGSV |
[QUOTE=Snix;9547272]Here's a new one to me. The Lazy X
11720 Van Owen, North Hollywood https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...84ea68ea_w.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...630d04f4a4.jpg Vintage matchcover on eBay Great stuff Snix! I wonder where the band set up....maybe photo taken from stage? |
Los Angeles County Hospital in 1936
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Can't find much after 1971, but today the building is still there. It's still a bar, it's called "Salsa and Beer." Here's a 2019 pic when it was "Gorditas Durango." https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...43ebb742_z.jpgGSV[/QUOTE] Salsa & Beer is actually a restaurant with two locations and is one of the most popular family run Mexican restaurants in the Valley. |
Costello Senior Citizens Center
Good Lord. Hideous! Depressing.
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A resembles Gene Tierney, but Tierney resembles N too. A also has a slight resemblance to Rita Johnson. Pretty sure B is Mona Freeman & C is McDonald Carey. D resembles Esther Williams, also Marie McDonald E looks like John Lund to me, not James Cagney. G resembles William Demarest. I is William Bendix, already correctly identified. J looks like Maureen O'hara, as has been pointed out. K, to me, resembles Mark Stevens, rather than Ray Milland. M looks like Dan Dailey. R indeed resembles Gail Russel, but also Helen Walker - somewhat. S indeed resembles Cesar Romero. I agree that Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, Richard Widmark, Barbara Stanwyck ( a curiously old photo from the thirties), and Veronica Lake have been correctly identified. All of these names would've been at the top of their game around 1947 - although I see the photo was taken in August of '49.. |
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Billy Jack billboard, Los Angeles - August, 1971. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/I8zh8i.jpg gettyimages Do you suppose the owners of the red and orange cars - which, as you can see, perfectly match the billboard - were paid to park their cars there for the duration of the Billy Jack publicity campaign? ooooor. . .do you think it was simply fortuitous that the cars were parked there? :shrug: . |
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The red Mini looks fairly stock, but the yellow Beetle appears to be a model from the late-50s that's been customized to some extent. The rare one in the picture is the white Fiat Dino. Wikipedia says that less than 6,000 of the coupes were built. |
JeffDiego nails "M" as Dan Dailey...
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds Jeff (and others) are also correct on "G" as Bill Demarest.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds I think John Lund is good for "E" instead of Cagney.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds And Cesar Romero is correct for "S".... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds |
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What is the red mini, A Fiat or BMW early version mini cooper, or something else? |
“Twenty-Five Mile Ocean Drive, Santa Monica”
I was browsing through a digital version of "Staley's views : Los Angeles, 1914-1915"
https://archive.org/details/staleysv...p?view=theater https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...2/stanleys.png And found this image whose caption was “Twenty-Five Mile Ocean Drive, Santa Monica” but I’m guessing it was actually taken just north of Santa Monica on PCH? Anybody care to confirm or deny? https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...circa-1915.png |
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hmm. . . .how should I post this? I know! I'll post it as a CHALLANGE. Can anyone figure out this mystery location? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/xaG3l0.jpg old file / I have the answer (it's written on the back) but I want to see if any of you fine sleuths can figure it out. If no one does (figure it out, that is). . .I'll post the answer in a couple of days. Good luck minions! :whip: . |
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