LA Traffic Deaths: "Report to the People" 1946 Los Angeles Police Department
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0Ab...endscreen&NR=1 Jeff Quitney Youtube |
Pontoon times...
Great photos ER..!!! The area today is a wasteland of bland warehouses.
The old Pontoon Bridge was a real pain actually. Every time even a little tugboat needed to transit the channel, the traffic had to stop to let it pass. The two floating sections would slowly back under the projecting roadway. All of this happened to the tune of bells, whistles and sirens. The traffic would back up for blocks. This was not a speedy process. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psc6c4995e.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps098fe28e.jpg |
Similar to pulling the space shuttle through town last year. Spruce Goose on the way to Wilmington.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps29df898d.jpg theaviationzone.com http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps47c30e8d.jpg orgs-evolution-knowledge.net http://atomictoasters.com/wp-content...SE-Smaller.jpg http://atomictoasters.com |
Japanese on Terminal Island
During WW II 400 Japanese men who lived on Terminal Island were rounded up and sent to Relocation Camps. Most of them were tuna fishermen.
Here is their T.I. main street in the 1930s. Also, seen below is the Shinto Temple on Terminal Island in the 1920s. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psdc7cd398.jpg LAPL http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps70357536.jpg LAPL |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img195/5065/aab8thredo.jpg google area aerial 1930s http://imageshack.us/a/img818/5372/a...rialpluswa.jpg ocd/mn Contemporary view, looking north along S. Central Ave. just above E. 8th Street http://imageshack.us/a/img443/5883/a...rialtwoe2l.jpg and south. -truly impressive! http://imageshack.us/a/img189/3944/a...rialtwoent.jpg gsv view inside the market. http://imageshack.us/a/img4/2540/aab8thspc.jpg postcard/ebay __ |
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Also found this old photo. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps0180c564.jpg http://framework.latimes.com/2012/05...rminal-market/ 1927: A crowded Market Court at the Los Angeles Union Terminal Market, a wholesale produce market built by Union Pacific Railroad in 1918. Quote:
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Before the pontoon bridge was installed there was the bascule or "jackknife" train bridge to Terminal Island, built in 1908 (photo circa 1910), which was removed in the 1930s after the railroad stopped using it. Not sure how much time elapsed between the removal of this bridge and the installation of the pontoon bridge. Before this bridge, the very first bridge from Long Beach to Terminal Island was a 19th century single-track train bridge on a wooden trestle built by the Salt Lake Railway. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps792e426b.jpg http://portoflongbeach.blogspot.com/...nd-part-1.html The railroad didn't need the Jackknife bridge anymore because of the new Badger Avenue Bridge to the north, seen here in the 1920s before it was replaced by the Henry Ford Bridge. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps9adc33f8.jpg http://portoflongbeach.blogspot.com/...nd-part-2.html Quote:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psd44bee55.jpg google maps |
Terminal Market Clock
Found this in a 1919 issue of Popular Mechanics:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7294/8...5c7f26b3_o.png Popular Mechanics Magazine Jan 1919 |
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Video source http://www.discovernikkei.org _______ |
"Crowded Terminal Market" -images make me think of Thieves Highway movie.
Before C. Manson was sent to do his time in prison, he was held at a jail in Terminal Island. Anybody know where that jail was exactly? |
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http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/trm/ Capone was held there too. -and- http://www.mysanpedro.org/2012/01/sa...rt-of-los.html |
EDIT: Looks like tovangar2 and I posted almost the same info about Manson at the exact same minute. lol ! I like that video on your mysanpedro link! http://vimeo.com/25152402
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Charles Manson was held at the Federal Corrections Institution, Terminal Island, at 1299 S Seaside Ave on Reservation Point (part of San Pedro), from 1956 to 1958 for car theft and check fraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal...ior_to_1982.29 |
Los Angeles Cold Storage still here.
Here is the Los Angeles Cold Storage building in east downtown on 4th street. And the second image is a detail from I believe that 1909 hand drawn map of Los Angeles. Notice the shapes of the windows and the number of floors is the same in the gsv photo and on the map. Old Los Angeles businesses and buildings live on!
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...at121757AM.png[/URL] GSV http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...at122132AM.png[/URL] 1909 Map |
Thank you, Tovangar2 and Mdiederi.
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Thanks for the link WS1911. I believe this is the same clock! http://imageshack.us/a/img441/3664/aab8thclockv1b.jpg http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/nik...rs=&published= http://imageshack.us/a/img826/3644/a...lockvidoe1.jpg http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/nik...rs=&published= I guess they got rid of the clock's support column when they built the canopies over the seller's stalls. __ |
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Thanks, ER. I was just going to correct my post when I saw you'd done that for me! :) The clocks do look similar. _______ |
I really like the lettering in this ad, especially the stylized H.
Los Angeles Herald, 1890 http://imageshack.us/a/img707/1231/a...891clearer.jpg http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ __ |
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