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This thread with the Greyhound Station is closely connected to the thread about the lots surrounding the Cinerama Dome.
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Yes! We can even be environmentally friendly and recycle used graphics. Old circle of interest = red New circle of interest = blue https://i.imgur.com/TgCCE4p.jpg :tup: |
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My first bus trip was in 1999, and i remember waiting an hour to board the bus and getting something from McDonald's and being worried that the bus might leave me. I know the Pic N Save was the last hold out for the name change to Big Lots, and it was a PNS well after they tore down the bus station. KFC was still around during that time as well.
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I just found two additional photos of Diana Mitchell.
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/noDLsv.jpg eBay :previous: mystery location I'm guessing that this particular 'Arrival in Hollywood' scenario was staged. hmm. . .but shouldn't the destination on the bus be 'Los Angeles' . . .not 'San Diego' :shrug: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ShvSi7.jpg eBay . . .unless this was a "Diana Mitchell spends the weekend in San Diego" scenario. ....ha ha . |
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Just so it is clear, this film wasn't an exploitation of the actors, but instead a celebration of their uniqueness as members of a sideshow, and how they bond as a family. Actually, the villain in this film is the female who is the only person in the "freakshow" without any disabilities, but she instead is a fake fortune teller and is pretending to care for a little person to get his money and break up his marriage. Remarkable film and WAY ahead of its time. |
The McDonald's restaurant just north of here (reflected in the window near the bus) received their Certificate of Occupancy at the end of November, 1979. This photo was likely taken after that.
The restaurant and bar on the south side of the station with the wedge-shaped sign and the flagstone wall, was originally called The Grapevine Room. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...dd9d4f22_k.jpg (my collection) The station was designed by architect Kenneth R. Swift in 1955. Los Angeles Times 24 Oct 1965 notes that he was the associate architect of the big bus terminal on 6th Street downtown designed by Welton Becket and opened in 1967. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ae056b978f.jpg (1970 AIA Directory) Kenneth R. Swift (1907-1999) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116133550 Quote:
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Snix, love that matchbook.
Heh, really? "Superb Food" in a bus station? This is the first I've heard they served food there. Quote:
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The matchbook says the food is superb. The sign in front downgrades the food to fine.
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Yep. You're absolutely right! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/WEyScw.jpg GSV How in the world did you figure that out, BDiH?.... I thumbed through numerous city directories and found nothing. . |
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This lot of 9 negatives showed up on eBay yesterday. "Original 1960's Bunker Hill Los Angeles CA Photo Negatives lot of 9" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/miAOda.jpg eBay Let's take a closer look at some of the images. I recognize this once grand home but the name of the original owner has, momentarily, slipped my mind. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/xPgy9Q.jpg eBay This white clapboard(?) house is also familiar........note the breeze blowing the curtain. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/R44Rn7.jpg eBay Here's a twofer. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/8LWISp.jpg eBay The building on the right is also the subject of the next image. (below) This is, perhaps, the most interesting of the 9 images. .... (and the most sad :() https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/EtbAUH.jpg eBay Destruction / and a front entrance. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/OIHttO.jpg eBay A burnt back porch? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/HwVuic.jpg eBay Link . |
Just to pile on, I remember that Greyhound station, too. I once picked up my then-girlfriend from there.
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I'm wondering if this is an earlier incarnation of the Orange Inn, and later, Wigwam in Arcadia. The pictures came from different sources, so I don't know if they're connected. There are also Oaken Bucket orange juice glasses for sale, and an Oaken Bucket Rose Parade float.
https://i.postimg.cc/K8qrkp1x/gb-546.jpg cityofmonrovia.pastperfectonline.com https://i.postimg.cc/0jspRLBd/Oakenfront.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/pXPD0M8P/Oakenback.jpg eBay https://i.postimg.cc/VkVnLShN/Buckstsign.png www.liveauctioneers.com |
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So top row, left to right, you've got the utility stairs between the Hillcrest and the Astoria, looking from Clay up to Olive, near Third. There's demolition debris where the Hillcrest was so I'd peg these negs to late September/early October 1961. Next shot is what looks like a jumble of demo debris. Probably from the Hillcrest. Next shot over is the doorway of the Dome Apartments. The next two shots, stacked one atop the other, are of the Brousseau. Bottom row, far left, the back of something that fronts onto...somewhere. After I get it and look at it with a loupe I'll find some clue I'm sure. Next to that is looking south on Grand from near 2nd alongside the Dome again. (Note: in the seller's listing they placed this neg down backward, so the image is reversed.) Then there's what looks like a burnt-out structure, and, there was never any lack of structures aflame on the Hill, like the Boswell burning in May '62 or the Dome conflagration of '64. There was a stable in back of the Castle converted to residential that burned at some point, this may be that; I'll have to check into the date. And speaking of the Castle, that there on the end of this row is our final photo. |
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Several times at night I took a bus from that station to San Diego - mid 1970s. I was in my 20s at that time. |
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Didn't either of you partake of the superb (or fine) food in the Grape Vine? In my post above I wrote about the matchbook... Quote:
...when the photo of the place clearly says "restaurant." :help: |
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