That karate school with the distinctive plastic backlit sign we saw on Sepulveda was built by Ed Parker, the kenpo karate trainer who opened the first commercial karate studio in America and taught Elvis Presley martial arts.
http://kenponotes.blogspot.com/2015/
https://blackbeltmag.com/ed-parker-a...n-kenpo-master
https://www.facebook.com/edparkersr/...2086490228750/
There were additional schools, including the one at 1705 Walnut Street in Pasadena which has been closed for some time, but remains for the moment.
https://americankenpokarate.net/2019...na-california/
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Originally Posted by riichkay
These are courtesy the hemmings.com automotive site, both are supposedly here in the city.....
A commentator on this pic at the hemmings.com site sees a white '59 Caddy waiting at the light upper right, presumably we are around that year.
I ran Western Camera in late '50's Yellow Pages in the central/western books, nothing turned up....we have a clue in the "7901" street number painted at the top of the building.
Undated, but that's a '68 Sedan de Ville on the left, so likely late '60's...
Plenty of signage clues but I can't make them out, other than the traffic sign hanging over the street upper right that seems to read San Diego Fwy. |