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Originally Posted by sopas ej
Cool Bunker Hill shots!
I had this pic in my East LA photo thread, but I thought I'd include it in here because of the film noir connection.
This is Whittier Blvd. in 1928, in what is now Pico Rivera. The billboard you see is advertising Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, which was a tourist attraction featuring live lions. Reading about it on Wikipedia, it opened in 1925 and closed in 1942 because of WWII meat shortages; it never reopened. But anyway, an incident happened there which was an indirect inspiration for the classic film noir "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
From USC archive
This is what that section of road looks like today.
Photo taken by me. |
It looks to me like that stretch is almost exactly the same...even the same pavement. Does concrete pavement last that long without having to re-pave? I know it's a weird question, but just wondering if that street is intact after 80 years.