Vintage shots from days gone by!

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You might be thinking of the Whiskey a Go Go , in Hollywierd !

 

What's the green car?

 

Talbot Lago Grand Sport by Saoutchik, I think.

 

I believe that this is Bill Burke, take during or maybe right after WWII. He was the father of the belly tank.

 

Since I was a kid looking at HR Magazine, I've thought the '32 grille shell is the most beautiful of all. Just perfect.

 

Downtown Barstow, California. My home town. Half-way between L.A. and Vegas, there was a big, covered, Standard station, just out of view on the left, that pumped more gas than any other station in the U.S. for several years running during this era.

 

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oldpiledriver said: ↑
The Purple Onion was in San Francisco.
You might be thinking of the Whiskey a Go Go , in Hollywierd !"

Well, guys; I am a lifelong resident of Los Angeles since 1945 and graduate of UCLA. I know where the Purple Onion was in S.F. and I certainly have been to the Whiskey when it was big time including when Johnny Rivers was appearing. I know what I am talking about and the club was on Sunset Blvd in East Hollywood, not the Strip. The building was painted purple. Maybe it was the "Purple Something Else" Maybe it was on Santa Monica instead of Sunset. What's the difference? The story I told is real and others who were regulars at the club know that including my date who was the daughter of a well known celebrity. Cher was a friend of my wife and her sister. You can pick and pick at people's posts all you want but when it comes to Los Angeles I can guarantee that I know more about it than you do.

 

Found this in a Vanity Fair ( don't make me read it again, please) magazine article, way too long to detail but here is a line, “I never knew that Cher was going to hit the heights she has until she and Sonny opened at my brother’s club, the Purple Onion, on Sunset,” Georgia Holt told me. Everybody feel better?

 

1958 Desoto Firemite powered promotional car. Almost 7 feet long with a 2HP Briggs and Stratton motor in the trunk. The bodies were originally made in Vacuum formed Polystyrene like the one above and would easily break up from the vibration of driving on sidewalks and the motor. The inexperienced drivers and cold temperatures in November and December of 1957 did not help either. Later in production they came out with a less detailed fiberglass body. Luckily I have one of each in my collection.

 

The School of Hard Knocks is not a tuition free institution.
What a true statement. I never realized how costly the lessons could be !!!!!!!!!!

I had an uncle who I started working for when I was 11 years old and he always told me the first time you make a mistake I will consider it a mistake but if you made the same mistake a second time you are a horse ass!!!!!!!!

That lesson stayed with me for my whole life. Words of wisdom from a very wise man.

Just my opinion. Jimbo

 

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