Vintage shots from days gone by!

LAFD

 

The Aston Martin DB4 GT reg. 41 DPX is now painted green, and still on the road; 3.6 engine fitted.

 

LAFD Company 39, 1940

 

Los Angeles Civic Center March 11, 1946

 

Wilshire Blvd.

 

3rd Street tunnel cleaning in 1951.

 

It's almost time for me to re-post my favorite Pontiac pictures., haven't seen them on here for a while.
I don't usually get complaints about re-posts, either!

 

E. 1st St. looking east from 1st Street bridge near Mission Rd., Los Angeles, 1954

 

Figueroa Street Tunnels 1937

 

Pacific Electric tracks over Fletcher Ave. 1937

 

L.A. City Hall construction 1927

 

Sunset & North Broadway 1929

 

Union Station 1938

 

Spring Street 1957

 

Victory Memorial Bridge at Hyperion Ave.


I've driven a lot over this bridge when I lived there.

 

Jack Mattes was a well known Wisconsin area driver in the early 1920s. Unfortunately, he was killed on the mile track at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in 1927; possibly in this very car.

 

My great-grandfather was one of the engineers on this building and my grandmother worked there later in the records department.

 

You have someone to be truly proud of.
I don't think a modern day engineer could begin to do the things the likes of your great grandfather did without computers.
Engineers with nothing but super intelligence and slide rules. Workmen and contractors using logic and brawn getting jobs done in record time, comparatively speaking

 

I'll take Ann Margret in those short shorts over your "eye pokers" any day of the week
I lived briefly in Las Vegas when they started construction on that building behind them. They halted construction at about the phase you see in that photo because it was leaning and it sat like that for quite awhile.
It eventually opened as The Landmark.
As I recall it was off the strip on Stardust and ?

 

I once hauled swinging beef for Springfield Beef

 

tow ball under front bumper...

 

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