That was the dreadful day that mankind found out about the dangers of mixing Taco Bell and cigarettes.
This is public domain stuff as far as I know. It's been donated to LA public library. Don't know about publishing it. Not the most intuitive search engine, but have at it: http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/DoSearch?databaseID=968&index=&terms= Or try: http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/subject.cfm?subject=222216 There's a ton of this type stuff out there in Etherland.
I was born in Arcadia, really cool pics. Funny because Arcadia Police did not swith over to black and white cars until late 90's. I worked for SPPD and we always wondered why the heck they were all white. Now I see it went way back....
In 1958, A.P.D. switched to white Fords amd in 1959 they stayed with Ford but black and white...they went to white in the 70's when lots of P.D.'s went to white...now they are all black and white Mopars
I had to go into El Lay this morning to run some errands, so I thought I'd try to find the location of another of my "then and now" series. The photo location that I was trying to find was this one... here it is as of this morning... the cool curved building is still ther, but it has lost it's dignity...sadly no wonder those guys in the hot rod were smiling...that was a cool gas station, and it was probably because of their hard work that made it so.
Coolest city on Earth!!! Here's a cool shot. Downtown 6th & Hill. Four door Mild '50 Merc Custom. I love cruising Downtown. I relive my dad's teen years. If you squint your eyes it still exists. -stick
Drivers of midget auto racing cars, who were arrested last night at McLaglen Stadium on Riverside Drive before a large crowd waiting for the races to begin, are shown studying the complaint charging "fire ordinance violation." Front row, left to right: Peewee Disarce, Bob Ware, Ed Davis and Fred Hartman. Second row, left to right: Charles Vondera, Louis Ulbrich, Danny Oaks and Dick Holmes. Officials of the track claim the arrests are the outcome of a war with the Gilmore Stadium midget auto racing plant. Photo dated: July 31, 1936.
Jack Prince and Art Pillsbury built the Beverly Hills Speedway in 1919 on 275 acres of land, at a cost of $500,000. The 1.25-mile wood oval, which featured 45-degree banked turns, was funded by a group of actors and others in the industry known as the Beverly Hills Speedway Syndicate. The track was inaugurated on February 28, 1920, but after only four years the 70,000-seat stadium was disassembled to make room for other improvements in the newly incorporated city of Beverly Hills, holding its last race on February 24, 1924 before a crowd of 85,000. The developers eventually moved the racetrack to Culver City, and it was located at the intersection of Culver Blvd and Overland Blvd, right across the street from MGM Studios. It was at this "new" location and "new" track where Red Cariens was involved in a fatal crash on November 29, 1925. It was also at this location where Mickey Rooney's classic racing movie "The Big Wheel" (1949) was shot. This speedway was built at a time when car races were popular, so popular in fact, that there were radio broadcasts from the speedways. California had approximately six wooden track speedways, also known as "toothpick track" speedways. Culver City Speedway operated from December 14, 1924 to March 6, 1927; it was eventually removed to make way for movie studios.
Wouldn't be complete without something about the movie industry. And since the board track was across the street,...... View of Metro-Gold<WBR>wyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, showing the sets on Lot #4 on June 2, 1937. Aerial view of Metro-Gold<WBR>wyn-Mayer studios.
Here you go Mazooma: A police radio motorcycle<WBR>, believed to be the first without an operator in a side-car, were cruising Culver City as a new weapon of crime prevention<WBR>. Photo shows Officer L. O. Lindsay with the compact motorcycle radio equipment which he has invented. Photo dated: January 16, 1932.
You're right. Operation Teapot, Hornet test, in the Nevada desert: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Teapot.html
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