man, look at all the neat old advertising goodies.........check out the wooden phone booth on the left with the old two-piece folding door
Note that in all posted prices of gasoline, there is always a 9/10 after the two numbers to the right of the decimal point. That is, after the "cents". 9/10 is part of the tax. So...69 cents plus 9/10. I am old enough to remember 17 and 9/10!! Merit station outside Boston. And THEY pumped the gas, checked oil and cleaned the windshield. There was NO self serve.
Very well said...it was a different era back then though our kids (and, in my case, grandkids are facing similar challenges. Sierra Madre? We lived at 24 Vista Circle Drive when we were first married and then on south Michelinda one block south of Sierra Madre Blvd...other guy who lived in Sierra Madre was Nick Van Wagner, who ran a homemade B/fuel dragster and sometimes won top fuel in the early 60's....he did everything on a shoestring budget (Don Blair sent me once to reposses some stuff Nick borrowed!) lost track of Nick years ago, wonder if anyone remembers him?
Yup, you were just down the street from the little fire house on Alta Vista and around the corner from Mary's Market on Woodland...it's still there...I've been here since 1973 Mary's Market
The Series in the daytime, those were the days! The great teachers would let someone bring a TV set (B&W of course) to class. Transistor radios. . . . walk down the street and you just about wouldn't miss anything but for the sound coming out of the shops.
no kidding...I have forgotten that they were day games. Yeah, in junior high in about '64-'65 there were TV's and radios everywhere...the teachers were real good about it...fun times
Great shot! Bernarr Macfaddens' Physical Culture magazine . . . Love the comics hanging with clothes pins! (guess they're comics) . . . girlie mags on the back wall . . . Copenhagen snuff . . .
The Florentine Gardens was a Hot Spot for dining and a floor show, located just east of Vine on Hollywood Bl.
Pull Over Kid !!! Note the gas mask on the bat wing. WW2 worries of attack. Rigid frame no helmet, the only luxury and protection is the bat wing. Brave souls.
Good stuff, Sam. The 30's were hardboiled. Here's your 2-gun Davis, Doug. Didn't know about the casino ships. The aerial views of the oil derricks are cool . . . Clifford Clinton. . . dark, sinister, gumshoe-heavy political LA.
you know whats interesting is they mention the corner of Sierra Madre and Villa....thats right where Al Hawkins lived, the guy that taught me much about photography and a hellraiser with a deuce roadster... his car today RIP, Al, a great guy!!!!!!!!!!!!
It kind of looks like George in the rear. Sam died in 1968, if I remember correct...actually the guy that might be George looks more like a young Baskerville....?????
In the mid-60's there were several riots involving teens and young adults. They were protesting a curfew imposed by the police in an attempt to contain the hopped up kids full of booze, pot and trouble.... and, yes, I enjoyed typing that this spawned a bunch of stooopid Hollywood movies....full of HIPPIES and TIGHT PANTS and starring actors that you'll never hear from again! and the infamous song by the "Buffalo Springfield" performed here on the Smother Brothers TV show... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6NeM-6vBE
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