I remember this area with it's tunnel. They filled it and built apartment complex over it. When the construction was going on I would drive past it almost every week, it was actually sad seeing it go.
"Angels flight reopened today!!!! After closing in 2001! They put a new breaking system on it." A new breaking system, that's all it needs! Thanks Eric, I do love a good typo. BrerHair, Hollywood 1936 Culottes? Good God, next thing you know they'll want to VOTE!
Oil wells were common as people and cars in the 20's and safety measures were little or no existent. Fires were common.
The SS Harvard was a coastal steam along with the SS Yale. They sailed up and down the coast with freight and passengers.
SS Harvard runs aground at Point Arguelo in 1931. My father was in the Coast Guard and helped try to re float it..No Luck
If you surfed, you should know who this is..Photo taken in the 20's of ....Duke Kahanamoku...No fiberglass there..
Next 12 photos are from a Life magazine feature "Hot Rod Accessories", no date. Look who's shop they shot it at:
So, Life magazine shot a feature on a car show that happened May 1, 1952 in LA. Who knows what/where that show was? Some of the cars can be figured out by reading the placards. Some I don't know. Bob Kuykendall May 1952
Please forgive my ignorance. There's a bunch of HAMBers who know these cars intimately, hell, there're some who were there! I submit these as simply part of LA history. Please educate me if you can. This one is a beauty:
The Jalopy Journal
