Yep. I grew up in Brea. It was surrounded by oil fields when I was a kid. Great for my dirt bike ('70 Yamaha DT 250)
The narrowed extended glide is no easy trick to master either. Broke mine at the triple tree, maybe it was the curb that caused it or the wall.I don't remember.
I don't know if you have been to a Chinese funeral but the custom is to follow a path to the cemetery that goes by places that the deceased had ties to. Home, business,church,tong,etc, not a bad idea I think. Limo is cool and the Professional Car is neat, good street rod potential there.
GAS WARS !! I loved them, the only problem was when it was over the price usually shot up a cent or two to make up for the loss. 19.9 was the lowest I have ever paid, that was about 1959 or 60. This photo is 1954 and that is for Ethyl...
Pershing Square is the location for this WW2 Air Raid spotting station. Sound tracking and search lighs right downtown. I am wondering if this is for display as on top of one of those buildings would be a better place for them. Many ofthose search lights would be sold for surplus after the war and light up the skys as attraction lights for movies, sales etc.
growing up in the bay area it was easy to experience chinese culture. on the weekends maybe once a month my family would go to china town for dim sum and groceries, (before American markets had an Asian isle and before Ranch 99 markets )... anyways, often there would be a funeral column with music, incense and monks. seemed like something was always going on. old world china mixed and western culture rolled up into one.
Yee Mee Loo photo Yee Mee Loo was a favorite place to get Chinese food for some of my racing friends in the 1960s. The food was great. Many Chinese families would be eating there when you were there. It was a basic, no frills eating establishment. Good memories. Don www.montgomeryhotrodbooks.com
Grand opening in 1939 of the Union Station which displaced old China Town. Train in front is riding on freight rails that run down Alameda St.
Although the three big rail companies (Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific) that came into Los Angeles no longer ran their passenger trains into the downtown area after 1939 opening of the LAUPT, I do remember dad having to "share" the road with freight trains in Los Angeles. I'd look out of the rear side windows of the car and two feet away would be a locomotive going about walking speed....YIKES, that's some big machinery!!!!
The Angeles Temple in 1928 with it's radio towers. The building has changed uses over the years, but it's still there on Glendale Blvd., just north of Echo Park.... Echo Park, just north of downtown Los Angeles is home to western United States largest stand of lotus. Echo Park, like so many areas of most large cities, go un-noticed by the masses as they rush to a fro for years and years. Most folks just visit the parks where they live. Too bad. I need to go to Echo Park for a walk someday around it's lake, and view it's flowers and fountains. It's about a 25 minute drive from me. Maybe after 59 years I ought to do that.....
Talking about more exercise through daily routine back in the day? How about roto tiller, 1940's style. Pomona, Calif., Plan For European Relief 1947
you can still see the tracks on alameda, not in front of union station, but down passed the 101. right down the middle!
So true. We usually only see our cities' tourist treasures when we have out of town company to entertain. And even then, there are places we never get to.
Can ya'll handle just one more cheesecake stripper? (talking about back in the day). This is about as good as it got.
"Maybe after 59 years I ought to do that"..... Doug, If ya go....make sure to walk down Carroll Ave....right down the street from the park.......beautiful restored Queen Anne and Eastlake style houses...
Bill...no...I swiped them of the internet to go with that black and white photo. This whole thread has made me appreciate living here more and, at the same time, kind of sad and stupid that I don't go and enjoy it more. It's like BrerHair said earlier...it seems that the only time we "see the sights" of wherever we live is when we have "company". Sooo.....now's the time to get a rod run planned to buzz a bunch of rods and customs out to the Nethecutt Museum...let's GO!!!! Spring's here, we won't have to suffer with the 60 degree winter temperatures.... I'll put a thread up soon with the date, time, meetup spot for the drive. It's in the north Los Angeles area of Sylmar off the 5 or 210 freeway. Admission and parking is free...parking is good and secure. The only people in the neighborhood are museum visitors.
If I were closer I'd be there. I know what you mean about not seeing the local sites right at your back door.
There are two museums there, one you can just walk into whenever it is open the other you need reservations. No charge and well worth the tour if it cost money.
1930's gambling ship the REX. Ship sat out in Santa Monica Bay and received people on water taxis who wanted to gamble. This was the result of the crack down on illegal gambling on land. Eventually the ships were shut down too. There were several.
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