i dunno... if you pause it a few seconds before you can see the silhouette of the driver's head. as the driver makes the left his head gets lost in the shadow against the sail panel. if you do some quick pause/play/pause/play, right around 3:40, you can see a skin colored blob where the driver's head should be.
Another video of the Valley and Santa Monica in the forties. In the middle of the video is a coronation so you will have to get by that for more scenes. http://archive.org/details/LAprocessplatesandcoronation
I would say it is sometime early in 1957. Lots of '57 Chevy's & Fords on the road and at 0:39 the movie "Friendly Persuasion" is playing at the Iris, it was released November 25, 1956....
Damn, I remember driving by the Hangman, think it was in the Glendale/Burbank/Sunland area, on Foothill Blvd? Yes, "lousy food, warm beer"..,.always wondered what happened to it
I don't know where but ,can you imagine the amount of lumber and work it took to build a board track? Whew!! I wonder what possessed them to build board tracks in the first place , why not build up dirt berms and pave them with asphalt or concrete? It had to be very costly to build them of wood and require a LOT of skilled labor to properly join and finish all those boards.
Also dangerous. As the tracks aged and deteriorated (and minimal maintenance was done), the boards would shrink, warp and loosen up, causing a variety of hazards. I've read accounts of early races where drivers or riding mechanics were injured or killed by loose boards flying up during the race. I think the primary reason for board tracks was cost ... lumber was a cheap material at the time. Also, labor was cheap and I doubt that money was spent on paint or wood preservative as these tracks weren't usually intended as long-term facilities. When the track was no longer a profitable enterprise, the wood and land could easily be repurposed.
Geeeez, Someone actually thought it was ok to make humor out of someone being lynched? Probably didn'tgo out of business fast enough though.
This was In N Out before it became Bobs Beef Burger. It is located in Arcadia, CA On Huntington Dr. My first apartment was right next door. Had a lot of bergers there.
Man!, look at how nice that place was back then. It's still around put look'n warn out just like the neighborhood. Heck, there's even gr*** in the photo. It's my understanding that it's owned by the movie studios now.
I grew up around there, this picture isn't that old, the Cafe was "The Pink Cafe" and was renamed "Cadillac Jacks" around 1990, back then a guy named Monty owned the cafe and motel and a bunch of restored older cars he would rent to the studio along with the motel and cafe....... been a few years since I was around there but I believe he still owns them http://www.roadsidepeek.com/roadusa/southwest/california/socal/socaleats/socaldiner/index.htm
1320G***ER, I had a chance to read everything before the edit's. Special ED, still a great shot of a 1940's LA Hotel, truely a part of LA's history. We all need to be happy it's around and places like it as well. Small details mean nothing.
small details ? being off 25+ years on the date is more than a small detail if you ask me..... I edited and deleted the other posts so it didn't come off as an arguement..... just want to keep as much of the facts correct as possible for those that don't know them...
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