In 1983, just back from a semester in Manhattan, NY, I started riding the RTD (Rapid Transit District the bus system name back then) to get to my various jobs all over L.A. working for a small general contractor. We were remodeling a house in Beachwood Canyon above Hollywood Blvd. and below the SIGN. I lived at the west end of the San Fernando Valley at the end of Sherman Way. This was the end of the route and the buses started their run to Hollywood from there. I would take the 6:15 AM express that would haul a** east on Sherman Way across the floor of the Valley then turn right and make its way to the Cahuenga Pass, on down to Highland with a left on Hollywood Blvd. With a transfer I would get off at LEE'S Drug Store and have breakfast at the counter then hop on the next bus with my transfer and use the transfer again to the bus up Beachwood. Total trip time with breakfast, 1 hour and twenty minutes.
Mazooma, thanks for the Arboretum photos, used to take wife and daughter there 40 years ago when we lived in Sierra Madre, a short ride away. I went to school with both of Lucky Baldwin's grandsons in Pasadena, grandpa's genes lived on in both of them, both now deceased....
A) It's Socal-why not? B) He's going shopping for shoes. C) He's the inspiration for Paul McCartney's barefoot stroll on the cover of "Abbey Road". Quick, somebody photoshop the guy into the album cover...
'cause he's a Surfer. Check out the accessory Knockoffs on the Bird's chrome wheels. That was a huge custom fad in the early 60's, but I haven't seen them turn up on any "revivalist" cars on here in any numbers yet. Had 'em on my '55 Chev in high school, 1962.
Great finding that, figuring the 49 Ford probably came out late 48 and the 50 came out late 49 the movie just might be taken in the forties.
I lived in that area in the early to mid 80's with my wife. She was a life long Echo Park resident. And yes, the burritos are great. Just a few blocks west is Tiki-Thai, a great place to take a woman and introduce her to rum.
Looks to be a Surfer dude type but, Paul McCartnery noticed the pic and used that idea a few years later ...lol
Back in the 1960s someone published a series of yearly books called "Just One More", that I think were filled full of photos taken by Los Angeles Times staff photographers. These books were outstanding because it showed Los Angeles from its less-than-perfect side with a lot of crime scene, accident, and police and fire situations. I saw these books at a library in the mid-1970s. Again, the best word to describe the books is "Outstanding!"
Cool Tom, what a great addition to this thread some of these photos would, no doubt, make. Quick search, came up with this hardcopy for $25 plus shipping: Title: JUST ONE MORE! 1969 Annual Los Angeles Press... Publisher: Los Angeles Photographers Association Publication Date: 1969 Binding: Hard Cover Book Condition: Near Fine
My contibution - some are duplicates most are in color, worth checking out. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/g_cliser/sets/72157625895927403/
Also on the internet is the 1961 "Just One More!" annual at Aardwolf Fine Books in Van Nuys. 113 pages. Very much a trip down memory lane looking at these books.
We lived in the desert, 130 miles east of L.A. but growing up we watched the snowy L.A. channels we got on our antenna. Dick Lane, who has been mentioned before, announced all the sports stuff for KTLA. There were some other TV personalities we watched as well. Here's a few, maybe you can name some more:
Documentary web series on racing & innovation in Los Angeles is now online: Where They Raced: Speed Demons in the City of Angeles. www.wheretheyraced.com Not sure how to embed it here.
Nice work Harry! Great addition to this thread y'all. Harry has directed a series of documentary short films about racing in L.A. First one is available starting today at the link above, only 10 minutes long. He'll make the next one in the series available each week.
I found a more recent picture of Earl Wade... seems he passed away last year. http://www.ls1gto.com/forums/showthread.php?t=441821
Biltmore Hotel and Pershing Square, 1950...my father took us to Pershing Square once during the '50s, it was free speech for anyone, and lots of pretty weird people gathered there to shout out religions, political, etc messages...one guy was advocating communism and a bunch of sailors threw him in the pool there
Site of the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 1949...(no, I know it's not Los Angeles)...the parking lot would become the site of the Pomona Drag Strip a couple of years later...
Captioned "beauty contest in Pershing Square, 1942...apparently the contest was to raise money through war bond sales, note the B-25 bomber in the background...
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