Well, I've been here, next to Pasadena (Sierra Madre), all 61 years...18 miles from downtown El Lay, and I'm here for good. Yesterday was 91 and blue skies and today at 10:30AM it's 78. We get real spoiled here. 75-80 degree Christmases, 30 minutes to Pomona for NHRA, L.A. Roadster Show, and the Grand National Roadster Show, 75 minutes to El Mirage Dry Lakes and the Mojave Desert, 1 hour to the beaches, 45 minutes to the Petersen Museum or Hollywood Bowl..... car stuff virtually everyday.....sometimes I choose to stay home and just gaze at the mountains...we are at the base of Mt. Wilson. This was shot while visiting friends about ten minutes from here during Christmas. Blue sky and palm trees,.... that's Christmas for me since 1950
Yes it is a sad state of affairs that we are in today - with people being over weight and it being the norm vs. the exception. These old photos show what we should look like. I am a car guy through and through but fitness pays the bills for my household. It is a real shame to see us as a society loosing it. Now a days if you are more fit and skinny you are the exception.
Back when those "old photos" were taken, there was no diet soda, no "low fat" or so-called "healty diets" People drank sodas with real cane sugar. They ate food made with high fat lard and plenty of red meat and few people were into fitness. They drank and smoked.
The whole freakin' place is like Disneyland, isn't it? It's like living in a theme park with its own elected mayor and city council and a fire department and post offices and everything! And this is actually a picture of you cruising down your driveway leaving your house. 'Fess up; it is, isn't it???
And don't forget to tell them that this pic was taken across the street from the Balian (ICE CREAM) mansion- This place is incredible at night! Juicy G. (Johnny G.), It depends on what time one hits Tommy's R&B. It never takes em more than what it takes to get your order out to be served. The other locations defintely are not on the speed train that R&P is.
Your probably right. The latest in recent times to the R&B location was around 10p.m.. The Broilers should do a Midnight run sometime.
The store was Bill's liquor Store. I used to be a delivery 'boy' there in the 50's. Driving a VW commercial van for our deliveries. On the other corner (NW) was Bill's Texaco (no relationship) and I worked there when I wasn't working at the other Bill's or going to school (Mira Costa HS) There was a Chevron station on the NE corner of that intersection.
My Dad took me to the Original Tommy's when I was kicking shins and I've done the same with my boy. Tommy's is FINALLY down in San Diego now too! I've been poppin' all the outta- staters' cherries at work with this awesomeness! The Texan's like to claim Whataburger and Sonic's though but they just like to argue because they're from Texas...and then they mutter something about the Alamo.
I lets not forget "FATBURGER" Here are some photos (not mine) of places I remember growing up in West L.A. Pan Pacific: gone Ketchies Stand: gone was on Russels Service corner Helms Bakery: still in Culver City on Venice blvd Russels Service: gone was on Sawtelle and La Grange Tail of the Pup, currently the building is in storage Picks Restaurant: gone was on Santa Monica & Brockton Big Donut: still in Gardena on Marine & Crenshaw Let keep this tread going !!!!!
A few car club plaques from the Valley. Imagine just how many car clubs there were ALL over the Los Angeles area?
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