Let's see your car in front of...............

My 52 in front of the ocean.

 

The Varsity Restaurant down town Atlanta open 1928

 

Kool Garage just down the road

 

in front of the beach at Lake Michigan in Indiana Dunes state park

 

in front of the Mug & Bun in Indy probably the best onion rings I have ever ate

 

in front of a bunch of other roadsters at the roadster roundup Alton ILL

 

in front of a nice sunset

 

in front of the Port Drive In .darn they were closed

 

Hello,

In the days of early car shows in Los Angeles, some of the biggest ones were not at the LA Sports Arena. They were down the street at the historic Shrine Exposition Hall compound. The Exposition Hall was built for convention displays, art shows, a large flat floor for displaying custom cars and hot rods as well as drag race/Bonneville cars. Then in the later years, my son and I went to several comic book shows that were deemed one of the largest on the West coast.
The Shrine Exposition Hall is around the corner from the massive Auditorium. For as many people that filled the Exposition Hall, it never seemed crowded, car shows or comic book shows. But, it did take a long time from opening to the late afternoon to finish the shows.

But, what about rock concert venues? The Sports Arena was huge and originally held the L.A. Lakers from Minnesota. Over time, when the season was over, it needed something to fill up the arena. Even during the season, a venue was necessary for the exploding rock music touring scene.


So, the nearby Shrine Exposition Hall was used and was ok. But, the next door attached building, the Shrine Auditorium was used for things like the Academy Awards Oscar presentations and TV Emmy Awards shows called the place home. The interior was fully insulated for quality sound and comfortable seating with sights all pointed to the stage.

During one of the pro basketball season time periods, we went to a much anticipated rock music event in the Shrine Auditorium. We had seen the advertisements posted on telephone poles all over So Cal.
We liked the poster so much that we bought a real, thick paper poster from a local record shop in Belmont Shore. It got attached to a wall in our apartment. It is now somewhere in the storage attic files for safe keeping.

Jnaki

My wife and I happened to be at a party where a friend mentioned rock concerts. He had just gotten a job as a promotion/backstage rep for a big name concert promoter in the rock music scene. When we asked if he knew anything about the concert coming up at the Shrine Auditorium in February of 1968, he said that he could get us into the event. No worries… his words: “Just show up at the door and I will get you guys into the event…” We were happy at that bit of information, agreed, and went on with the late evening party action.

We were leery about the show and did not take the record shop owner’s offer of two tickets to the event. A word is as good as gold… so the old saying goes… On the day of the event, we drove up to Los Angeles early to get situated and perhaps a good parking place.
1968 Shrine Auditorium parking lot + venue structure...

As we were walking around the neighborhood, since we were a little early, I took this photo across the huge lot at the massive architecture of the Shrine Auditorium. The red El Camino is parked out in front of the massive building.
Your car in front of…

Yes, we finally got inside of the auditorium at the last minute. We had been standing around since the doors were opened and waited with anxious moments, as everyone in line moved inside. Our friend finally came out of a side door and told us not to worry.

Anxiety over and it was going to actually happen… He led to our seats in front of the packet auditorium. It was as if we were “stars” getting their private seats, which were in the stage level balcony, just steps away from the performers… including Jimi Hendrix. Lucky us…!

 

In front of work. Not very sexy, but muy importante...

 

in front of Vic's Cafe- dive bar they're closed all week very disappointing. decided to eat White Castles .out for the first real test drive made it home

 

My speedster in front of a twin engine D 18 S BEECHCRAFT , used by the RCMP (Mounties ) from 1947 till 1970 …

 

The El Caballo in front of a MB 300SL at Laguna Seca !!

 

My wife's '56 Ford in front of a wind farm.....

 

My wife's '36 "Short Top" in front of Wilhelms shop. At the time it was Joe's shop truck, sporting a 324 Olds and LaSalle tranny....

 

in front of the birds of flight metal sculptures

 

in front of a mayberry squad car got my wife to play along[

 

in front of THE BARREL OF FUN

 

Yesterday in front of Seven Springs Lake

 

In Front Of My Former Employer Now Retired For 15 years...

 

A galaxie is a very rare police car in real life..but custom 500 is more like it.
64 someone ordered something 30-50 64 fords with heavy duty options somewhere south/mid america and there started riot or civil war and we finns got whole shipment full of nice heavy duty american fords.
This story is a true and legend here.

 

in front of the FROSTOP root beer stand Tell City IN open last year looks closed for good

 

in front of the big dipper Owensboro KY

 

You did get me here, I thought it a pic from some Middle eastern country and said to myself "that jnaki was everywhere!"

Nothing exotic on my end, this is somewhere in Lower Austria...

 

Damn Ernie! That's cool!!!

 

The San Juan range, Ouray CO

 

Hello T,

It was the time to travel as my wife and I made a pact. We marry, have the marriage fun times and travel as much as we can before responsibilities pop up. So, we traveled all over So Cal and then the Virgin Islands, Hawaii and finally made it to a 40 day vacation of the Grand Tour of Europe. (including Salzburg) We were still young enough to make the trek, all over the place and still feel excellent. But, we are home bodies in So Cal most of the time and used to travel to the PNW once a year. So we love to travel.

The Shrine Auditorium and attached Exposition Hall are still around. It is next door to the USC university campus and the Los Angeles Coliseum/Museum/Exposition building in one giant location. It will be the center piece of the 2028 Summer Olympics, again. The old Sports Arena where the Lakers first came from Minneapolis and played until they got their own arena, is now gone. So, no more L.A. Car Shows there.

Jnaki

So Cal is a great place to grow up in certain areas. We have lived here since the 40s and my wife has lived here off and on since the 50s. We are locked in place, but it is a good place near the ocean for our daily lives. Our immediate family is nearby and extended family a 30 minute drive away. YRMV