Photo of Eddie Cochran and friends with Eddie's Ford wagon, taken outside his Bell Gardens home in 1957 looking east down Priory Street. It's a car park now.... the house was on the corner of this tee junction from what I can gather. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.9646,-118.167779&spn=0.000486,0.001015&t=h&z=20
The guy who is leaning against the wing of the Ford next to Eddie says it was 1957 on his own website........ But, yes, looking at the car, you're right, it's a '59 Ford, so I guess he's mistaken about the year.... more likely late '58 then, as he says Eddie bought the wagon for touring, and it was the only car he ever owned.
Anyone remember the name of the Lincoln Mercury dealer that was in Van Nuys in 1964? I found one of my Comets was bought new there and wanted to do a little reasearch.
If you look at my avatar it's at Irwindale - I've still got round win tickets from there - if I remember right you could turn in 10 of them for a cheeseburger. God it was great growing up in SoCal!!!!
The one I dated in 1963 was 23 and a stone cold fox. Met her as she was finish her run at the body shop on sunset blvd.
wow these pics really take me back i was born and bred in long beach born in 52 i remember alot of these places we also went to gardena and ascot for the jalopy races and lions for the dragracing i worked for c.j. hart at lions doin the time slips until 71 when steve evans took over mazooma we probably sat in the same row on the tower side at lions when i wasnt working therealot of memories here thanks for all the pictures
Hi, pretty new to posting on these boards... been a lurker for months.... I am producer at KCET - PBS in L.A. and am working on a documentary film based on the Harold Osmer book WHERE THEY RACED. Its all about the lost racing venues, backyard tinkerers and larger than life characters that made sunny Southern California a motorsports mecca. From the very earliest days thru Santa Monica road races, Legion Ascot, the board tracks, Gilmore, Lions, Carrell, Paramount Ranch.... and more... We have already shot interviews with Richard Parks (son of Wally), Chuck Griffith (ran Pomona Drag for 19 years), Greg Sharp (NHRA Museum), Judy Thompson Creach (Mickey's ex-wife), Danny Thompson (Mickey's son), Tom Malloy (his father built Carrell Speedway) and Harold Osmer (he wrote the book)... I am ALWAYS looking for more photos and or home movies of all these tracks - the earlier the better. Please check out www.wheretheyraced.com for more info or email me at info@wheretheyraced.com if you have any materials that might help us tell the story of this history, or think you might be able to help me 'curate' this thread looking for the right phtos.
Bitchin'! Y'know this concept could be applied nation wide too. Lots of similar history waiting to be dug up. New Speedvision series?
My mom grew up in the Willowbrook area and was 8 when this happened, said Long Beach High School was almost competely collapsed
Culver City Board Track... well JUST after the track. They are grading the streets. The big building in front are MGM studios - now Sony. I found this photo for a film I am working on - more info here: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=548965
Neat, in a satellite image you can still see how the water jogged around it. Must have been just inside Keystone and Jasmine.
Pic 1360 "The Hardrock Cafe" the sign used to say "A working mans bar"I had a couple of drinks in there they had a rough assed wood floor and bar- now its a small store across the street from LAPD Central Station still the same ol' skid row types there but no where as bad as back in the day
Wow I remember my Mom bugged my dad for a shelter until that Twilight Zone episode about the bomb shelter then she lit up a cig and said awww screw it
Times change..Even 226 S. Main is not the same. Always makes me wonder if the Hardrock made any money for the upscale social people using their name.
Yep in the 50,s as kids we used to go all over LA with a pocketful of change. As a young Santa Fe locomotive fireman sometimes we went to the Pacific Electric freight yards to pickup some freight cars, they had a pretty big freight business back then. Also we went downtown LA thru some creepy old streets n alleys at night to deliver and PU freight cars in the heart of old LA. I got to run the loco on what they called 'the redlands loop' when i worked out of San Berdoo it was the old PE lines till Santa Fe bought them.
prob not them "lofties" like you said are eating out on the sidewalk where the all nite sex movie houses used to be- man that is some change-I sent you a pm btw
Born in Long Beach, 1954 Long Beach Community Hosp. I remember Signal Hill and the Little Bit of Italy Restaurant, my folks used to go there a lot, moved to Santa Ana in 62, used to walk to Huntington Bch down Brookhurst and Beach Blvc(Hwy 39) collect pop bottles and cash em in to buy food at the taco bell just down from the Golden Bear,, ahh memories
My Dad was also in Long Beach on that day and spoke of it often when he was alive. Any old timer's remember a place called Insel's Garage in L.A.? This would have been around in the 20's, 30's, maybe 40's. My Dad spoke of it a lot. I'm not sure about the spelling of Insel's but that what it sounds like.
Going to repeat a post from early in the thread, FYI. Get PM and e-mail requests for photo rights. Own nothing, simply searched for all this online. And you can add this: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/index.htm
Just outside of LA, but here is the Corona Circle (aka Grand Blvd) as it was in 1914 with #7-Richenbacher, #14-Oldfield, #4-Pullen and #19-O'Donnell. You can still take a lap today, its just west of the 91 & 15 interchange. There is a plaque commemorating the history of the track by the library, and if you are obsessive you can find the palm tree that has a scar left behind by a loose wheel that crashed into it almost 100 years ago! click to enlarge
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