39cent... Back when I was in high school, I ran with a kid whose father worked for Santa Fe. The fathers name was Don Dixon or maybe Dickson, can't remember. He lived in Covina and later moved to Lake Elisinore. I think the kid's brother worked for Santa Fe also and I think his name was Don also. Any chance that you knew them. I'm guess they worked out of San Bernardino yard.
I read this in the LA times, and thought it was pretty cool. It was a tour guide book of all the african american owned businesses etc in LA. Lots of cool jazz and blues places on broadway. some are still there. you can download a pdf of the 1949 edition! It was called "the Green Book" http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/24/local/la-me-0124-tobar-20110124
"This may be the coolest thread ever posted on the HAMB. Awesome!" I totally agree with you that this is the coolest thread ever here in HAMB.
Born in Fresno 1954. Moved to Manhattan Beach in 55. Then moved to Fullerton in 63'. I remember Pancho's in El Porto. Remember going to the Lamar Theatre in Manhattan Beach for movies. Woodies were everywhere....going to the sand dunes with my brother after school. Remember the grunion running....
March 19, 1956. The Pacific-Electric cars being scraped on Terminal Island. Remember the TV show "Rescue-8" from 1958 when some people had to be rescued from this pile? I was 2 years old when I saw that show and it was powerful stuff to watch. Really overpowering.
Do you remember "Clancy's Hamburgers" on PCH at Rosecranes in Manhattan Beach or their other stand on Manhattan Beach Blvd and Hawthorne?
Tom. When I was in the fourth grade at Calimesa Elementary School we took a field trip to the harbor. I saw those cars stacked like firewood on Terminal Island. I also remember the Rescue-8 episode where Jim Davis who played (Wes Cameron) rescued somebody trapped in that stack. Oddly some of those cars were still running at least a year later around Exposition Park.
I recall that show. I was 18. And I saw that pile. The Pacific Electric,red cars, and L.A.Transit System, was world class. Thats how my Mother got around in L.A. With a pocketful of change you could go all over town, and thats a big town. Another thing I remember, were the elecric buses. very quiet, and clean transportation.
This is the best thread EVER. I have spent hours looking thru this more then one time,its like a great book that keeps growing.This is great for those of us that are into history.Thanks to Mazooma 1, Special Ed , Hollywood Graham and everyone else who built this thread.
I have to agree! It's like having 24 hour access to an incredible museum that's always evolving. So nice to get up in the morning and enjoy a cup of coffee while looking at all the amazing images. You never know what you're going to find that day. Thanks to everyone!
Originally, The Citadel outlet center was the famous Samson Tire and Rubber Co., once the largest tire manufacturing plant on the west coast, said to have produced 6,000 tires and 10,000 tubes a day. U.S. Tire and Rubber Co. took over the plant in 1931, then Uniroyal in 1962. The Assyrian style architecture is unusual and the building is a designated landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. UOTE=Johnny Gee;4914297]Couldn't miss it...it was like a huge castle
This is like a scene from my childhood growing up in Sunland/Tujunga! "Johnny, I'm soldering the contacts like you told me...what does the oscilloscope say?!"
Great picture of Pasadena, The "35er" bar (Dirty Diver to locals) is still there today. Great pictures!!
well, for those who don't know or need reminding, come out to Arcadia. east of Pasadena to visit the L.A. County Arboreum http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/explore/our_history/ I grew up two miles southeast of it and for the last 38 years have lived just a little over a mile north of the grounds. For $8 you'll see plants from all over the world, historic structures, see where the Tarzan movies were made along with hundreds and hundreds of movies and TV shows. Parking is free. I went twice just last week to drag around the camera and just sit and take stock of my life. My Dad was born just south of it 1922 and this was wild at the time and the kids used it as their "backyard". In the 50's my mom would drop us kids off for a few hours each weekend so she could go shopping and run errands without all of us bugging her. There was no charge to get in back then. We'd spend the day playing "Hide & Seek" in the 127 acres, but, of course we stuck with "the jungle" part of the property. Here's a few shots from last week. I love sitting here. I live just a mile up at the start of the hillside. The 1890 Santa Fe Station has been moved and is now in the park, open to the public The "Limited" crashed just east of the station right after WWII. Several people died. I have a copy of the police report...two pages...that's it...two pages. Two pages for a crashed train, derailed passenger cars, deaths and the wreckage blocked Route 66 for days and days... Today someone getting s sprained ankle on public property would be ten pages. upstairs is the living quarters for the train master This property was the home of "Lucky" Baldwin, real estate czar, womanizer, gambler, pioneer....he was shot by his 16 year old girlfriend and was married several times and built a casino about a mile east. we played for hours in "the jungle", you never hid in the same place twice... "Da plane da plane" I encourage anyone in the L.A. area to spend some time here with the family. Most all trees and shrubs are labeled so you know what they are and there is a tram to take you around and the driver tells you the history of the joint. There are classes all week about horticulture and hot houses for the huge African plants and ferns. Also, look up "Lucky" Baldwin on Google. He was one of the last of the old fashioned gamblin, horse racin', womanizen' hard partyin' guys... OK, I won't bore you anymore with "Uncle Doug's Photo Adventures", but the Arboretum is a forgotten treasure, just 17 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
i haven't been there a few years! thanks for the reminder, ill take the little lady, she'll love that place! i remember the peacocks everywhere when we were kids!
I just found this shot that my Dad took in 1939 when they were filming "Honeymoon in Bali" with Fred MacMurray in the Arboretum. The boat is a prop put into the lagoon.
And a different angle of my Dad (in uniform) taking delivery of the new fleet of Chevy police cars. The guy in the suit is some salesman from the Chevy dealership. Photo was taken in the Santa Anita Race Track parking lot. The black and white station wagon was one of the first "radar units". The early radar equipment was all vacuum tubes and the stuff took up almost the entire rear of the station wagon.
Great photos - brings thoughts of visiting my uncle who lived in Arcadia. He took me to the arboretum and Santa Anita in '60 or so while I was in college in LA. Also the Huntington Hartford estate I think. Beautiful area for sure.
Huntington Library, probably.....just about three miles southwest of me. The estate of Henry Huntington, bigshot for Southern Pacific Railroad a hundred years ago. Now it's a museum and gardens...in San Marino
Mazooma .... what a great spot for L.A. history,I remember going there for field trips as a kid,now I want to go back as an adult. Great pictures you took.
Some serious L.A. history at this hotel, the last place Miss Short was ever seen alive...Jan,1947.I dont think anything to this day has came close to that.
I feel in love with The Queen Anne Cottage as a kid and when it was time to do my Eagle Scout project I knew exactly what to do... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_Cottage_and_Coach_Barn
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