Aerial view looking east towards the intersection of La Cienega and Olympic Boulevards at the border of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, 1924. Wilshire Boulevard is running along the upper left portion. Carthay Circle is visible along with oil derricks in the distance. At this time, La Cienega stopped at Olympic (then called Country Club Drive) and picked up again at Gregory Way. Source: LAPL
Looking northeast from Ronda Vista Drive in the Franklin Hills neighborhood of Los Feliz, ca. 1938. Visible are: Tracy Street (foreground), Hyperion Avenue (running lower right to upper center left), Silver Lake, Atwater Village, Glendale (the Tower of Legends at Forest Lawn Memorial Park is faintly visible, right of upper center), and the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance. Due to trees, the Disney Hyperion Studio (left of center) is not visible. Photo by Herman Schultheis. Source: LAPL
Aerial view of Hollywood showing a residential neighborhood and Cheremoya Avenue Elementary School (center). The school is located at 6017 Franklin Avenue, the palm-lined street in the foreground. Cheremoya Avenue located to the east of the school is visible in the center of the image and Beachwood Avenue is seen on the far left. Photo dated: June 1925. Source: LAPL
Windmill of Van de Kamp's Bakery and Coffee Shop with Drive-In service, located on the corner of Fletcher Drive and San Fernando Road in Atwater, ca. 1945. Source: LAPL Its architect was Wayne McAllister, using Streamline Moderne style with neon trimmed rooflines and pylon.
Photo shows the new Firestone Store which opened in West Los Angeles at the corner of Pico Boulevard and Selby Avenue. It will serve residents of the Westwood-Rancho community development with home appliances and auto needs. Photo dated: June 21, 1952. Source: LAPL
The Bixby house was located at 138 North Hill Street, Bunker Hill, 1928. It was later known as the Harmonia Apartments. The two-story residence has two-story bay windows and a wrap-around porch. Source: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Lifted from F'book. credit given to content creator. Sometimes seemingly uninteresting photographs can reveal surprising treasures if you look long enough. When this collection was processed a few years ago, this photograph was looked at a little closer. Zooming in, barely legible on the top of the door, is a name spelled out in what appears to be white tape, "J. R. Streeter," perhaps the young man seen driving the car. After considerable research, staff reached out to a man we thought might be Streeter’s son. He informed us that his father was alive and well at the age of 90 and would love to speak with us. The next day we conducted a telephone interview. He told us that the car was a 1936 Ford Club Coupe he'd bought at a federal government auction for $75. The car had been seized in a raid after being used to run moonshine. Naturally, the engine had been souped-up for its life of crime—perfect for racing. And race, he did. Streeters' first race was an outlaw (non-NASCAR) race in Danville, Virginia. After the long slog from Raleigh, he arrived to a pre-race inspection where officials informed him that he couldn’t enter due to the car’s lack of seat belts. Being an industrious and determined young man, he found a nearby aviation scrapyard and salvaged a few straps and buckles, bolted them in and drove back to the track. Cleared for racing, he had officials announce over the intercom that “he might need a ride back to Raleigh if he smashed up his car too much.” Two Duke students agreed to help him if he needed a ride. Streeter not only finished the race, but he also kept his car intact and drove it all the way back to Raleigh. Impressed by Streeter’s driving, the Duke students called him up a few weeks later and asked him to drive their racecar at the next event. He remembers racing alongside Ralph Earnhardt (Dale Earnhardt’s father), Bill France, and Lee Petty (Richard Petty’s father). A young Richard Petty played in the pits with the son of Bill France and absorbed everything around him--later to become a legend himself. Streeter continued to race for several years before giving it up to focus on work and family, but he told us it was a lot of fun. _____________________ PhC_145_Bx2_F6_09 From the Archie and Vallie Henderson Photograph Collection, State Archives of NC.
Along the same lines as the 37-38 stock car photo & the Streeter thread, my father build a 38 sedan & a friend drove it at the high bank Grandview track in Bellevue Ne. during the 1951 -52 seasons, licensed & equipped with bolt on tractor lights & windshield it was legally driven the 3 miles to & from the race venue
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