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I'm surprised the little house on Hancock and the two larger houses facing Broadway have survived since they're practically surounded by commercial real estate.


You can barely see the homes facing Broadway.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/joSmAn.jpg


The best view is from Hancock St.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DSa6Sj.jpg

They look like rental properties.

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Take a look at this slide with the car carrier passing the Palladium.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/jhVOPi.jpg
eBay

The seller says it was taken in 1951. Do you think that's right judging by cars?


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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/uDAilU.jpg

Thanks for the follow-up on the Ye Bull Pen sign snapshot, Godzilla.

J. H. Graham explains how the rooftop sign on Hope St. ended up on top of the Hula Hut at 8204 Beverly Blvd.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/2QEsl4.jpg
J. H. Graham


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/e9bPzL.jpg



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https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds

This is an Alfred Eisenstaedt photo for the May 3 1937 issue of Life Magazine.....


....the women are standing on the southeast corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga....

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds


.....the woman in the middle is possibly actress Mary Wickes....

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds

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It does look like Mary Wickes. The one on the right looks familiar, too, though I don't have a name.

If there's a definitive database of acts that played the Palladium, I can't locate it, but I did find notes that Ray Anthony played there in November of 1950 and
November of 1953 as well. Ray Anthony has an album titled Live at the Palladium that was recorded November 10, 1950. NBC also recorded Ray Anthony and
His Orchestra playing live for their All Star Parade of Bands series, November 23, 1953.

I don't know about the cars!

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The white car with the black roof looks like a 1951 Chevy Bel Air.

Then I guess this must be on or about November 10, 1950. The car carrier has a Chevy logo on it and the other cars also appear to be 1951 Chevys.

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I happened upon this unique item on eBay earlier today.


Seller's description:..Antique, Dept. of Water & Power. Southern California. Embossed Red Globe.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/0S3S4t.jpg
eBay

What would have this been used for? Was it intended for a lantern. :shrug:



There is also a Soo-Line (RR) Red Globe that is nearly three times the price, HERE

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A Railway Lantern Globe
 

A subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway that still operates in Minnesota is the Duluth Winnipeg and Pacific Railway.

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Thanks for the clarification, Engineeral.



I bet this book is a real hoot. (published in 1959)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/PDcbM1.jpg
Currently on eBay


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/AeWBN5.jpg
eBay

"Buggsy" ..:stunned:



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This cabinet card is also on eBay


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/dVilia.jpg
eBay


Did someone notable live on the corner of Figueroa and Jefferson Streets?

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Here is a link to the USC Digital Library's copy of the ebay photo, dated c. 1885.


Below is a view of the same house, dated 1886:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...6565_USCDL.jpg

UC116565 @ USC Digital Library

USC says:

"Photograph of the residence of John Graff (an early Los Angeles pioneer) on the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street, 1886. Later the home of
Ana B. Packman. This two-story adobe known as "Casa Figueroa" may have been built by Ramon Figueroa in the early 1850s. Gable roofs and dormer windows
have altered the original architecture. A wooden rail runs around the perimeter of the covered porch upon which sit four chairs. View is across the lawn through
palms and other plants. Roses cover most of the porch roof."



I think this is the same place. Fires in 1926 and 1945 (per LADBS records) could account for the house's changed appearance, although the right-hand dormer
seems unaltered:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...79_at_LAPL.jpg

00078979 @ LA Public Library

Here's what LAPL says about the house and photo:

"Exterior view of the Casa Figueroa adobe on Jefferson Boulevard, at the corner of Figueroa Street, which stood among pepper and palm trees. In this photo,
Mrs. Ana Begue de Packman stands at the doorway holding a fan in her right hand, and her skirt with her left. Verso on photograph states that the building
was used as a museum by the Southern California Historical Society at this time. Photograph dated: April 1936."

"The Figueroa Adobe, located at 3404 S. Figueroa St, was built in 1846 by Ramon Figueroa - brother of the 1833 Mexican Governor of California, Jose Figueroa.
In 1886 it became the home of John Graff; in 1890 it was taken on as a remodeling project by architect Sumner P. Hunt; and years later, C. C. Thenes became
the owner of the home. Eventually, the house was occupied by a great-granddaughter of a Spanish soldier who accompanied Governor Felipe de Neve on the
march from San Gabriel Mission to found Los Angeles in 1781."


Here's a similar photo dated 1938:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...8_at_Autry.jpg

P.15678 @ Autry Museum


LATE EDIT: For more on Casa Figueroa and Ana Begue de Packman, go HERE.

LATE, LATE EDIT: Information about the Figueroas mentioned in the above photo captions is in Odinthor's post HERE.

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Such a fantastic post, Flyingwedge. :worship: Thank you so much.


Per the link you provided.

Here is the adobe layout in 1909.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/CNNB8I.jpg
lavenueproject


And in 1955.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SJqbOO.jpg
lavenueproject




A closer look. (1955)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/y7be9U.jpg
lavenueproject

Auto sales and a service station.


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I've checked past posts and I am almost certain we haven't see the Huber residence.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Dq8PT9.jpg
Recently found on eBay.




A super-duper look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/vk82bX.jpg

It's a joy to see so many children (and a dog!) in a stereo view.


I need some help with what is written on the back. Is the letter preceding Huber. .squints eyes . .an R? . .a B? . . or D.L.? :shrug:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/L7a8jB.jpg


The only thing missing is the street address.


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We have had several posts over the years on the interesting early Angeleno Conrad Hafen and the two Hafen Houses. Newmark gives us a quick summary on Mr. Hafen: “Conrad Hafen, a German-Swiss, reached Los Angeles in December, 1868, driving a six-horse team and battered wagon with which he had braved the privations of Death Valley; and soon he rented a little vineyard, two years later buying for the same purpose considerable acreage on what is now Central Avenue. Rewarded for his husbandry with some affluence, Hafen built both the old Hafen House and the new on South Hill Street, once a favorite resort for German arrivals. He retired in 1905” (end of Chapter 25 in his Sixty Years in Southern California). He died in 1910, and “is survived by one son and two daughters, Louis Hafen, Mrs. Eliza Price and Mrs. Jacob Dieterich, all of Los Angeles, together with eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren” (L.A. Herald, November 1, 1910).

There is also, at one remove, a noirish shadow in this. Son-in-law Jacob Dieterich, (“born 1867, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany. […] 1887, came to America and directly to Los Angeles, where a year was spent as a florist and landscape gardener. This was followed by being in charge of the O.W. Childs firm for a year. In 1892, he opened his [horticultural shop at] 1142–1146 Wall St. 1893, residing at 422 E. 12th St.” (book Roll-Call, by B.C. Dickerson, 2024, p. 125). The residence was just around the corner from the shop. In 1897, he had something of an adventure at the shop. One John McManus, at 1145 San Julian, just behind Dieterich’s shop, who “has engaged somewhat in the occupation of grubbing out trees. He removed the big pepper trees at Eighth and Spring streeets, where the new armory building is being erected” (from edited-out portion of article below), was trying to split some logs into kindling, using “giant powder” (which I take it is dynamite). I excerpt from an article:

https://i.postimg.cc/vHzdFkxM/Dieter...-1897-9-11.jpg
LA Times, 9/11/1897

But, back to focusing on Dieterich. On December 5, 1926, his affairs came to a violent end. We take up the story following the article’s introductory paragraphs:

https://i.postimg.cc/0NhT0qFG/Dieter...-1926-12-7.jpg
LA Times, 12/7/1926

I cannot find that the guilty parties were ever apprehended.

Strange to say, the J. Huber family, from the post of e_r, two above, and Mr. Dieterich, of my post above, are connected via O.W. Childs (he of the Opera House and Horticulture), Dieterich having been employed by Childs, and the Hubers coming into it via the marriage of O.W. Childs to Emeline Huber, the daughter of Joseph Huber Sr., and sister of he who is presumably the J. Huber of the residence in the stereograph. The somewhat elaborate look of the garden is doubtless owing to the convenience of having a successful horticulturist such as Mr. Childs as one's relative. In 1878, Joseph Jr. was at 220 Main; but it's hard to tell the date of the photo, so the location could be at another address at which the Hubers lived.

Just for a little history: Joseph Sr. had come from Kentucky to Los Angeles in 1855, followed by his family in 1859; they then occupied "the Foster property running from Alameda Street to the river, in a section between Second and Sixth streets" (Newmark, Sixty Years).

LADWP Kersosene lantern globe
 

Yes, this is part of a kerosene lantern used by LADWP likely for warning of hazards rather than for work lighting. They hung red lanterns like this on wooden barricades to warn motorists of hazards before flashing battery lights were invented. (Check out Steve's Vintage Barracade Collection, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yYf78R6S0) Lanterns were more stable than the old smudge pots that were used up to the 1960's thus less likely to roll off the road and create problems Here's a red lantern for sale on ebay. You can see the various parts and how they fit together: https://www.ebay.com/itm/40502409938...90.c101224.m-1

Stereo view
 

What is the purpose of a stereo view photograph ? I don't see it.

You have to view them in a stereoscope:

A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.

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AlvaroLegido, by slightly shaking a stereoview image via a gif you get an idea of the 3 dimensional quality.

Here's an example.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/6732/H3iBXV.gif
People standing by a Ford automobile / location unknown

It's basically the same idea behind the View-Master.

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Ismaelmub, first you have to upload your photographs to a photo hosting site and go from there.

I use imageshack
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Guess what folks. I have a mystery location for this afternoon. :)

I happened upon this slide of a Richfield and Mobil gas station this morning on eBay. I'm pretty sure it's new to NLA.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/nG9Sz7.jpg
eBay

Does this area look familiar to anyone?

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Here's another slide from the same time period.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/GpRobe.jpg
eBay


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Re the above photo with the 2 gas stations, I think this is the curve at Highland and Franklin...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds

....just beneath the canopy of the Richfield station I believe you can see a sliver of the Hughes Market that was at the n.e. corner of Highland/Franklin for many years.

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When I first saw that photo the view felt oh so familiar and you confirmed that with your identification riichkay. With the road that converges there that 2-Way Signal sign is another confirmation.

In that photo, someone has knocked over one of the cones in the road.

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Thanks for figuring out the location of the gas stations, riichkay. I appreciate it. :)


A news photo just popped up on eBay of an aerial ambulance at LA Eastside Airport in 1933.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/hU3KYr.jpg
eBay


Info.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/5MidIa.jpg


But I don't recall any airport between Los Angeles and Whittier. :shrug:

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e_r, here is a 1934 list of the less-known airports of the L.A. area:

https://i.postimg.cc/KjyBdRTJ/Airports-LAT-1934-1-2.jpg
LA Times, 1/2/1934

But then . . .

https://i.postimg.cc/P54HDcKx/Airpor...-1937-3-22.jpg
LA Times, 3/22/1937

Been there done that. This post from bygone times mentions Los Angeles Eastside Airport, shown at the bottom near the intersection of Telegraph Rd. and Church Rd.
But I am confused, because this article lists a similarly-named airport with a different address, 800 E. Whittier Blvd, Montebello:

https://i.postimg.cc/0ywk3XG8/s-l1200-1.webp

eBay

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The last third of this page (link below) deals with Vail Field and, more to our purpose, the nearby Montebello Airport (opened in 1940) at Telegraph Road and Sycamore, which latter airport became known as East Los Angeles Airport, evidently also called Eastside Airport (different from the by-then closed earlier Eastside Airport of the 1930s on Whittier Blvd. mentioned in my earlier posting).

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ca/...htm#montebello

:previous: Hmm. .so there were two named Eastside?

Thanks odinthor and Mackerm. I appreciate your help. (I had obviously forgotten about the earlier post)

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I found on ebay an item related to the Los Angeles Eastside Airport:

1) A copy of The Pilot, March, 1930 publication, which lists the address as 800 East Whittier Blvd. The would place the airport on the SW corner of what is now Whittier and Paramount blvds.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/195707962156

I also found an flight map showing the airport in Montebello as being in between the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel River.

The map is credited as being from August 1933 LA Sectional Aeronautical Chart, and was found on the webpage created by Paul Freeman: "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: California: East Los Angeles Area": http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ca/...E.htm#rosemead

Map:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ca/..._m5a5c78f6.jpg

The airport site is now a shopping mall, but previously it was the Paramount Drive-In Theater, a venue I was fully acquainted with in days past.

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Rare stereoview listed on eBay


1880's Woodhead and Gay store Los Angeles CA stereoview photo, watermelon people

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/s2rePt.jpg
eBay

Now all we need is an address.

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Re: Woodhead and Gay, the 1883 CD shows the business on N. Spring St....


https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds

So many clues, still I could not i.d. this address....I guessed the year as mid-'50s, pulled up the '56 Yellow Pages and ran "AA Auto Sales", "California Style Customs", searched for an auto paint/transmission repair place with an address that started "3401", no luck.

The REpublic telephone exchange was basically downtown, so I used the Central area book.....photo is courtesy jalopyjournal.com.

I like the above photo Riichkay.

H & H Enterprises, Inc., 3401 W. Washington Blvd, L. A., Phone REpublic 5-9311 - August 1957 (link below)

The beautiful black Cadillac parked beneath the 'PA' in PAINTING appears to be a 1954 Cadillac Deville or Series 62.
The Cadillac in the foreground is an enigma. It appears to have a modified 1956 front end, 1957 rear tail fins and 1958 double headlights.

Custom Craft Upholsterers, Inc., now occupies a large two-story masonry building at that location, circa 2009. The building next door (3415 W. Washington Blvd) is a survivor. Compare its architectural features, especially the unusual roof line to the May 2009 Google Street View (Google Maps link below) for confirmation.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0399...5410&entry=ttu

https://www.loc.gov/resource/usteled...,0.455,0.225,0

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Thanks for figuring out the location of Woodhead & Gay, riichkay. :)

Here's an amazing amateur slide losted on eBay.

"1950s Los Angeles California Angels Flight Railway 35mm Kodachrome slide photo"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/cI2TQ7.jpg
eBay


Wow, just wow!

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Great work on the 3401 W. Washington Blvd. i.d. August-Marathon, you have nailed it.

I actually looked at that address, it was the only "3401" under auto body repair in the '56 Yellow Pages....but in that year the phone number was not a match (although a REpublic exchange), that threw me off....as you point out the roofline of the surviving building adjacent is a great clue.

A 1959 building permit has a sketch of the improvements....

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds

I would bet that is an example of some "restyling" done by the skilled craftsmen at California Style Customs.

Before I read what you wrote above under the picture, that's just what I had thought!

Even a Chop Suey sign included!

The eBay seller is in Hawaii!

Wow !
 

Wow ! because it's the first time on NLA (if I remember well) we see the Angels Flight door and the mechanism behind photographed just in front .

The Ferguson of Ferguson Cafe is after the family which owned the lot, that of the late William Ferguson, whose residence was at this location until he built a new home at 8th and Rampart in about 1905 (doubtless it wasn't very pleasant having Angels Flight running immediately adjacent). This is also the Ferguson of Ferguson's Alley in old Chinatown; he was the landowner of parcels in that area (as was Harris Newmark), not necessarily knowing the uses to which the structures there were being put. Relying on my notes: He was born January 20, 1831, in Washington County, Arkansas. After some time gold mining, he came to L.A. in 1868, coming back for good in 1869, when with L.J. Rose he opened a livery stable on Main near the Plaza. By 1872, he was a City Councilman, before long living at 303 S. Hill. Just about the time construction was actually commenced on the long-planned building in the photo, he died (April 9, 1910).

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You're absolutely correct, odinthor.

Here's a glimpse of the Ferguson Home in that spot.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/WgYLSO.jpg

Great information! Kudos :worship:

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Thanks, e_r!

I was curious about Ferguson's new place at 8th and Rampart:

https://i.postimg.cc/fyX5hZfs/Fergus...1905-10-29.jpg
LA Herald, 10/29/1905

https://i.postimg.cc/DykBPJ7w/Fergus...1905-10-29.jpg
LA Herald, 10/29/1905

Ferguson Home @ Third and Hill
 

Thanks, Odinthor, I never knew that was all the same Ferguson.

This is a closeup of the Ferguson home next to Angels Flight (I think we've seen this before; there's a little angel over the
arch at the bottom), c. 1903:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._-_closeup.jpg

1999-0026 @ CA State Library


Here's another look at the Ferguson home, with the Crocker Mansion behind it up on the hill. My notes say this is a c. 1895
William Henry Fletcher photo from the CA State Library, but I can't find it there now:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...Lib_-_1024.jpg



However, the Ferguson home at Third and Hill can also be seen below the Crocker Mansion c. 1890 in photo 2003-0256 at the CA State Library.

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Take a look at the abysmal parking situation at LAX in 1968.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/busY6b.jpg
eBay

I'm reminded of an ADAM 12 episode where Reed and Malloy patrolled the airport on motorbikes. Did that actually happen :shrug: or did I dream it up?

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And here I thought it was just a BAND. (when I was in high school)


REO Speed Wagon.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/grHG5V.jpg
eBay


Info on back
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SG7Rbz.jpg

That's a lot of dirty sheets and pillow cases!


The logo.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/V6dZf1.jpg

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Yes, I saw that episode on cable last year.

To add to earlier posts on this: Just a quick note that, contrary to a notion popular in the early 1900s, Ramon Figueroa was not a brother of California's governor Jose Figueroa. Gov. Figueroa did have a brother (named Francisco), and that brother did live in the greater L.A. area (he succeeded Gov. Figueroa as owner Rancho Los Alamitos, and sold it to Abel Stearns in July, 1842; Francisco was dead by 1856); and what's more Ramon Figueroa did own the adobe in question at Jefferson and Figueroa; but Ramon Figueroa was not related to Gov. Figueroa, and the street was named after the governor, not after Ramon.

Ramon Figueroa (Jose Ramon, to be precise) was a native Angeleno and was baptized April 9, 1806, at Mission San Gabriel (died after 1870, when he's still on the census rolls as a farmer); he did have two brothers: Salvador Ygnacio and Felipe de Jesus. Their father was Manuel Antonio Figueroa, born in Sinaloa ca. 1750, and present in California as a soldier at Mission San Francisco de Asis by July 1777; Manuel died near July 21, 1815, when his obsequies were celebrated at Mission San Gabriel.

Meantime, the Figueroas of which the governor was one were Mexican-born and did not come to California until 1833, after Jose was selected as governor. For those wanting more on him, the best biography of Governor Figueroa in my estimation is that found in the book The Bandini Papers, p. 493, by, um, me.

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Interesting! I just looked it up on Wikipedia:

ADAM-12 "Sub-Station"
Season 4 | Episode 20
Aired: February 16, 1972

Synopsis: Malloy and Reed are assigned to the Los Angeles Airport sub-station.

From the website titled Old Mini Bikes: LINK

Adam-12 on Honda CT90's

https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index...90s.89196/full

https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index...90s.89198/full


From the website titled Lincoln X-ray Ida: My blog about Adam-12 LINK

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1LTSD--L2...0/IMG_4260.PNG

Reed and Malloy with an olive green telephone and interesting airport chairs.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wr4Mj2_g5...0/IMG_4170.PNGhttps://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SBwZQ9acY...0/IMG_4171.PNG

And a color photo similar to the b&w one E_R posted.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Engmnhcox...0/IMG_4098.PNG


There was another episode at the airport:

ADAM-12 "L.A. International"
Season 6 | Episode 23
Aired: March 12, 1974

Synopsis: Malloy and Reed are assigned as vacation fill-in at LA airport. As Zebra-12 they work on foot and motorbikes around LAX, handling an amazing number of crimes. Pete makes time with a shapely blonde supervisor at a ticket counter.