"Douglas Aircraft Company workers bow in silent prayer during lunch, June 6, 1944." (D-Day)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/jzukIZ.jpg
http://framework.latimes.com/2014/06...os-angeles/#/7

I'm curious about the house on the hillside (in the distance, upper left)


here's my blurry enlargement.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/MJoxg7.jpgdetail

but there aren't too many hills in Santa Monica, especially near the Douglas Plant.

I'm stumped.

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This 5 x 7 glass negative was listed on ebay several months ago.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/NFC9Xj.jpg

"Emmet M. Hicks Feed & Fuel Co., Gardena Calif. [no date]




Here's the positive image, enlarged. (sorry the top is cropped off)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/X3u3K0.jpg

There's no date, but I'd guess about 1900s(?)

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I believe those are fake houses on the roof of the factory....''camouflage".

That's a nice Photo of the employees of Douglas Aircraft Co. and on D day no less.

https://preview.ibb.co/huFdmk/Castel...os_Angeles.jpg

Castelar Street School Los Angeles 1925. Rare photo of this school taken by my Pop. Negative from family photos -North Broadway Area.

Camera pointing west on Castelar Street. Building located on corner of Castelar St. and College St.- Address 508 College St.


https://preview.ibb.co/edQYK5/1921_J...D_GRADE_A3.jpg

Dad's report card from Castelar school in 1921.

:previous: Another great photograph! Thanks so much for sharing them with us Downtownkid.



A quick glimpse of the Long Beach Pike in under a minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcNdCh-n7-k




I saved a screengrab, or two.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/BxHA3h.jpg



At .46 seconds there's a little shack surrounded by an audience.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/7Na2zm.jpg

For the life of me I can not figure out what the people are watching. (it looks like two cans are hanging from string)

And written directly on the shack is " America's Greatest something or other."

Can anyone make out the third word?

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Same place in your brain, basically. :)

The new cartoon was really quite good, with good writing and top voice talent and animation. My son was a bronie (though I think he has more or less outgrown it) and in fact my entire family went to a pony convention a couple years back, in Anaheim. A good time was had by all.

If it helps, you can link these two things in your brain using John de Lancie, who appeared in Star Trek as Q and also in My Little Pony as a character called Discord... which was directly inspired by Q. :haha:

OK, off-topic post over, sorry everyone!

If that's the long beach plant there is no hill there. It would be camouflage. There were nets place over aircraft plants in Los Angeles during the war with fake houses on top of them.

YouTube on the camouflage on Lockheed's plant



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgFJKtznKMo

America's Greatest Institution For Learning-- nt too diff to suss out...

I don't know about the house, e_r, but some of the people in your photo may have seen the Los Angeles Times that day.

Grandpa Wedge saved this (also VJ Day). It was folded up for a long time, but now it's flattened out in a frame:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original

FW Photo

The photo of Marilyn Monroe in the bathing suit was not taken at the Beverly Hills Hotel. It was taken at the home of Johnny Hyde on N. Palm drive in 1950.

My last was in regards to page 441. sorry.

Wow. Swell post. Thanks.

Treasure trove. Thanks.

Yes, thank you Downtownkid, beautiful photo. And the date on your father's report card is the date of my Mom's birthday!

On the report card: "Manual Training." Wonder what that entailed?
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Loved that short video, too, E_R. I made the mistake of looking at the comments, though. There's an awful lot of ugliness in the comments. Ugh.

Also liked the Douglas Aircraft photo, E_R.

I wouldn't mind seeing the VJ Day paper, too, FW, if possible!

Emmet Mc Donald Hicks was born in California March of 1869. He appears in a 1914 directory as the owner of Gardena Feed and Fuel, which was located 736 W. 166th Street. It appears from Google maps that the location is no longer there. He and his wife Hattie had been living in Santa Barbara in 1900 where Emmet was listed as being a farmer.

in the 1920 census as the manager of a feed and fuel store in Los Angeles. The census indicates that he lived at 1910 w. 47th street with his wife Hattie and daughter Vera.

In a 1922 voter registration they appear , living at 522 N. Maryland. This was probably in Glendale and is no longer there. At that time, Emmet is listed as an independent salesman. He died in 1934 and is buried in Forest Lawn Glendale along with Hattie, who died in 1969.

Curiously enough, there's an Emma Hicks also born in California in 1869, the daughter of John D. Hicks, Angeleno tinware dealer and hardware man, perhaps best known for dealing out rope to customers desiring same during the Chinese Massacre. He had moved to Fresno by 1889.

http://www.califaztlan.org/LANoirPics/workman1.jpg
http://www.califaztlan.org/wp-conten..._Trees_web.jpg

I just got word from a city official stating that the trees are not the same ones in the photo with Boyle, but that they are only 50-60 years old. The species identified is the Silk Oak (Grevillea robusta) which is a native of Australia.

I am still on the quest to try to find images of Boyle Avenue dating back to the 1950s or prior to confirm this.

Just to clarify, they are claiming that the trees in the 1900 photo appear conical in the image, while the Silk Oak species is clearly not conical. I am writing them back to ask them if they have any actual record of these trees as being planted in the 1950s, or if this is just speculation based on the photo I provided them.

Here is Boyle Avenue from First to Fourth in 1941, 1960, and 1971. I hope these photos will be helpful to you, GatoVerde.

August 1, 1941 -- Boyle runs diagonally from lower left to upper right. First Street is at lower left, with Fourth at upper right:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original

Flight c-7334_118 @ UCSB


May 1, 1960 -- Boyle runs parallel to and above the freeway:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original

Flight c-23870_1658 @ UCSB


March 1, 1971:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original

Flight tg-2755_17-41 @ UCSB