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'mystery' location
"1957 Kodachrome slide, Los Angeles California Soap Box Race" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/gBeU59.jpg EBAY The hill in the distance (on the left) is somewhat distinctive..I thought perhaps someone might recognize the area. I like the soap box car that looks like an EGG. |
'mystery' location #2
"1940s Los Angeles Street Scene, Original 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Inch Negative" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/9ZwkNq.jpg EBAY The hats the two men are wearing are similar to American Legion hats. (definitely the hat on the man standing up) note the guy in the middle is sitting on an oversized Four Feathers whiskey bottle. (maybe they're going to, or coming from, a convention) the standing man has a camera. I've never heard of Leask's....so maybe the seller is incorrect and this isn't Los Angeles. |
the same ebay seller has this photo as well.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/S98ND1.jpg EBAY note Los Angeles street lights. also California license plate. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/nW26PT.jpg Has anyone heard of 'BOTTOM ROCKERS'? _ |
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MReyerson focused our attention toward street light towers, http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8580 Similar in concept, many cities tried tower lighting, also known as "Moonlight Towers." Notably, Austin Texas still has 165' tall moonlight towers. "In 1894, the City of Austin purchased 31 used towers from Detroit. They were manufactured in Indiana by Fort Wayne Electric Company and assembled onsite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonli...Austin,_Texas) This leads one to wonder whether any of Los Angeles' street lighting somehow matriculated to other geographic locales, not unlike street cars? Austin Moonlight Tower https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ight_tower.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ight_tower.jpg And on the subject of "specials," there are "Windsor Square Specials," too. https://www.larchmontbuzz.com/wp-con...07/photo-1.jpg https://www.larchmontbuzz.com/wp-con...e-Special1.jpg https://www.larchmontbuzz.com/larchm...uare-specials/ |
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I remember during one of our skateboarding recon outings coming across what we figured was an old soapbox racecourse in the area of what is now Ernest Debs park....somewhere around the region I circled. It has changed since I was a teen (no kidding). We would be looking SW in your photo er, the Southwest Museum just out of the right side of the frame. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/922/4...45cd3a20_b.jpg ETA: Cursory research seems to lend plausibility to my theory. That's the track I remember in the center anyway. 1960 UCSB aerial (rotated to put North at the top) https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1805/...3e47c35f_z.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1790/...4bdd9ea7_h.jpg here is the current Google Sat view |
A few years ago I was at the Audubon Center and faded noticed numbers painted on what used to be the derby track.
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Vintage Ad Rediscovered in Atwater Village
Greetings Fellow Noirish Los Angeles Members!
Long time viewer, first time posting here. Not sure if it's been mentioned before, so I've decided to post about this recent discovery in the Atwater Village neighborhood. Last Month, The Eastsider, a local online publication, reported that a building undergoing renovations led to the uncovering of an old hand painted advertisement (known as a ghost sign). It depicts a Dr. Pepper ad that might date back to the late 1920s. During those years, the building's tenant is believed to have been the Los Feliz Produce Mart. Article link: https://www.theeastsiderla.com/2018/06/a-slice-of-old-atwater-village-reveals-itself/ Dr. Pepper Ad Close-Up https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1824/...b881e205_z.jpg Photo by Art Perez The Los Feliz Produce Market: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1766/...7ffa544d_z.jpg TESSA Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library http://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/105612 The building is located at 3070 Los Feliz Blvd. Ad can be found on its left-side exterior wall. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1828/...6fe253b1_z.jpg My own photo View of the ad from sidewalk: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/840/4...2c632cc6_z.jpg My own photo https://farm1.staticflickr.com/926/2...6e2ca5f7_z.jpg My own photo I took these pictures below of a time switch post in 2014. It's located right across the street from the building undergoing renovations, on the side facing Edenhurst Ave. Looks like it's from the same bygone era as the Los Feliz Produce Market. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/842/4...01a1f3c4_z.jpg My own photo https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1804/...494e0087_z.jpg My own photo |
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Cheers, Earl |
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Loeffler's Barber Shop was at 106½ E. Broadway in Glendale. https://i.imgur.com/PIYKqmv.jpg ci.glendale.ca.us The street lights endure. https://i.imgur.com/YUnQPK0.jpg GSV |
"New York City Street Scene" at 6th & Grand
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BF...N=w967-h472-no ebay Note that the "Jesus Saves" sign made it into the shot too: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mE...P=w835-h504-no (detail) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YH...R=w810-h584-no gsv I wrote to the seller, but no response or change. . |
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I wondered about the time switch too Lorendoc. -was it to time the stop lights?
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I was struggling to see how this was the same building as the earlier market. but...In the aerial below you can clearly its original shape. (backward L) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/v9217n.jpg ___ I thought it would be a fun challange to try and figure out the ad that appears below the Dr. Pepper sign. This one https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/XvW98i.jpg detail Then I noticed that the same color of yellow also appears above the Dr. Pepper ad. -so I guess it's part of the Dr. Pepper ad. (so much for my fun challange :() ___________________ it would be similar to this one. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...921/HuPB1g.jpg creativewaco but instead of "enjoy that flavor" it says something else. __ |
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"(You need a lift) more at 10, 2 and 4" (note clock face) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pc...3=w334-h570-no drpeppermuseumfiles ............................................................................................... I thought the time switches were to control the street lamps (?) . |
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Here's a picture from the late 1990's of the disused Soap Box Derby track in Ernest E. Debs Park. https://i.imgur.com/JBRzyZr.jpg debspark.org |
:previous: I see Noir Noir beat me to it. :hell:
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LOOK OUT!
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/cOvhCY.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/RQovph.jpg Eagle Rock Sentinel, Number 77, 24 September 1980. So there aren't any brakes at all? lol |
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