1906 - Redondo Beach Esplanade
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics07/00023364.jpg
1912 - Redondo Beach, said to be "Moonstone Beach."
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics30/00049503.jpg
1924 -- Redondo Beach Hotel. Torn down in 1925 - for kindling. Worth noting that the Redondo was a sister to the Hotel Del Coronado, and every bit as grand.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6314772&postcount=17226
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics07/00023342.jpg
1938 - Pacific Avenue, Redondo.
Another sidewalk clock
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics07/00023365.jpg
Truth in advertising?
Perfection a la 1924, a Hotel in Redondo Beach. (
Mention WigWag to the desk clerk and you may get an extra towel.
) Unable to determine the location of this image. Bet Charles Lindbergh would know. (see bottom of post) Source identifies this as being near the Redondo Pike.
100 North or South . . . Pacific Avenue? Catalina? Per later photos, the same environs underwent major changes by 1960.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll65/id/1476/rec/19
El Ja Arms.
El Ja Arms.
Is perfection a matter of opinion or established fact?
If you missed it, you were going to fast or it wasn't worth noticing. Spring loaded or pendulum. Either way, it wouldn't be too kind to my 26" rims.
Sam Seelig of Safeway fame.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=5974831&postcount=11586 (
1924 - Produce without the pesticide DDT. Would it be considered organic?)
Anyone lend me their magic wand? What I would not give to turn the clock back and spend a few minutes on this car with Pop.
More of Redondo in 1924. Companion to the above images. Source indicates this is "in" the Redondo Beach Pike.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/6597/rec/71
A lot of Hotels, but can any
really say they are perfect? (
Judge not, lest ye be judged?)
That Mission facade and Bell should be familiar. Remember the Esplanade from 1906?
Entertaining promenade.
Ambiance is hard to quantify. The magic seems missing.
1954 - Northern view of Pacific Avenue from Bonita Ave.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics31/00050120.jpg
It seems that by 1960, Redondo's roads were undergoing dramatic transformation.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics31/00050121.jpg
A Redondo Beach asterisk: Sometime prior to 1918, Charles Lindbergh is said to have attended Redondo Beach Union High School. He reportedly traveled several times to California with his mother, Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, who was separated from his father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh Any idea where the two resided when in the LA area? One presumes that it was in the Redondo Beach area.