Incredible post sopas_ej! I am going to be spending hours studying everything in those photos. 1955 was the year of my very first visit to Los Angeles, but since I was two, I remember nothing. Its just fun to get an idea of what it looked like then.
What I really want to write about is:
I'll be ding-dong-danged but I'm pretty postive that is Francis Van Wie behind those manilla folders, the famous Ding Dong Daddy of San Francisco!
Good ol' Francis was a very short, chubby, bespectacled guy who managed to get 18 women to marry him! I am attaching a great newsletter article about him from a Market Street Railway blog from 2005. I've been a member of the railway association for years and your posting made me recall the story, so I searched the blog archives and here it is:
http://www.streetcar.org/blog/2005/1...eal-story.html
That has to be him in the photos!
~Jon Paul
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Random Los Angeles pics from the year
1955
This was captioned as "Ding Dong Daddy" divorce. I don't know what that means.
I love the Graflex Camera.
