[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by HossC

While I was looking for pictures of Coffee Dan's on hollywoodphotographs.com, I came across a pair of photographs of the Rompage Hardware Co. which we discussed a few pages back. The address is 5512 Hollywood Blvd.

Its a small detail but I noticed one thing. In the orange square I point out those nasty little metal garbage cans that everyone used to set on the curb each week. A truck would come by and dump the contents into their truck box. I remember my mother taught me how to line the little can with old newspaper pages. One page went into the floor of the can and the others were folded and placed around the inside. It was one of my many household chores.

The paper trash was burned in the ubiquitous backyard incinerator. During the summer of 1957, those smoke belching incinerator contraptions were banned in LA.


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