Thanks
JMR,
Earl &
Flyingwedge for helping locate my '36 lifeguards' photograph.
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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
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I just spent the last half hour looking at photographs of the place. It's really interesting.
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CityBoyDoug,
Allow me to briefly reminisce:
There's a Tilt-A-Whirl still in working condition on the boardwalk at Indiana Beach, Shafer Lake. My family spent summers at the lake
and my sister and I worked at the beach's Skyroom restaurant when we were in high school.
When the park was known as Ideal Beach many famous bands played in it's lakefront ballroom; Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong,
Glen Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman among others.
In the 1960s/70s the ballroom was still going strong; with shows featuring the Beach Boys, The Who, Sonny and Cher,
Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Jefferson Airplane, among many others.
The ballroom is still standing, but it isn't on the water any longer as landfill has been added around it.
1940s
eBay
I circled the Tilt-A-Whirl in blue (it's still in the same spot today
CBD!)
& the red arrow points to the now closed ballroom.
I apologize for going off topic, but the park is getting ready to open for it's 90th year so it's been on my mind lately. (it's only 30 miles from where I live)
Now back to
'noirish' Los Angeles.
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