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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
Posting the photo taken in Florida of a car that looks like a car in a photo taken in Los Angeles is supposed to provoke "further discovery leading to an LA-noir-nexus and an LA-noir image"?
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Sorry, but the location of where the Cadillac-La Salle concept car photo was taken
was never established. I don't recognize it as being LA, but anything is possible, especially with the palm trees.
If the location remained unknown, would that have made the photo more relevant or less objectionable?
Lead to further discovery? In delving into
that car's history I discovered that it was part of a traveling show, "
Motorama,"
that visited LA on March 5-13, 1955.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Motorama One or two of the NLA posters may have even attended that show. There have been many automobile posts on NLA, including those from various Pan Pacific Auto Shows, and, for all I know, the car can be found in one of them, or in an image that has not yet seen the NLA light of day. (See e.g.,
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=19200 ;
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14185 ;
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/newr...eply&p=5831389 ;
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21882 Per the LATimes,
that car, or a prototype just like it, was reportedly in the process of restoration.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug...tcars-20100823
The pictured Motorama concept car was one of Harley Earl's designs or inspired by him.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1940s-...cept-cars1.htm (Influential Earl grew up in LA, as has been discussed on NLA several times. E.g.,
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21929) Since there was a photo of
Don Lee's LA Cadillac/La Salle dealership as part of the same post, it might be argued that the car had something to do with Lee. I just don't know. But since the post also included a picture of the rather futuristic deco
Hillcrest Cadillac dealer, the concept car
may have represented a mix between the "old" Lee and the "new" Hillcrest. The post began featuring a Moon automobile. It had what looks like a California license tag and a reference to Pasadena on the spare tire cover. The location of the vehicle is
assumed to be local, although it may not have been. Moons' connection with LA is unclear and almost as attenuated as a concept car that once visited the city in 1955. We are also informed that Disney owned a similar Moon model and that he advertised it in the LA Times. I find it interesting, but the image of a Moon at an unknown location does not necessarily connect with Disney or LA.
Or maybe it does.
I like this thread because I like many aspects of LA's history and growth. I don't follow this thread for the cars, and not all NLA posts interest me nor have I found them all directly relevant to LA.
However, occasionally even the less-interesting posts and their "unrelated" content has caused me to turn to a reference I would have otherwise never looked, resulting in more welcome LA information.
This is generally a good thing
http://imageshack.us/a/img442/6126/aapanpacificsnap.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9876
100 truck caravan.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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