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Originally Posted by riichkay
As per the website: "This photograph was taken on Tahunga Boulevard in Burbank, California in 1957".....I'm going to respectfully disagree, this looks like mid-Wilshire to me.
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Agree it is prob. not Burbank. Plus Tuhunga Blvd. is in NoHo, not Burbank. I lived near that area when I was a kid, so I know it well. Everything from Cahuenga to Colfax was my old 'hood. Went to Reed Jr. High and NoHo high back in the '60s.
At Walter Reed JH, I vividly remember the awful day that JFK died. They put out the news on the intercom in the classrooms right before lunch, and shortly therafter they lowered the flag to half staff & played "Taps" on the loudspeakers and then let all the students go home. When I got home on the bus, I remember seeing my mom on the sofa watching the news coverage. She had been crying. She was a JFK fan and worked in his 1960 campaign. I also remember watching on Sat. morning when Oswald was being transferred and was shockingly shot by Jack Ruby. Even then we thought it was a setup to quiet Oswald from ratting on his associates. Most people didn't think he acted alone.
Anybody remember Mr. Corbin the Physics teacher at NoHo high? Great teacher, as was Mr. Kennedy in biology, Mr. Doucette in English and Lyle T. Wolf, excellent History and Social Studies teacher. Reminded me of Jonathan Winters. Funny guy, great teach. After he retired he moved to Vermont with his wife and ran a B&B inn. Like Newhart in that TV show, but earlier. He died just a few years ago. RIP Lyle. I'll be up there soon enough. Buy you a drink if they serve them up there. Say "hello" to God and tell him to stop this stupid war in Ukraine