Thats it Doug! I enjoyed all those Cheech and Chong movies. I had an 8 track tape of them in 71 or 72. I don't recall the name of it.
BrerHair. Can you read the caption on that photo? Seems to be looking NorthWesterly from near the current location of the hospital that I was born in. The low spot in the mountains across the valley would be the Cajon pass. Redlands is about 70 miles East of Los Angeles.
Doesn't tell you what you want to know, although I'm sure you're right. Lower left corner says: "Copyright 1908, California Panorama Company, Los Angeles". Lower right corner says: "Compliments of The Galena Newspaper Syndicate, [3rd line is too blurry but it looks like an address, looks like it starts with "412"], Los Angeles, California". The caption in the L of C file simply says "Redlands, California".
Tickets to the Beatles at the "Hollywood Bowl"...August 1964. I was 13 at the time, and you'd have thought that to the media, that it was the only news going on in the world (which I thought was pretty weird, even then)
Well, I assume the rock is still there! I haven't been up to that area since the late 60's and it was still there then...I would almost guarantee it's covered in gang graffiti now.
Photoshop? Is/was there really a drive-in with that beautiful setting? Although looks like trouble staring into the setting sun.
Yeah,as a kid of about 13 in 1960 I was looking at hot rod books and dreaming of California.We lived in NJ near NYC and I never saw a traditional rod,there were lead sleds though.Then my dad who had spent time California during the late 1930's said he was gonna sell his business and we were all gonna move to L.A. Dad had Jukeboxes and figured he could muscle in out there with his NJ "mob" connections and get established.I was wetting my trousers with excitment !!!!But it didn't happen for a variety of reasons....and although I spent time around San Fran,never did make it to the L.A. area.
You can see the Great Salt Lake in the distance and "Bonnieville" is beyond the mountains to the right of the screen.
By the 1920s, LA already had the most cars per capita than any other city on earth at the time. I'm sure it was scenes like this that led to the encouragement of the building of freeways. Reading through old LA traffic plan books from the 1950s at the LA Central Library, it's funny to know that back then, freeways were really seen as a salvation for many, as they would "forever free up traffic from surface streets and cut down travel times across the city."
1952, Four-level interchange. Where the Hollywood Freeway meets the Pasadena/Harbor Freeway. This interchange is the first 4-level interchange ever built in the world. Note the route signing; US Route 99 is now Interstate 10; the Hollywood Freeway is still US Route 101. Of course US Route 66 doesn't exist, the Pasadena/Harbor Freeway now being California State Route 110/Interstate 110, respectively. California already had an extensive highway/freeway system which predated the Federal Interstate system; this was the reason why California was exempt from having exit numbers until fairly recently.
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