Duke Kahanomoku on the left, winner of 5 Olympic medals. With all the barbed wire, looks like wartime.
(1933)* - Carhops pose for the camera in front of Carpenter's Sandwich Drive-in restaurant, located near the NE corner of Sunset and Vine.
(ca. 1938)^** – View looking south showing the newly built Carpenter’s Drive-in Restaurant located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood.
(1939)*– Close-up look at Simon’s Drive-in Restaurant located on the SE Corner of Sunset and Highland. Note the house number hanging from the ceiling, confirming it as 6760 Sunset (at the southeast corner of Highland).
Merry Xmas then. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39869/39869-h/39869-h.htm. This is the dick that spoiled all the fun with dynamite; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
(ca. 1931)* - View showing carhops and customers posing for the camera front of Pig Stand drive-in restaurant. The drive-in was located on the southeast corner of Sunset and Vine. By 1938, this site would become home to Harry Carpenter's Drive-in.
(1950s)##^* – View showing a woman drinking a soda while leaning on a street sign post with a Stan’s Drive-in seen in the background on the 4400 block of Sunset Blvd (SE corner of Sunset and Virgil Ave, across the street from the Vista Theatre). Click HERE for contemporary view.
(1931)* - A driver/milkman for Adohr Creamery Company, sits at the wheel of his delivery truck. Historical Notes The Adohr dairy moved to Camarillo in 1947. Adamson's son, Merritt Jr., eventually sold the dairy operation to the Southland Corp. in 1966.
(1960s)* - View of the amusement park boat ride inside of Busch Gardens. Busch Gardens was located next to the Anheiser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley. Historical Notes Amongst the many activities provided for visitors were boat rides across a lagoon, a monorail, a log-flume ride, and a suspended trolley tour through the brewery; but perhaps the most popular attraction was the free beer. Once the park admission was paid, anyone of drinking age was allowed “two 10-ounce glasses of beer at each of the five pavilions.” **#* (ca. 1970s)^^^* - Boat ride at Busch Gardens, Van Nuys. The Sky Trolley rail can be seen on the left. A beautiful waterfall is on the right. Historical Notes In 1972 Busch Gardens would go through an expensive expansion that saw the addition of the log ride and other attractions of the like, and necessitated the construction of a pedestrian bridge and another monorail line to adjoin the original brewery property to the new section of the park.^^^** (1970)* - Passengers line up as they prepare to board the Busch Gardens boat ride.
(1948)#^*^ - The Chatsworth Rocks in the Santa Susana Pass provide a dramatic frame for Southern Pacific's "Lark," train no. 76, as it emerges from tunnel No. 27 heading into Los Angeles in January 1948. (Donald Duke photo/LARHF collection) Historical Notes No. 4428 seen above is a GS-3 type built in 1937, the first GS class with 80-inch drivers, and built to operate with a maximum speed of 106 mph.
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