Art & Inspiration Find the Hot Rod

Did any of you notice that there were very few vehicles parked on those hills that had their front wheels turned the correct way? In "parked in gear with e-brake" we trust!

 

Earliest Hot Rods were Model T's with Frontenac overheads, so it was easy to notice the Frontenac Apartments early on at :48 at 500 Hyde Street in San Francisco. If you can freeze and copy, please post that. Bob

 

Paint any car $32.!!

 

Right around 3:30 there is a Model A Ford mail truck close to 20 years old and still in use. Bob

 

Yup, I stand corrected.
Bunker Hill where Angel’s Flight use to be.

 

and one of these...



The Fronty story...
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=104928

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Thanks Stogy!

Bob

 

I guess a bitter irony is while this film fascinates me, is that so many in this film much like most mechanical and structures have departed to the big blue sky. This is not unlike most films, photos and literature freezing moments in time which itself never stops. Just a thought. I guess the moral of that is enjoy life as it doesn't last forever...

These moments however depict a time just after one of the big Wars and things were settling and the good life could be lived again after the hell.

There was a lot of desirable vehicles that's for sure. A great period piece thanks again @Nailhead A-V8 .

 

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With all the modern camera stuff and Google Earth, could someone film this trip today?

Bob

 

Sure but would really be lacking in the ambience depicted here nothing but daily drivers...it would be a shocking change. I guess they filmed from the back of a truck. The quality was quite good too.

The Waver



Any of you Hambers in this film?



2 more slightly dressed fat fenders

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Even with the changes I recognize downtown LA. Cool!

 

Yep, it is.....same bay windowed 4 story building in the background, also a palm tree to the right of the car in the same position, easier seen when the stake bed truck is gone.

 

What ever they were filming out of drew folks attention. Watch the people as they pass..As far as Hot Rods,every dang one of them was in my mind.
Newest car i saw was 47 Studebaker.Thanks

 

I'm a little confused... I believe it was established that this was San Fran around the Bunker Hill neighbourhood, correct? So why are people referring to LA? Is this a combination of the two though it didn't look like that to me. Any freeze frames of the good looking young lady walking past the park?

 

i like to think it was a film crew checking out street footage for a noir type film. maybe this Philip Marlo movie?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039217/

 

I use to work downtown LA (1st and Alameda) many years ago. A few blocks from City Hall.
The building is gone now replaced with condos I think.
Used the Harbor Freeway to get there and back.
My way home was 3rd street and through the tunnel next to Angels Flight (also no longer there).
I remember all the cool, old Victorian homes up on Bunker Hill. I believe some got moved to a new street and became a show piece.

 

The Good Ole Days...

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$32 seems kinda high Earl Sheib would do it for $29.95.

 

Bunker Hill is LA, Knob Hill is SF. I think 2935ford got mixed up but has repented.

Pre war Bunker Hill:

Demolishion work in 1962:


Houses being moved in 69:

 

If you go to YouTube, there is a split scene video comparing this video with a modern video of the same route in Los Angeles. I don't know how to show the video here.

Mick

 

I think it’s L.A., to many palm trees for S.F.


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My brother had his '57 Chev mordor painted by Scheib......the roof peeled off the next day on his way to work!
They did repaint it though and that time it stuck!

 

Yes, it is Los Angeles, it is NOT San Francisco!!

Mick

 

I saw two things that make me agree with this. One, a building with a sign saying 4th and Grand. I don't believe that SF has a street named Grand and I do not believe that Grant Ave in SF crosses 4th Street. Second, I saw a pharmacy name Angel's Flight. I believe that to be the funicular in LA.

 

#3 is the ticket! I didn't know LA was so hilly. I guess next time I'm there I'll have to bring my soapbox derby car and search out the hills!

 

# 1 was pretty hot too I'm sure. They are lucky they don't get winter thats all I can say...​

 

I saw the hot rods, but did anyone notice the Packard taxi around 1:30 - 2:30? I always remember my dad telling me that Packard sealed their fate as a luxury automobile when they started selling their cars to cab companies. Funny what sticks with you through the years.

Does the "Fat Ford" with skirts at 2:16 count? As a Minnesota boy who spent one year at UMD, I might have thought it was Duluth with those hills (but not the palm trees).

 

I guess it is LA after all, and the Bunker Hill section. Found these photos of the Frontenac apartments.

 

My honest first thoughts were of Rice a roni and/or a Steve McQueen car chase so guess I was on the rite track to being close
Thanks for sharing, love the video and the chance "again" to hear some cool music I hadnt heard before, on here.