The good old days of door to door selling. More get in the spirit laughs.Should have just bought the damn tree. Now adays the fake trees cost more than that car did back then!! click here not below Laurel and Hardy car and house smash Laurel and Hardy car and house smash
Fedcospeed... "Big Business" is one of Laurel & Hardy's funniest ! Jimmy Finlayson, a Scottish addition to Hal Roach Studios, was paired with them many times...always a "perfect foil" for their mis-adventures ! I love the way he not only rips the T apart, but continues to jump up-and-down on it...would like to have known the "prep work" involved in getting BOTH it, and the house, ready for demolition ! BTW: "Two Tars" has a similar plot...only with about a zillion cars involved in a Sunday afternoon traffic jam that turns into a "demolition derby" of mass proportions ! This Link is for the full "short" and the "set-up" where they also pick-up a couple of girls on their weekend passes from the Navy. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...9C947CFAEB671D12D60D9C947CFAEB671D1&FORM=VIRE Jonnie www.legends.thewwbc.net
(Did not know which thread to post this combination story... Reflections, Christmas list or delivering trees...) Hello, During a couple of Christmas seasons during high school, my friend’s family had a tree lot on the corner of San Antonio and Long Beach Blvd. It was right near two hot car/restaurants. The one on the adjoining lot to the Christmas tree lot was Hof’s Hut, Bixby Knolls. (a rand photo… “…Designed by mid-century architect Edward Killingsworth, the restaurant’s exposed post and beam structure and massive windows helped make it a classic for more than half a century.”) The other is right down the street, Grissinger’s Drive In. We all know what the thing is with drive in restaurants and cruising cars. This Hof’s Hut (now an office building) had a drive out only driveway that went right by the best booth in the restaurant. (far right of the building) It was the most cruised driveway in this area, besides the drive-in parking lot. The reflection of the cars in the restaurant windows was up close and personal. What a sight for everyday cruising in your car. We were the only ones working the Christmas tree lot and one of the workers took the 1951 Chevy pickup home. So, all we had was the lowered, 1957 Chevy Bel Air. Around 8 pm on a Saturday night, this older lady came in to buy a tree. She bought an 8 ft. tall white flocked tree. She wanted it delivered to her house. We both said fine and I started to flock the whole tree. When the tree was ready, she told us the address, which was at her beach house on the Belmont Shore Peninsula, about 11 miles away. We told her that the lot closed at 1030 pm and that we could deliver it then. She said it was fine and gave us an extra tip to drive it to her house. Wrapping up the flocked tree with plastic and securing it to the top of the lowered 57 Chevy was an exercise in planning. It was a good thing that the Chevy was white…a white sleigh with a white tree on top…a sight for sure. When we were ready, we decided to drive through the adjoining Hof’s Hut driveway and see if we knew anyone sitting in the prime booth inside the huge window. Low and behold, there was a booth full of our friends (girls) having a late evening hamburger/coke/fries meal. They were all decked out in Christmas attire. When they saw the 57 Chevy, they knew it was us. When they saw the white flocked tree on top, they all stood up and started to laugh/point at us. What a scene… it should have been a movie clip for history… Jnaki Yes, we delivered the white tree to the lady’s house and set it up in her living room. The nice lady said that a white tree on top of the white 57 Chevy was a very fitting scenario. She also gave us another tip (yeah for us...)for doing such a great job of delivering the tree to her house. A little LB history…the house was one of the only few that was still standing on the empty portion of the Peninsula/Alamitos Beach. It was one of the few houses that survived the documented 1939 hurricane that hit Long Beach. We always wondered why there were only a few homes from the famous Alamitos Bay handball courts to 55th street. Now we know. Back then, it was just a strange sight to only see a few homes on this stretch of beach. We were not historic information junkies back then, like in today’s internet driven world.
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