Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Officers stop cars and check indentifications of persons trying to enter evacuation area.
Photo dated: February 11, 1971This is due to the earthquake two days prior.

 

Cars crossing over the Vincent Thomas Bridge, a suspension bridge located over the L.A. Harbor in San Pedro. 1964

 

ooooo... look at that lovely Amazon.

mike

 

gemnewt thanks for the nice comments along with the pictures.

 

Tijuana, Mexico 1959

 

View of Glendale's Brand Blvd. on August 23, 1963.
It extends in a generally north-south direction and is named
for L. C. Brand, one of Glendale's distinguished citizens,
business magnate and long-remembered civic benefactor.
Now this is the Glendale I remember, my family moved to
Glendale in the summer of 1961.This intersection is Brand Blvd.
and Broadway (looking North) has changed so much for instance
the building with the Bank of America on the left is now part of
the Glendale Galleria. I hardly recognize the old Glendale.

 

Only the building on the right(Security Bank)is still there... It is, ironically, the Jos. A. Bank Clothing Store building now.

 

I second that! Thank you for the great photos and descriptions.
Pete

 

Thanks guys, I think without some descriptions it's just a picture.
The photo of the '52 Chevrolet wagon I posted a few days ago that
was in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 movie The Killing with Sterling Hayden
where he drives up to the Greyhound Bus station and walk's in with
a box full of flowers. and in the background is Clarence Dixon Cadillac.
Krash Kadillak commented he would be interested to know the shooting
location so I went back and did a little more research and found that it
had become a FedEx-Kinko's and then found out that most likely the
Greyhound Bus station had been replaced by a Mcdonald's fast food
restaurant. I think it gives some new life to the photo.
Thanks again for your comments.

 

A pocket of natural gas exploded early Thursday in the midst of a
crew of workers drilling a Metropolitan Water District tunnel 250
feet beneath Sylmar. The explosion turned the 21-foot-high tunnel
into an inferno of blazing gases. Sixteen men were believed killed
in the blast or in the flames and suffocating smoke that followed,
and it was almost 10 hours before the first bodies could be removed.
By late Thursday night seven bodies had been removed, and by
Friday morning, five other bodies were taken out but the bodies
of four other victims were most likely vaporized. The explosion was
the second in two days at the Metropolitan Water District's San
Fernando Tunnel. Both explosions were blamed on methane,
the natural gas found in oil fields. Methane is natural gas, the
same as that used in gas ranges. In its normal state it is colorless
and odorless.
Summary Photograph shows rescue workers
looking or possible survivors trapped inside the tunnel, but
recovering lifeless bodies instead. Here, four Metropolitan Water
District Tunnel explosion victims are being brought out.
Photograph dated June 26, 1971.

 

Explosive Device Kills Would-Be Bomber At Compton Police Station - Officers carry away the body of Thomas L. Harper Jr., 23, after bomb planting attempt backfired.
July 2, 1970

 

Those Glendale pics remind me of the time I bought my '69 Thunderbird 4-door Landau model from Los Feliz Ford on Brand Bl, around 1975 or so.... $1,000 - 'as-is' - and it certainly was. Half the electrical system was dead. It drove, though.

 

I know it well I worked for Allen Gwynn Chevrolet directly
across the street from Los Feliz Ford for a couple of years.

 

I used to visit the body shop at Allen Gwynn once in a while in my work as an auto damage appraiser- back around the early 90's......