CurtesyFlush
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Re: Old pics of the area
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You can see the post office boxes on the right. That was the El Toro Post Office in its entirety. This was the last chance for gas before heading out into the canyons. They even sold Levis, socks, dungarees, work boots and overalls. Everything for the well-dressed citrus farmer.
ETR was two lanes back then. I remember this as if it were yesterday.
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aztecnology
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These old pictures are great... |
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bjl
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OC Archives on Flickr:
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Broadway, Glendale 1920 | 
Venice beach ,1920 | 
Dodgers stadium construction 1961 | 
Pacific Electric subway cars | 
Reseda Blvd from Devonshire | 
Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oks 1910 - 1920 | 
Venice beach | 
Los Feliz Blvd in Atwater Village , 1920 | 
Flooded street interesction, 6th and Mariposa 1920 | 
Courthouse and Hall of Records | 
Hall of Records | 
7th and Broadway | 
6th Street bridge | 
Wilshire | 
Ocean piers | | 
Broadway and 6th | 
Hill and 3rd 1978 | 
Bunker Hill homes 1969 | 
Forced eviction of Chavez Ravine 1959 | 
Chavez Ravine 1950 | 
Garfield and Slauson 1941 | 
View from city hall 1930 | 
Bellevue Terrace hotel 6th and Figueroa 1900 | 
Santa Monica beach 1900 | 
Alameda Street flood 1900 | | 
Glendale 1900 | 
San Fernando Valley 1900 |  | 
The Port of Los Angeles 1900 | 
Pasadena 1900 | 
Los Angeles 1890 |
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1932 | 
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The whole area sold for $135,000.00 in 1926... 29 acres.
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CurtesyFlush
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Crown Valley Parkway, with the nothingness that was pre-development Mission Viejo stretching into infinity. Early sixties.
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CurtesyFlush
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Mission Viejo Phase 2. The freeway runs through the bottom, and the road heading up to a deadend past those two fake lakes is Oso Parkway. The lakes are part of the MV golf course facilities. Only the lower lake remains, the upper one is parking, IIRC.
Oso dead ends above that at Marguerite Pkwy.
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CurtesyFlush
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Aerial view of El Toro and NW Mission Viejo in the very early seventies. For orientation, extreme lower left of center you can see the small green tree dotted area of the cemetery, so the "T" intersection above that and to the right a bit is Trabuco Rd and El Toro Rd. As you can see, Trabuco Rd hasn't been punched through to its namesake on the other side of the little valley yet. You can see the homes of the Seville tract crawling up the hill to the left of the Trabuco extension, which then intersects with one of the nascent fragments of Los Alisos Blvd.
I'll let those of you who are familiar with the current configuration of this area marvel at the changes wrought. I can remember this like it was yesterday.
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Cool. When I used to work for the "Lazy 'L'", they would put these pictures in the newsletter periodically. Amazing stuff.
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Received an email today. I thought it was worth moving to the forum:
Lockheed During WWII(1940s pictures)
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from Japanese air attack.
They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
The first picture is the before and the others, after the change.
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CurtesyFlush
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The great Bel Air fire of 1961. The first brush fire that I ever paid attention to and the one that probably started me on the road to where I ended up. I can remember Ralph Story reporting on it.
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said by CurtesyFlush  :Anyone recognize this scene? I do. Before my time. Where is that? I'm thinking Hollywood Hills perhaps... |
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CurtesyFlush
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Here's a contemporary overhead shot of the exact block depicted in the 1949 shot with the ice cream man in it.
EDIT: As you can see, the freeway took out Ferguson Alley. According to my 1945 Renie Pocket Atlas of Los Angeles, it also took out nearby Sanchez St, Fort Moore and Negro Alley. |
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CurtesyFlush
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Anyone recognize this scene? I do. |
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CurtesyFlush
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This is just South of current day Turtle Rock. |
Published caption: GRAZING CATTLE-This is the headquarters camp of fabulous Irvine Ranch in Bommer Canyon. Ranch provides homes like those under trees for most employees in vast operation covering sixth of Orange County.
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: July 26, 1959
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there's a place that looks just like it along venice... near the Versailles on Venice. i know there's an indian sweets and spices in there (or there was), and i think there's a diner.
i need to start bringing my camera with me as i bike around town. |
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CurtesyFlush
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I'd like to go back in time and have a meal at that little cafe.
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bobrk
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Look at all those TuDors.  |
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CurtesyFlush
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Title: Street vendor gazing at old structure which will be torn down to make way for Hollywood Freeway, Calif., 1949
Published caption: DOOMED BY PROGRESS -- A street vendor pauses to gaze at old Los Angeles structure between Aliso St. and Ferguson Alley on N Los Angeles St. which will be torn down to make way for freeway. Building erected in 1882.
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: May 1, 1949
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CurtesyFlush
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Title: Pasadena Freeway and grading work on Chavez Ravine with backdrop of San Gabriel Mountains, Calif., 1962
Published caption: NEW SKYLINE--San Gabriel Mountains are blanketed with snow in view looking north and east from the 420-ft. level of City Hall. At left is Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine, and right center, the Pasadena Freeway.
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: January 24, 1962
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