Random Los Angeles pics from the year
1955
For some mood music, here was a hit from that year:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FFUe...eature=related" target="_blank">Video Link
All pics from the USC Archive. Some of these might be reposts, but what the hell!
Wilshire looking west from McCarthy Vista
Selpuveda Tunnel at LAX
New Van Nuys Court Building
USC Election Campaign. Notice how someone is supposed to "Go Ape" but the costume is that of an abominable snowman or Yeti or something.
Skid Row, East 5th Street. These pics make skid row look like it was a cool place to hang out.
Stabbing suspects
Signal Hill oil wells
Parked car hit by truck
Rain over Los Angeles
This was captioned as "Ding Dong Daddy" divorce. I don't know what that means.
I love the Graflex Camera.
Downtown freeway slot and Federal Courthouse
Subway Terminal Building
Looking south on Spring Street across Hollywood/Santa Ana Freeway towards the Federal Courthouse and City Hall. I don't know why they didn't choose to use the same type of street light standards for the ones over the freeway; to this day, they still don't match, not that I care.
Handing out free streetcar tokens. The woman in the middle of the pic looks pissed off, like "oh no you did NOT just skip me over for that old cracker in the cheap suit!"
3-car collision at Santa Barbara Ave. and Normandie
"Bus strike can be fun."
Cahuenga Pass
"Carrier Boys at Orpheum Theatre." I don't know what a carrier boy is. Is the guy on the left wearing a Calypso shirt?
College Street Bridge over the Arroyo Seco Parkway
Continental Building
Deer killed on freeway in Cahuenga Pass
3400 Wilshire Blvd. Postwar Modernism meets prewar historic revivalism.