In this photo, we’re looking south down La Cienega Blvd from Pico Blvd. What worries me is that there appear to be no lane lines painted on the road, which makes it look as though the prevailing law was “I’ll drive where I damn well please!” At least La Cienega Blvd appears to be very well lit with all those dual-lamp streetlights lining the both side of the street.
The same view in April 2019. Those nice streetlights are gone but at least the road lanes are painted!
Don’t you reckon * that the street markings were there but just aren’t visible in the photograph.
* Dyer County, Tennessee-ease for assume, imagine, or guess.
Well, actually, Charles, that thought hadn’t occurred to me! I was thinking that lone lump in the middle of the street is all they had. Surely you’re right, though. SURELY!!
Perhaps I am but for certain I am overcome with admiration of your fabulous collection of photographs of old Los Angeles. When I was a shave-tailed ensign fresh out of Class 20, Officers Candidate School, Navy Base, Newport, R.I. and was assigned to study aerology (Navy for meteorology) at the Naval Postgraduate School (the PG School) in Monterey, CA 1955-1956 in preparation for serving as assistant weather officer at Naval Air Station Miramar, San Diego, CA 1956-1958 before Tom Cruise was born, it seemed a perfect opportunity to explore Hollywood. A fan of “the flicks” since as a child my father and I would foot race down North Monroe Street to Main Street in Newbern, Dyer Country, Tennessee for a Sunday matinee at the Palace Theater in the same building where my father’s father had a grocery store some thirty years before. While at the PG School, I spent many a weekend exploring sites of old Hollywood. Befriended by an elderly couple who owned an old style motel (with separate cabins) on the ridge north of the Hollywood Bowl but razed to make way for the Hollywood Freeway, they only charged less than $20.00 for whole weekend. I found many of the sites pertaining to things about Hollywood I had learned as a child back in west Tennessee. I was aware of Pickfair, Charlie Chaplin, Mary and Doug founding United Artists etc. before I began kindergarten.
Thanks for sharing your memories with us, Charles. So if you were exploring LA in the 1950s, many of those places that I post would still have been around. I sure do envy you that experience. I can only experience them through the photos that somebody thought to take while those places were still around. And thank heavens for that couple who’d only charge you $20 for the weekend!
$20.00 is a lot of money for a young ensign in 1955. Among the many blessings that have been bestowed on me throughout my long life, the opportunity to view your photo collection.
Bless you,
The Young Minister
with the big ears and in a clerical cutaway designed and sewed on a pedal Singer
sewing machine * by his mother In the Tom Thumb Wedding at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Newbern,Tennessee, an event by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Church including his mother the summer of 1940.
* given to my mother by family friend, Morris Slimovitz, who in his early days made
mens ties to pedal out of his car and to sell in his uncle’s dry good store in Lake
County, Tennessee where Reelfoot Lake was created by the New Madrid earth-
quake in 1811. The Singer sewing machine is upstairs in my home as I type.
Morris may have pedaled as a young boy in Palestine (Ha!), but in Lake County as an adult he peddled the ties or sold them out of his car before he struck it rich with the Morris Manufacturing Company producing among other items the patented Morris Feel glove that enabled hunters to feel the trigger on their gun without taking off the glove.
In this photo, we’re looking south down La Cienega Blvd from Pico Blvd. What worries me is that there appear to be no lane lines painted on the road, which makes it look as though the prevailing law was “I’ll drive where I damn well please!” At least La Cienega Blvd appears to be very well lit with all those dual-lamp streetlights lining the both side of the street.
Don’t you reckon * that the street markings were there but just aren’t visible in the photograph.
* Dyer County, Tennessee-ease for assume, imagine, or guess.
Well, actually, Charles, that thought hadn’t occurred to me! I was thinking that lone lump in the middle of the street is all they had. Surely you’re right, though. SURELY!!
Perhaps I am but for certain I am overcome with admiration of your fabulous collection of photographs of old Los Angeles. When I was a shave-tailed ensign fresh out of Class 20, Officers Candidate School, Navy Base, Newport, R.I. and was assigned to study aerology (Navy for meteorology) at the Naval Postgraduate School (the PG School) in Monterey, CA 1955-1956 in preparation for serving as assistant weather officer at Naval Air Station Miramar, San Diego, CA 1956-1958 before Tom Cruise was born, it seemed a perfect opportunity to explore Hollywood. A fan of “the flicks” since as a child my father and I would foot race down North Monroe Street to Main Street in Newbern, Dyer Country, Tennessee for a Sunday matinee at the Palace Theater in the same building where my father’s father had a grocery store some thirty years before. While at the PG School, I spent many a weekend exploring sites of old Hollywood. Befriended by an elderly couple who owned an old style motel (with separate cabins) on the ridge north of the Hollywood Bowl but razed to make way for the Hollywood Freeway, they only charged less than $20.00 for whole weekend. I found many of the sites pertaining to things about Hollywood I had learned as a child back in west Tennessee. I was aware of Pickfair, Charlie Chaplin, Mary and Doug founding United Artists etc. before I began kindergarten.
Thanks for sharing your memories with us, Charles. So if you were exploring LA in the 1950s, many of those places that I post would still have been around. I sure do envy you that experience. I can only experience them through the photos that somebody thought to take while those places were still around. And thank heavens for that couple who’d only charge you $20 for the weekend!
$20.00 is a lot of money for a young ensign in 1955. Among the many blessings that have been bestowed on me throughout my long life, the opportunity to view your photo collection.
Bless you,
The Young Minister
with the big ears and in a clerical cutaway designed and sewed on a pedal Singer
sewing machine * by his mother In the Tom Thumb Wedding at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Newbern,Tennessee, an event by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Church including his mother the summer of 1940.
* given to my mother by family friend, Morris Slimovitz, who in his early days made
mens ties to pedal out of his car and to sell in his uncle’s dry good store in Lake
County, Tennessee where Reelfoot Lake was created by the New Madrid earth-
quake in 1811. The Singer sewing machine is upstairs in my home as I type.
Morris may have pedaled as a young boy in Palestine (Ha!), but in Lake County as an adult he peddled the ties or sold them out of his car before he struck it rich with the Morris Manufacturing Company producing among other items the patented Morris Feel glove that enabled hunters to feel the trigger on their gun without taking off the glove.
Looking at these two photos, it appears La Cienega Blvd both did and didn’t have lane markers in the 1930’s.
https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111328
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/9018
Now that is what I was expecting to see!