<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: The first car to drive through the Hill St. Tunnels in downtown Los Angeles, September 1913 </title> <atom:link href="https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:29:11 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title> By: Al Donnelly </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400529</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Donnelly]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:29:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=24165#comment-400529</guid> <description><![CDATA[The two black & whites are both Fords, and the visible Fordor looks to have a Mainliner name in chrome with perhaps the V-8 crest ahead of it for the engine option. Fully slab-sided with rocket tail lights (?) it might have the late flathead ('52-'53) or perhaps the new Y-block for '54 models. Car behind it has lights on the roof too, but what's with the paint...coroner in town?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The two black & whites are both Fords, and the visible Fordor looks to have a Mainliner name in chrome with perhaps the V-8 crest ahead of it for the engine option. Fully slab-sided with rocket tail lights (?) it might have the late flathead (’52-’53) or perhaps the new Y-block for ’54 models. Car behind it has lights on the roof too, but what’s with the paint…coroner in town?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Name Withheld. </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400516</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Name Withheld.]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:36:41 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=24165#comment-400516</guid> <description><![CDATA[I believe it to be a Studebaker touring car from right around the year the photo was taken, 1913 give or take. Virtually all cars even back then in fact did have suspensions that were leaf spring based and could support significant suspension travel requirements. That being said the ride was still rough. This was necessary as they had to traverse bumpy early roads, often simply of compacted and deeply rutted dirt. You can see the leaf springs running front to back on both sides right below the bottom corners of the radiator shell (grill).]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe it to be a Studebaker touring car from right around the year the photo was taken, 1913 give or take. Virtually all cars even back then in fact did have suspensions that were leaf spring based and could support significant suspension travel requirements. That being said the ride was still rough. This was necessary as they had to traverse bumpy early roads, often simply of compacted and deeply rutted dirt. You can see the leaf springs running front to back on both sides right below the bottom corners of the radiator shell (grill).</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Al Donnelly </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400515</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Donnelly]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:26:27 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=24165#comment-400515</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400512">M. Mitchell M Marmel</a>. Got me on that spotting. I thought it began "St" or "El", but it looks like script fer sure and IIRC that's what Maxwell used earlier on. Did find a Maxwell wrench a few months back and surprisingly in the old script style with the foundry mark too. Perhaps Mr. Benny would like to get it back, if he's not too cheap.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400512">M. Mitchell M Marmel</a>.</p> <p>Got me on that spotting. I thought it began “St” or “El”, but it looks like script fer sure and IIRC that’s what Maxwell used earlier on. Did find a Maxwell wrench a few months back and surprisingly in the old script style with the foundry mark too. Perhaps Mr. Benny would like to get it back, if he’s not too cheap.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Martin Turnbull </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400514</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Turnbull]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:08:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=24165#comment-400514</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400512">M. Mitchell M Marmel</a>. You're one up on me MMM. I've never even heard of a the Maxwell brand!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400512">M. Mitchell M Marmel</a>.</p> <p>You’re one up on me MMM. I’ve never even heard of a the Maxwell brand!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: M. Mitchell M Marmel </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400512</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[M. Mitchell M Marmel]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:10:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=24165#comment-400512</guid> <description><![CDATA[If I'm reading the script on the radiator correctly, that's an old Maxwell. Wonder if Jack Benny wound up buying it 20 years later? :)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I’m reading the script on the radiator correctly, that’s an old Maxwell. Wonder if Jack Benny wound up buying it 20 years later? 🙂</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Al Donnelly </title> <link>https://martinturnbull.com/2022/02/15/the-first-car-to-drive-through-the-hill-st-tunnels-in-downtown-los-angeles-september-1913/#comment-400511</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Donnelly]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:02:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://martinturnbull.com/?p=24165#comment-400511</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the second image, the colored light is above a sign that reads "Keep to Right". The electric line (to Sunset via another tunnel) has at this point been decommissioned and both sides of the tubes are devoted to one-way auto traffic...inbound on the hill side, outbound on the downtown/courts side. The soon-to-come demolition would first close the outer route, requiring vehicles to follow a shoofly detour around the site. The inbound (ex-railway) side would come after. Very telling that they had to put a "No Parking" sign on the middle faces for the slightly mal-adjusted drivers, or were they just the typical seasonal tourists with "good 'nuff" on their minds? Any rate, Disney would take care of this kind of thrill soon when Mr. Toad's Wild Ride would go into the abuilding theme park a few miles out past the orange groves.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the second image, the colored light is above a sign that reads “Keep to Right”. The electric line (to Sunset via another tunnel) has at this point been decommissioned and both sides of the tubes are devoted to one-way auto traffic…inbound on the hill side, outbound on the downtown/courts side. The soon-to-come demolition would first close the outer route, requiring vehicles to follow a shoofly detour around the site. The inbound (ex-railway) side would come after. Very telling that they had to put a “No Parking” sign on the middle faces for the slightly mal-adjusted drivers, or were they just the typical seasonal tourists with “good ’nuff” on their minds? Any rate, Disney would take care of this kind of thrill soon when Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride would go into the abuilding theme park a few miles out past the orange groves.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>