Los Angeles, 1956, part 2
Date: January 1956 Location: College Street bridge over the 110, Los Angeles, California Source: USC Digital Libraries What do you see here?
Date: January 1956 Location: College Street bridge over the 110, Los Angeles, California Source: USC Digital Libraries What do you see here?
Dan Gurney in 2016. Images courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Over the past six decades, Dan Gurney has earned remarkable success as a driver, team owner and constructor, but his ideas and designs ...
Here we thought we’d sufficiently scoured the Internet for traffic jam photos of yesteryear, but of course the Los Angeles area has an endless supply of traffic jams, so there’s still plenty more pho...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwo...
Jim and Chester’s posted this LA bank parking lot photo recently, and in the search for more info, we found it among a group of photos of the same bank – the Cathay Bank at 777 North Broadway – on th...
On spring afternoons, it’s common to find yourself driving home after a morning out at the various car shows that emerge as winter wanes. You leave content, having filled your quota of cool cars for ...
The photo above, which came from the Culture Ride Tumblog, might look a little strange, but it’s not the result of any sort of forced perspective or other camera tricks. Instead, the Beetle on the ri...
Once more to Los Angeles, where, perhaps moreso than anyplace else in the world, the parade of people on the streets proves just as interesting as the parade of cars driving past. While we’ve always ...
Why two shots of coffee shops at night in the Fifties in the Los Angeles area (and both from the same Tumblog, Those Old Cars )? If we’re to believe everything we see in movies – and, naturally, we w...
Think your rush hour traffic is bad? Check out this rush hour traffic from Los Angeles from the Forties. USC’s Digital Library, where we came across the photo, notes that it was taken at 5:00 p.m. on...
Returning to Los Angeles for today’s carspotting exercise, just because we can use all the blue skies and colorful cars we can get here in the middle of winter. As opposed to yesterday’s somewhat ano...
Thanks to Hollywood, pretty much everywhere you look in Los Angeles, there’s some iconic landmark in view. But even without all those landmarks, the wide avenues full of towering palms and the blue s...
Photo by David Zaitz/Courtesy of the Petersen Automotive Museum By now, you’ve almost certainly seen the outside of the recently revamped Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles; and, if not, we’ve...
As we can see from the modern-day Street View of the intersection of Washington Boulevard and 23rd Street in Los Angeles, where this group of photos was taken in February 1956 (from the USC Digital L...
Various crews of motorcycle riders in Los Angeles.