Back in October I discovered that mesmerizing long-lost film clip on YouTube, filmed from a streetcar in San Francisco. Purported to have been filmed just days before the 1906 earthquake and saved because it was reportedly shipped out of town before the disaster, there’s debate about that owing not only to the sheer coincidence but …
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Click image for maximum panoramification The extensive clean-up and return of this mural — “La Ofrenda” by Yreina Cervantes — to its 1989 glory isn’t new. It’s been minus the layers of tags that obliterated its lower half and back to its original self for well over a month now (at least). I would have …
I’ve had this image for several weeks, found in one of my swims through the LA Public Library’s digital archives, but I’ve refrained from posting it because the information packaged with the image is sparse. It lists this is street scene as Sunset and Castelar in 1890, but I’d never heard and could find on …
Just watch: Thanks to Tony Pierce for introducing this to me.
I’m not much on absolute favorites. I’m much more a “Top 5” or “Top 10” kind of guy — the sort who always qualifies his appreciation of things, inserting “one of” into anything I’m glowing and crowing about. “That is one of my favorite Frank Lloyd Wright residences.” “My 19th birthday? One of the best …
What is it about vintage images of everyday street scenes, such as this one from the northwest corner of Hollywood & Vine in the early 1950s (hat-tip to LA Observed)? I can’t help but extensively examine and explore them as if they are some archaeological find. Yet should someone venture out this afternoon with a …
Click image for the bigger picture Next in my occasional trippings down memory lane through the Los Angeles Public Library’s digital archives, I share with you this blast from the past. Undated, but if the visible vehicles are any indication probably taken somewhere around the late 1920s to early ’30s, we find Carpenter’s Drive-In that …