[G]A very cool photo archive[G - sort of]
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[G]A very cool photo archive[G - sort of]
Especially for Cali folks.
Over 60,000 historic photos from multiple sources going all the way back to before the 20th century. Lots of cool old pics of LA and other areas in SoCal and LoCal.
Just put in a keyword search and start browsing.
Unfortunately you can't link them so you have to C&P to a hosting site to display.
A few examples:
Koufax in 1964, holding his Cy Young, MVP and Sporting News Awards.
Jack Dempsey with some Del Mar jockeys in 1937
Some Cubs at Spring Training on Catalina Island (yes they had spring training there back then), in 1930. Hack Wilson is on the far left in the top photo.
Santa Monica Blvd. in 1924 when they still had electic street cars in LA.
Note the traffic cop in the middle of the street.
Over 60,000 historic photos from multiple sources going all the way back to before the 20th century. Lots of cool old pics of LA and other areas in SoCal and LoCal.
Just put in a keyword search and start browsing.
Unfortunately you can't link them so you have to C&P to a hosting site to display.
A few examples:
Koufax in 1964, holding his Cy Young, MVP and Sporting News Awards.
Jack Dempsey with some Del Mar jockeys in 1937
Some Cubs at Spring Training on Catalina Island (yes they had spring training there back then), in 1930. Hack Wilson is on the far left in the top photo.
Santa Monica Blvd. in 1924 when they still had electic street cars in LA.
Note the traffic cop in the middle of the street.
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Way back when, they had those in Portland. They took them out.Mikey wrote:Santa Monica Blvd. in 1924 when they still had electic street cars in LA.
Now, they're spending a bunch of dough putting them back in.
May the circle be unbroken, or some shit.
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Back in the early and mid 90s I was working for the EPA in the indoor environments program. We had a project where we went to a bunch of office buildings in different parts of the country to collect data on indoor air quality and HVAC systems. We set up four indoor stations and one outdoor station in each building that would measure things like CO2, CO, temperature, humidity, particulates, airborne fungi and bacteria for a week, and we'd do detailed evaluatioms of the ventilation systems. At the outdoor station we also collected weather data like wind speed and direction, solar irradiation and precipitation.Dinsdale wrote:Way back when, they had those in Portland. They took them out.Mikey wrote:Santa Monica Blvd. in 1924 when they still had electic street cars in LA.
Now, they're spending a bunch of dough putting them back in.
May the circle be unbroken, or some shit.
One of the buildings we visited was a large old office building in downtown Portland. I can't remember the name of the building, but it was turn of the century vintage, maybe 12 stories tall in a U-shape, with the center of the "U" filled by about 3 floors of occupied space, making the footprint of the lower floors a rectangle. The windows on the inside of the upper floors looked down on the roof of the center section. I'm pretty sure that it was some kind of government building, maybe municipal, but not completely sure.
Anyway, one day the building engineer took me on a tour of the entire building. In the first basement level there was a single door that, when he opened it, looked out into a huge empty black space. He reached in and flicked on a light switch, and several bare bulbs came on to dimly light up the space. It must have been 40 or 50 feet deep and about 100 feet in each horizontal direction. The door opened up on a small landing from which metal stairway descended diagonally down the wall to the bottom of the space.
We walked down to the bottom of the stairs. The floor was somewhat littered with pieces of scrap, broken glass, concrete, wires and shit. Off to the side you could see an area where there were columns and one or two extra floors had been built up above the bottom level, with large rooms underneath. My first impression was that this would make a very cool nightclub. In one of these rooms were a bunch of old metal racks and some glass electric insulators like they used to use on power lines.
It turns out that at the turn of the 20th century, this was the DC generating station for the downtown Portland streetcar system. One of those rooms had been full of huge batteries. It had been pretty much abandoned since they took out the streetcars and never used for anything else since. Very cool of the guy to show me around.
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Mikey wrote:Very cool of the guy to show me around.
Very cool...since Mr U&L hasn't gotten to see that.
The first few new steetcars when they started rebuilding the lines a couplafew years ago must have been purchased by a Dolphins fan...since they were the same colors. I was glad to see that shit go.
Props to San Fran(I think there's other places, too). It just seems like tearing the streetcar infrastructure out altogether in an urban environment is just straight-up dumb.
But with what we know now...you don't want to be under any of those old buildings when the Big One hits.
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Had a real good time in Portland. A week at the beginning of the project and another week one year later. Didn't have much time to cruise around, but we stayed in a small hotel run by hippies and they rented bicycles on the bottom floor. A small restaurant on the second floor with organic type food and good brewskies. Walking distance from a lot of other good eatin' places. Had some Indian food that just about blew the top of my head off.
Knocking Catcher Marty Polka's mask off (arrow) was Joe DiMaggio's ony "hit" of the day when he made his debut with Santa Ana Air Base, beating Fullerton J.C., 6 to 4, yesterday. Photo dated: March 27, 1943
...and a few years later...
Group photo, from left to right: Casey Stengel, Joe DiMaggio, Gen. William F. Dean, Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe. Photo dated: December 19, 1953
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why did this turn into the creepy looking guy pic thread?
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Apparently the library is a touch squimish.Mikey wrote:
The murder scene
(For whatever reason, I can't post the image alone)
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_m ... lia/2.html
I've seen those other pics too. The body was covered with a blanket before they took the shot. It's apparently the only one they have in their archive.Cornhusker wrote:
Apparently the library is a touch squimish.
(For whatever reason, I can't post the image alone)
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_m ... lia/2.html
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Santa Monica Blvd. in 1924 when they still had electic street cars in LA.
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What, do I look the Smackie_the_Shrubber to you?The Whistle Is Screaming wrote:... and you didn't call me?Smackie Chan wrote: Went to the Baseball HoF yesterday,
I'm no expert on small-town America. But I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express. The one just outside the village of Index. Not sure why, but it seemed pretty liberal. I thought Cooperstown was cool, too, although I wasn't there long. Got in Sunday night, went to the HoF (and the Baseball Wax Museum, which was pretty weak), and came back home last night.Cooperstown is a cool little town.
Yeah. My son is on fall break from school in CA and is out here visiting. Thought it would be a cool father-son bonding experience to take him to Cooperstown. We're going to the Big Easy tomorrow for a few days. Might get in some different kind of bonding on Bourbon St.You up here just for the HoF?
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Drawing of a combined Los Angeles International Airport. Drawing shows a new Santa Monica Island with a subway connecting to the aiports (bottom) and a causeway, bridges and subway at the top of drawing. The island will have provisions for the SST, with 2-15,000 ft. runways. The island will also have its own commercial area, hotels, art center, trade center and office building, apartments, parks and beaches, an aerospace university and a sports center. Drawn by architect R. Donald Jaye. Photo dated: March 12, 1968.
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