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Carrol Gordon Cluck The lower middle looks like it might be Burroughs Jr. Hi. The main streets even look like mostly dirt. Not much in Studio Bldgs. or St. Joseph's hospital at this time.
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In 1956, my friend Rod Pack had a new black 1956 Chev Bel-Air hardtop with
automatic transmission and a 4 barrel. We had been to the drag races in
San Fernando, and his car was fast. As I recall 85 MPH. So we decided
to go to the drag races way down in Santa Ana. Now in 1956 the freeway
ended in some place like Norwalk, and this was going to be a long trip.
So we left at about 4 AM. When we crossed the Olive Ave bridge by the
Smoke House, I saw a bowling ball laying in the gutter. We made a quick
stop, and I grabbed the ball. It was a rental ball taken from the
Magnolia Bowling Alley, and was in bad shape. We guessed someone had
rolled the ball down Barham Blvd. We continued on our trip and pulled
onto a nearly empty Hollywood Freeway. Rod ran his Chev up to 100 MPH,
and I decided to throw the ball out the window at 100 MPH. Later in
college physics I learned that an object in motion tends to remain in
motion. So here we go down the hill into Hollywood, following a bowling
ball at 100 MPH. We were so lucky that we were the only traffic in the
road. At the bottom of the hill, the freeway turns east, but the ball
continued south, over Cahunga Blvd., across a park, and into a stand of palm
trees where the ball stopped. We had a good laugh, then realization set
in that we were lucky. I have always wondered what the gardener thought
when this ball was found.
One evening in about 1954 we found 5 or 6 telephone Yellow Page books laying in the trash. Now what could we do with these? I came up with an idea that turned out spectacular. We tore out all the pages and made a stack about 2 feet high. We then took them to the intersection of Magnolia and Buena Vista. When there was no traffic, we carried this stack of loose pages to the center of the intersection, and set them down. The first car buy peeled of about 5 pages, the next 5 more, and so on. In about 15 minutes the air was full of yellow pages, and we thought we had better go home. The next morning there were yellow pages all over the neighborhood from Clark to Chandler and Keystone to Catalina. I think every yard within this area had a yellow page in the yard.
It was a warm day, probably in 1955, and a fellow classmate and I thought it
would be a great day to go to Malabu Beach with our girl friends. Now, some
where in this great class of 55 photos is a picture of 3 girls in their best
one-piece swim suits. This is typical of what our girls wore for the day.
We made it to the beach in his Ford, spread the blanket, took a dip in the
Pacific, and returned to the blanket to warm in the sun. We ate a
little, had some Coke (soda pop), enjoy the company, and eventually lay back
on the blanket for some sun.
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NBC Studio taken in 2002 Donna Duncan's home on Brighton taken in 2002 Denny Grossman and neighborhood kids taken in 1949
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Bradley's Hardware Store As it looks in 2002 Tom Jandt's home on Brighton taken in 2002 The Grossman home at Christmas
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Verdugo Swim Park Susan Miller's home taken in 2002
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Aerial View of Burbank taken in 1954 Lockheed Airport Terminal & parking lot Bob's Restaurant San Fernando Road The grand opening of the California Theater Hansen Dam
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Burbank City Hall Lockheed Airport Terminal Bob's Restaurant Bob Wian is at the right Hollywood Freeway
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Olive Street The Lockheed Plant with camouflage 1942 Robert's Drive Inn Victory & Olive Ventura Freeway Warner Bros. Studio
This is but a small sample of the pictures presented in this great collection.
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