Showing posts with label california. Show all posts
Showing posts with label california. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2026

The Trio

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  Another true found photograph.  I had to walk to the store this morning, and there it was, in the middle of the sidewalk.  It looks like i...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Forklift Girls

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   I purchased this photo from the same antique store and at the same time as the previous post, and while I can't be sure, I'm goin...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Pull My Plunger, Please

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  Why is the woman holding up a toilet bowl plunger to one of the models?  Maybe she was Miss Plumbing Supplies.  Anyway, I've been pick...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Leona & Bob

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  Written on the back, "Leona & Bob and the Magil family.  San Mateo 1952."   Fascinating.  The Magil family appear to be Lati...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Musso & Frank

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    Musso & Frank is old Hollywood. It was opened in 1919 by French immigrant Firmin "Frank" Toulet. I guess Frank was easier ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

The Rainbow Pier, Long Beach, California

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  It always seems like Long Beach is looking for another tourist attraction.  Right now, it's the Queen Mary and the Long Beach Aquarium...
Friday, July 7, 2023

The Mission Inn

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    Written on the back, "Mission Inn-Riverside, Calif."  Frank Miller opened The Mission Inn in 1876.  It started out as an adobe...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Sailing to Catalina

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   Well, more than likely steaming to Catalina. Is that how it would have been said back when this picture was taken? Written on the back, ...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Los Angeles Indiana 4

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  This is the flip side of an album page that I've already posted.  (Click on The Los Angeles Indiana Collection in labels to bring ever...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Los Angeles Indiana 1

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  Every so often I'll write about how unhappy I am that antique sellers cut up photo albums and sell individual pages or prints which, o...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Straigh Outta Compton

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  Whenever possible I try and do some research on my posts, and I found a lot of interesting stuff about these three photos.  It starts with...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Palm Springs

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  Written on the back, "Palm Springs 1946."  The man looks like he's about the right age to have been a World War 2 veteran, a...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Pierpoint Landing

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  This postcard was never sent, so I don't have an exact date that I can reference in this post.  Just going by the cars, I'm thinki...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Krystal Gloss Prints 6

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  Time to finish up with a couple of dogs trying to climb a ladder. I suspect it leads to a rickety wooden bridge crossing the river.  It lo...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Krystal Gloss Prints 5

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  We're getting near the end of this collection.  Only two more images and then it's done.  I tried blowing the top print up, and wh...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

North Hollywood

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  Just enough of the license plate holder is readable to see that this Rambler station wagon was purchased from a dealership in North Hollyw...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Krystal Gloss Prints 4

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  As a rule, I don't post lab stamps, but I rather like the Bear Photo Service logo.  So, is it a river, or is it a lake?  I'm about...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Krystal Gloss Prints 3

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  Of the pictures in this small booklet, it's the second one in this column that interested me the most.  It looks like a river ferry.  ...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Krystal Gloss Prints 2

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   There are only a few photos in this collection that I would have wanted if they hadn't been in this little photo booklet, and the sec...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Krystal Gloss Prints 1

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  If you're old enough, and I am, you'll have memories of taking a roll of black and white film to the local drug store and coming b...