/r/VintageLA
Here you will find pictures and stories of LA from the good ol' days.
If you post a photo, try to post your source or any additional information in the comments. If you cannot find a source or extra information, please say so in the comments so others may help. Failure to follow this rule on multiple occasions, may result in a temporary ban. If you post Original Content, mark as [OC] so we can all congratulate you.
Welcome to VintageLA
Here you will find pictures and stories of LA from the good ol' days.
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- Be Civil.
- If you post a photo, try to post your source or any additional information in the comments. If you cannot find a source or extra information, please say so in the comments so others may help. Failure to follow this rule on multiple occasions, may result in a temporary ban.
- If you post Original Content, mark as [OC] so we can all congratulate you.
- Try posting what the view looks like now via Google Maps. It's always fun to see how much things have changed.
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[OC] The Venice Amusement pier in Los Angeles in 1933 and the same spot today. Only the rocks forming the breakwater remain. From my video documentary on the locations used in this film. More details in the photo.
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[OC] Downtown Los Angeles exactly 100 years ago and the same view today. More details at bottom of the photo.
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[OC] I posted a then and now photo from this film a few days ago. Here's part of my filming locations then and now video documentary, 1930 vs today from The Little Rascals film Bear Shooters.
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[OC] The Little Rascals. Filming location, then and now. More details at bottom of the photo.
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[OC] Anaheim Plaza, 1997
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Early aerial photo of Santa Monica circa 1920
A relative snapped this photo while leaning over the side of a Curtis Jenny (JN-4) biplane in 1920. I'm trying to pinpoint the exact location. Does anyone recognize the court/roundabout in the foreground?
Btw, black = green, so the areas that look burned or covered in crude oil are actually lush green vegetation.
EDIT: um, did I say Santa Monica in 1919? I meant Hollywood in 1920.
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Looking east along on Hollywood Boulevard at night, Hollywood, 1951. - Photograph by Ralph Crane for LIFE Magazine.
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Old Los Angeles, Beverly Hills in color (Restored)
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Here is the Pacific Electric headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles, c. 1925, with car 1231 about to depart for Long Beach. Today, this is the home of Pacific Electric Lofts, an upscale apartment building. Photo from the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation collection.
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Lupe Vélez. Los Ángeles. Date unknown.
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Old Hollywood Hills 1920s in color (Restored)
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María Teresa de Barajas Rodríguez on her wedding day. Los Angeles. 1925.
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The El Monte Busway in 1973
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Maria Guadalupe Velez, known in Hollywood as Lupe Velez, wearing a long gingham dress with a white collar, in the den of her Beverly Hills home. Circa 1940.
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Anyone remember Georg's Fine Jewelry Glendale?
Hi!
I recently found an older watch that belonged to one of my family members and I'm trying to narrow down a time period for when this watch was purchased as it will help me attach what family member that belongs to.
My aunt lived in Glendale most of her life and this watch definitely looks like something she would have.
Does anyone remember a jewelry store called "Georg's Fine Jewelry Glendale"?
Here's a pic of the box: https://imgur.com/lUEJszb (This is the jewelry box I found with a watch inside.)
If anyone knows when this store was around that could help me piece together who the watch belongs to. TIA!
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The sleek interior of a Gales Coffee Shop, one of ten in the greater Los Angeles area, typically located in or adjacent to a Rexall/Drug King store (circa 1963, Rexall Drug and Chemical Company photo).
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Early 1960s shot of a Denny's in Lakewood, California, originally called Danny's before the name was changed to avoid confusion with rival Coffee Dan's (1962).
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A freight train heads east along Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, making its last regular midnight run on a rainy night back in January 1973
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Wonderful Old Los Angeles 1940s
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In 1959, ten years before Stonewall, Mexican-American writer John Rechy took part in a gay uprising called the Cooper's Donuts Riot in Los Angeles
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Famed actress Dolores Del Rio in 1952
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Goodnight LA - Los Angeles Music Video Show - Local Bands - July 12 (1985)
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