/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.
Rules
- 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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Ramona Frías, née Fonseca, in a zoot suit in 1944. Some young American women challenged gender norms by wearing zoot suits, a style iconicised by working-class Mexican-American men among others.
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Wonderful Night on Broadway, Los Angeles in color (Restored)
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[OC] From the Charlie's Angels episode Angels on the Street. Filming location then and now, 1979 vs today. More details in the box in the photo. If you've been both to the old and current downtown of Culver City, which do you like better?
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Reseda, California
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[OC] Time travel back to 1979 with Charlie's Angels! Here's the last of four quick preview videos I've excerpted from my full filming location documentary video showing the filming locations used in the episode Angels On The Street.
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María Félix—star of 1950s cinema—posing in Cartier jewelry in Los Angeles. 1967.
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Manny Zellman inside his men's clothing store, located at 2306 Brooklyn Avenue (later César E. Chávez Avenue) in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA (1983).
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[OC] Palms, 1929 vs Today
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[OC] Charlie's Angels in Culver City (with a small piece of LA). Filming locations then and now 1979 vs today. Preview video 3 of 4. From the episode Angels on the Street.
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Ozcot, L. Frank Baum's Hollywood Home [OC]
If anyone's interested, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz author built a house, Ozcot, at the corner of Cherokee and Yucca in Hollywood. I pulled together its history, with lots of great exterior/interior photos from the California State Library Foundation: https://www.beforethe101.com/post/ozcot-l-frank-baum-hollywood
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[OC] Culver City in the 70s! Another of my then and now photos from Charlie's Angels. For you old timers you'll likely notice in the top photo the Pacific Electric Railway substation building at the intersection of Culver Blvd and Venice AND the cars parked in the middle of Culver Blvd!
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[OC] The north end of North Larchmont Blvd hasn't changed TOO much since 1936. More details at bottom of the photo.
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[OC] 1979 vs Today. From the Charlie's Angels episode Angels on the Street. Filming locations, then and now. This is quick preview video 2 of 4 from my full filming location documentary.
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[OC] Urban-renewal on full display. From the Charlie's Angels episode Angels on the Street. More details at the bottom of the photo.
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Ramón Novarro pictured in Los Angeles circa 1950. A proud homosexual man, Novarro would be killed in a tragic anti-gay hate crime roughly 18 years later.
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[OC] 95 years ago vs today in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. More details at bottom of the photo.
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Four different filming locations around Los Angeles, then and now. More details at bottom of the photo.
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The "A" Cleaning Service hanger [OC]
I found this hanger in my 100+ year old attic in Seattle's Capitol Hill. I suspect that this is from Los Angeles's Olympic Blvd based on the added information of "Between Norton and Bronson".
I'm curious as to the approximate date of this object. Google was not much of a friend here. The address now is a parking lot, it seems - is there an online way to determine when it actually was a cleaners? When did L.A. go to 7 digit dialing? Even the font might be a hint...?
Any thoughts?
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[OC] 1979 vs today courtesy of Charlie's Angels. Filming locations, then and now, from the episode Angeles on the Street. Quick preview video 1 of 4.
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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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