I just found this astonishing panorama and had to share it. You can find the photo on the website for the Huntington Library’s digital archive project. The subject of the photo is the beach next to the Lick Pier that once straddled the southern border of Santa Monica. The detail captured is quite remarkable. I downloadedContinue reading “The End of the Boardwalk, 1929”
Category Archives: History
LAX, September 1961
You have to love this. I found this while browsing USC’s digital archives. I can’t believe how empty it all looks. I guess maybe it wasn’t until the space race that LA stopped being such a sleepy beach town. Source: Aerial view of the control tower administration building at the new jet age terminal at LosContinue reading “LAX, September 1961”
Cold War II
And the name fits. I’m glad to see the mainstream news media is giving it some attention. Admittedly, it has a nicer ring than to than does “World War III”. It started after Vladimir Putin changed history by invading an independent country, Ukraine, and seizing its Republic of Crimea. I grew up during the end of the firstContinue reading “Cold War II”
Abbot Kinney at Westminster During Prohibition
Another great print scanned by the USC Digital Library. This one shows the intersection of Westminster Avenue at Abbot Kinney. The perspective is looking to the southeast, in the southerly direction of traffic.
World News: April 7, 2016
So, there’s this cheery little quote I ran across today: “Iraq remains the center of what Jordanian King Abdullah now refers to as the Third World War.” Source: World War Three may have already begun in Iraq and Syria Let’s hope he’s wrong. In other news mid-east news, the House of Saud has become the number threeContinue reading “World News: April 7, 2016”
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