Alright, here it is: I'm pretty much a huge, unashamed postcard collector.
I have a few vintage Los Angeles postcards, and this plan to find the locations and try to get as close to the same shot as I can, for a sort of now version. Today I tracked down these two on Hollywood Boulevard:
In the postcards, you can see the electric rail tracks on the road. LA used to have this pretty expansive electric railway set-up, but there was I guess a big corruption/scandal and by 1963 all the tracks were torn up, and buses/cars replaced the trolleys! It's all part of the Great American Streetcar Scandal, where car, tire and oil companies teamed up and ran the railroads out business to increased car sales. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? alluded to the situation, when the big wigs were attempting to sell toontown in order to make room for a freeway.
Anyway, Thanks GM for my 45 minute, 8 mile bus ride...I wish I took a streetcar to work.
I have a few vintage Los Angeles postcards, and this plan to find the locations and try to get as close to the same shot as I can, for a sort of now version. Today I tracked down these two on Hollywood Boulevard:
Anyway, Thanks GM for my 45 minute, 8 mile bus ride...I wish I took a streetcar to work.
