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traffic jam in Los Angeles, on the 5, all 6 lanes wide, for miles and miles.

Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, 1900


and in the lower right hand side of the photo, this velocipede


biking was at it's zenith, and people were in love with freedom and mobility. This was why and entrepreneur built the elevated cycleway for bicyclists to glide from Pasadena to Los Angeles, well, he tried. He did get a mile and a half completed. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/07/forgotten-history-of-what-might-have.html for photos and an article about that ambitious project


http://collection.pasadenadigitalhistory.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16237coll8/id/241/rec/59
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1939-40 Packard 120 Convertible Coupes with a rumble seat and a small trunk, or, it could be a couple other cars. They all looked very similar A Buick Century


https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelryerson/9592610067/

Thanks Steve!

a 1939-40 Packard 120 Convertible Coupe



1937 LaSalle Convertible Coupe Model 5067

or is it a Buick Century?


the bumperettes are wrong on all these examples, but look how similar they all appear

Eddie Meyer, icon of hot rodding... also sold airplanes. I just learned that


in the far upper right hand corner of the above photo is a sign, it says Eddie Meyer something something


in 1946, Eddie Meyer sold used airplanes on Vermont and Third. The aircraft were transported by using vacant strips of land as makeshift runways. Most likely they were WW2 military surplus, or planes so obsolete for most purposes, and now replaced by the flood of surplus WW2 planes, that they were more useless than used cars

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truck carrying Rickenbacker Brougham going down Colorado Street, Pasadena. 1924

Howards Motor Co

Cool airplane, and check out how neat they did the interior. 1930, Los Angeles

George Carlin and his TA

1932 Los Angeles gas station, cool gas pumps

steam roller, 1910, Los Angeles

check out the cool spare tire advertising piece, and the rear bumper, that looks quite home made

this is an odd looking car in Los Angeles, 1920's or 10s

how freaking hard does a car have to hit a power pole to snap it off up by the top?


1951 Sepulveda Blvd, South of Mulholland Drive, the driver said she was doing 35 mph, and fell asleep at the wheel. Busted arm, pelvis, and scrapes, and probably was ok after she got out of the hospital.


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