Stove Pipe Wells Hotel, Death Valley National Monument.
Main St., Big Bear.
Civic Center from Hollywood freeway, Los Angeles.
Main Street, Visalia.
Santa Fe Depot, San Bernardino.
Downtown Bakersfield.
Grossmont Hospital, San Diego.
Parker Inspection Station at Vidal Junction.
Farmer’s Market, Los Angeles.
Country Club Shopping Center, Sacramento.
Bullock’s Department Store, Pasadena.
Danny’s Cliff Chalet, San Francisco.
Travelodge, La Jolla Beach.
Hollywood And Vine, Hollywood.
Jeffrey’s Restaurant, Palm Springs.
The San Bernardino depot shows a 1930s era car with the trunk converted to a pickup. Most likely this was done during WW2 rationing, as trucks got more gas than cars.
32/34 Ford 5 window coupe, those pickup beds were an aftermarket kit, that discussion may have taken place here at CC?
Nice 47/50 AD Chevy pickup to the right.
I look at these photos and imagine how much happier people were in those days with little. I think we need to live at that pace today.
I know I do.
Two little Brits in these, a Consul at Farmers Market and a Vanguard at Cliff Chalet.
“Cali” and all those “convert, tops” up?
The SoCal pictures are missing one thing: the smog that often blanketed the region in those days. I arrived in summer 1972 in the era before catalytic converters and it was very bad. The air is still not the healthiest but it is way more comfortable without the eye-watering, cough-inducing yellow/brown overcast. I remember driving into LA from Phoenix that first summer night and the strange chemical smell coming in through the A/C. I still love California all these decades later.
Will take the blue Mustang convertible in Palm Springs.
For me the street scenes depicting the vehicles from around ’48 to ’54 are my favorites.
The body styles with their pontoon-like fenders and fastback designs always take me in.
Thanks for such a great series!