Normandie Ave. Los Angeles.
Pacific Coast Highway, Sunset Beach.
Orange County Plaza, Garden Grove.
Coastline near Los Angeles.
Downtown Garden Grove.
Sunset Beach.
Prospect Plaza, Orange.
Alpha Beta Supermarket, Laguna Hills.
Vintage Snapshots: Southern California — Mid ’50s to Mid’60s
– Posted on October 25, 2024
Coastline near LA pic: wonder what kind of trees those are? Never seen anything like those.
They are palm trees badly in need of trimming the lower dead branches.
The trees remind me of a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon we watched yesterday with the Big Red Shaggy Monster.
And I neglected to note the bright RED Herald in the same image.
Boy, in that picture of the coastline near Los Angeles, those palm trees really need to be trimmed. Maybe back then they didn’t do that, but now they keep those dead lower limbs and leaves trimmed.
Easy to tell the difference between rich territory and working towns. Rich = imports and Caddies. Working = pickups and sedan deliveries and Ranch Wagons.
I didn’t get to California until the Summer of 1969, it hadn’t changed much from these pictures .
Now I need to go check Normandie & 1St. Ave., it’s changed a lot since then .
Most of the beach pictures looked the same through the mid 1970’s, I remember hitch hiking to the beach many times .
So many station wagons ! .
-Nate
An import and/or a pickup in almost every picture. The red Herald looks by far the newest and most modern in that Coast Highway shot.
Is that a white Studebaker in the lede photo? What about the green station wagon looking vehicle on the opposite side of Normandie?
It’s a Chrysler, and the wagon is a ’55 Chevy.
Back when SMOG covered most of L.A. much of the time. OTOH, there were still some “open” areas scattered throughout the “southland”! 🙂 It was rather nice out there…then.
Pic is of my wife’s first Super Bug with my ’56 Chevy behind at our apartment in Hawthorne, CA…circa 1970. DFO