In Lee's little corner of the World

[Lee]

I live right downtown in Glendale, California. There is always something going on just about every time I go outside. As you all know, I love to take pictures of what I see. So I decided to start this thread so I would have a place to put all my miscellaneous pictures.

[Lee]

First off, kitty corner from me there is a concrete and steel church that was built in 1925. It is in the process of being repainted. I am lucky in that I can go up to the fourth floor and take photos.



Here is the little cherry picker being used while they are stripping the paint from the wood work on the windows and doors.




Then the other morning I found this parked outside:




The tower is six stories high:





The pressure washer is on the little lift:







The photographer from the local newspaper showed up:

[jackfitz1944]

Nice photos Lee, when I saw the first picture I thought it was one of Jerry's dioramas.

[skunk]

Haha! I had the exact same though, it wasn't until I realized that those were modern cars surrounding the church that I understood what was going on...

[cfesmire]

Red is taking quite a chance taking photos under the power washing.

[Lee]

Here is a little jewel that I found right in the heart of town. Nature still is the best weatherer.

[Lee]

Warner Bros used our building for shooting part of a movie yesterday. Here is a shot taken the day before at my red curb where they were unloading a couple of cherry pickers:



Here is the same place the next day. This is the chow line. ;D



Here is a shot looking across the street at all the wardrobe trailers:


A scene being filmed on the back steps:


A night shot showing the cherry pickers being used to hold the lights up in the air. The four little trees on the left are not real.


But the prize was parked right out front. This is a tractor with two generators behind the cab. I have seen lots of rigs, but never anything with this much chrome. It even has chromed frame bolt covers.








The pickup that was with it has chrome fuel tanks.

[Lee]

What is it?

[skunk]

Subaru Baja, I believe it was called. They were quite common in yellow as well, essentially a four-door car with a tiny pickup bed. If it was a cheap version without the plastic cladding and alloys, this could have been quite the seller in poorer parts of the world. As it is, these Bajas spend most of their time befuddling city-dwellers.

[cfesmire]

Subaru does have a way of coming up with these quirky little pickups. Remember the Brat?

Lee, I love the wagon, great weathered wood prototype shots.

And that Pete cabover is another good modeling subject.

[stanhas87]

skunk said:

Subaru Baja, I believe it was called. They were quite common in yellow as well, essentially a four-door car with a tiny pickup bed. If it was a cheap version without the plastic cladding and alloys, this could have been quite the seller in poorer parts of the world. As it is, these Bajas spend most of their time befuddling city-dwellers.

Dear All:

Yeah, this is right; I just saw one today.
I been going yearly to Los Angeles Auto Show early since 1999 in order to come home with some five pounds of brochures, so I have one of this truck (plus some other advertising its release) somewhere around the apartment.

[Lee]

Glendale is a fairly new city as far as the world goes. It was incorporated in 1906. The same year a gentleman named Brand wanted to bring the Pacific Electric street car into the area. The city fathers wanted all kinds of things done so he ran the line just to the west of the city limits. Today that route he choose is now the main drag of Glendale. Here is the incorporation map. He ran the track up on the left side.



Here is a picture of the Pacific Electric station at Brand and Broadway (Fifth street on the map) shortly after the line opened.



Glendale boomed in the 20's. Here is a shot looking up brand about the same area. That six story building on the right is built where the station was.



A little farther up Brand:


Here we are again in the 50's



This is a shot looking east on Broadway back in 1906. The building on the left is a hotel which my folks bought in 1946 and I grew up in.



Here is a shot looking north on Maryland:


Here are two pan shots that must have been taken from on top of the old BofA building, which is long gone. The first shows the station and the second shows the Bank in its place.




Glendale had the first air terminal on the west coast. TWA started there.


A night shot showing how Brand used to be decorated for Christmas.


And here is the main motion picture theater on Brand.

[jackfitz1944]

Thanks for sharing the photos with us, I never tire of looking at street scenes. I take it the tracks no longer run down the center of the street.

[Lee]

Nope! The street car stopped running in 1956. They "improved" the street by widening the sidewalks and put in center islands with trees. It used to be three lanes each way and now is two lanes each way.

Here is what the same corner looks like today. About the only thing that you can identify is the six story bank building.

[Sylvain]

Yes, Thanks Lee for these pictures. I too like these street scenes a lot.