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“Trust” was submitted by Brenda Valcke in ITS. “It's a farm in my hometown in Belgium, and they sell potatoes,” Brenda writes. “The sign says ‘Serve yourself. Leave money on the stairs. Thank you. Don't forget.’" (In
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Streetcar home
Posted By: Scott Harrison
Dec. 10, 1950: Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Smith gardening in front of their Sun Valley streetcar home. Housing quarters are made up of retired cars that formerly operated on the Watts line. They’re all-electric and air-conditioned.
This image was published in a Dec. 10, 1950, edition of the Los Angeles Times not kept on microfilm. No further information is available about the Smith’s home. I did find one reference posted in 2009 entitled “Street Car Smith” at the Shorpy.com website. According to the post, Mr. Smith “strung [eight cars] together with short corridors between each car, using one as a kitchen, one as a family room, several as bedrooms etc.”
El Camino Real sign
Posted By: Scott Harrison
Jan. 14, 1936: El Camino Real sign located at the Asistencia, now a California Historical Landmark in Redlands.
While researching this image, I found two prints, one with a Paul Calvert byline on back and another with note “From E. F. Lindenberger… San Bernardino.”
My reaction – “Huh?”
Turns out Edwin F. Linderberger was a Times staff writer from the Inland Empire area. So while Calvert took this image, Linderberger probably wrote this caption when this image was published in the Jan. 22, 1936, Los Angeles Times:
By the side of the ancient roadway near Redlands, traveled by dusty feet of Spanish padres more than a century ago, this little butcher bird rested weary wings beneath the bell marking the trail, surveyed the restoration of the old mission station, the Asistencia, by a W.P.A. crew of adobe bricklayers and found the work good.
