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Some of you may have seen this before but it's still a great color picture of Westwood at Wilshire, Los Angeles, 1946.

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I'm pretty sure that's at the La Brea tar pits, one of the biggest disappointments of my life.  I grew up in western New York with images of the Pits like this: labrea3.jpg

And 40 years old I turned off Wilshire to park.

 

Here is the corner today

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Now image how I did that 70 years later sitting in a house 3,000 miles away using a satellite connection and a computer powered from the Moses Power Plant at Niagara Falls. Didn't even need a tripod and an SLR camera.

Bernie

 

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44 minutes ago, Skyking said:

It must have been nice living in California those days.

I'd like to walk right into that picture, if it was possible!

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10 hours ago, 60FlatTop said:

I'm pretty sure that's at the La Brea tar pits, one of the biggest disappointments of my life. 

 

 

The Tar Pits are quite a bit east of Westwood. You didn't really expect saber tooth cats and mammoths, did you??

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