Happy to report that work continues on the Aztec's room renovations, but slowly. The manager who was running the social…
On The Aztec Hotel: Monrovia’s Route 66 Relic
I used to eat at this Van de Kamp's restaurant about once a week with my parents back in the…
On Picture This: Van De Kamps Coffee Shop and Drive-in, Atwater Village
I lived in the Magnolia area from 1950 through 1962 and walked by it in my younger years. Theodore Roosevelt…
On Remembering Burbank’s Great Pumpkin Building
Aloha Cindy, I am a member of the Outrigger Canoe Club Historical Committee and I am researching and writing THE…
On The Moana Hotel, a Banyan Tree, and Waikiki Beach Boys
my grandmothers name was Ethel Ryan. I have a very old photograph of her in a dutch outfit standing outside…
On Picture This: Van De Kamps Coffee Shop and Drive-in, Atwater Village
[…] Some beautiful antique postcards of the original Stanford Angel of Grief […]
On The Stanford University Angel and a Murder Mystery at the Moana Hotel (1 of 2 parts)
I love that photo! Did you see this: http://www.lfia.org/RegPages/historicalimages/LFIA%20Historic%20Survey%20Volume%203%20D-G%20streets.pdf Some Pacific Ready Cut Homes are discussed.
On California Bungalows in the Mail: When Pacific Ready-Cut Homes Ruled the L.A. Burbs
CB, My Dad was the one who taught me the ins-and-outs of driving in Southern California. He'd have me, as…
On About Me L1OTB
I remember the Pumpkin Hardware store. I was born there in 1948, and still live in Burbank. My connection to…
On Remembering Burbank’s Great Pumpkin Building
what was your mother's name? my grandma worked there in 1959 and I've been reading her diaries of her working…
On Picture This: Van De Kamps Coffee Shop and Drive-in, Atwater Village