Vintage SoCal

Buryl Polk breaks ground on Beverly Hills Drive, Los Angeles, 1927

  

Crowd listens to the World Series outside Sturgis radio store, Los Angeles, 1929

  

Crowds at 31st managers sale, Broadway department store, Los Angeles, 1931

  

Family outing, Los Angeles, 1935

  

 Homecroft Market, Los Angeles, 1930

  

Kern County, California, November 1938

[too late]

Vintage Southern California

 8th & Broadway, Los Angeles, 1927

  

 A couple looking at a blank billboard, San Diego, 1930

  

 An advertising hot air balloon, Southern California, 1930

  

 Boy and dog on a frozen lake

  

Arm in arm, Linda Vista, San Diego, 1930

Vintage Southern California

 Beheading at the Los Angeles Junior College (now Los Angeles 

City College) annual mud battle, February 1936

  

 Los Angeles Junior College annual mud battle, February 1936

  

 Los Angeles Junior College annual mud battle, February 1936

  

 Graduation party, Long Beach Auditorium, 1951

  

McDonald’s, Downey, California, September 6, 1954

Bel Air Bay Club

The Bel Air Bay Club, Pacific Palisades. The posh life in Southern California, 1931-32.

Vintage Los Angeles

 Carpenter’s Sandwiches, Sunset and Vine, Los Angeles, 1932

  

 Children receive free loaves of Thomas’ Vegetated 

Whole Wheat Bread, Los Angeles, 1928

  

Chorus girls and monkeys, Los Angeles, 1931

  

Factory girls canning Formay shortening, Los Angeles, 1935

  

Golden Rooster Barbecue, Los Angeles, 1940

 

Source: USC Digital Archives

USC

 In Los Angeles' 'Little Tokyo,' news of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor left shocked silence yesterday

  

 Mrs. Southern California, 6 September 1951. Mrs. Ruth Poger

  

 Posture Queen, Rosemead High School, 1960

[wow. high school has changed pretty radically in the last 50 years!]

  

 Riverside County Fair (Hemet), 26 August 1953. 

Jerra Lynne Tyler ("Farmer's Daughter of 1953")

  

 Santa Barbara road races, 1958

[hard to imagine a more iconic image of 1950s Southern California]

[my subtitle for this: "Fast and Furious: The Prequel" :)]

  

 Santa Monica beach, 1952

  

 USC sorority women gathered around a telephone, 1949

  

 USC sorority women pillow fight

  

Zeta Tau Alpha members costumed for a Halloween party, 1912

Southern California Beauties

From the USC archives.

 Miss Atomic Energy gets traffic ticket, 25 July 1951

  

 Miss Bay Beach contest, Ocean Park, 1952

  

 Miss Bicycle Queen of 1952

  

 Miss Big 10, 1955

  

 Miss Letter Carrier of 1952

  

 Miss Muscle Beach of 1954

  

 Miss Los Angeles Contest, 1954

  

Miss Recreation contest, 1958

Dick Whittington

 Babe Stapp and Gregg's ship, Santa Monica Airport, 1933

  

 Bathing girl in cretonne suit, Los Angeles, 1925

  

 Bathing girl, Southern California, 1931

   

 Bathing suits, Southern California, 1931

  

 Bathing suits, Southern California, 1931

  

 Beauty parlor, Southern California, 1933

  

 Betty Garry at Magnolia Park, Burbank, California, 1928

  

 Bill Meikeljohn Show at Bard's Theater, Southern California, 1927

  

 Billie Barnes in Spanish costume, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA, 1928

  

 Boys driving to Mexico City, Southern California, 1930

  

 Breakfast club group, Southern California, 1930

  

Breakfast Club with Olympic champions, Southern California, 1929