Friday, April 22, 2011

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs

Sign for  Ace Pipe & Steel in Merced, CA.
I know nothing about what a good pipe & steel company is capable of, but if they can make a pipe big enough for a bull to walk through, they're ace's in my book 
Big Chief Cigars sign atop a Los Angeles smoking shop
Indeed...
Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles
Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, CA
Built in 1949, the oldest remaining Bob's Big Boy location

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Stars Fall on Observatory

Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park    Los Angeles, Ca.

That's a really big clock you've got there, mister!

Giant-sized cuckoo clock advertising installation at Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, CA.

R.S.V.P., Peonies

What is it that we're living for?

...Applause, Applause!
Rusted Applause Sign- Virgil Ave. City Yard

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Hollywood Sex Symbols

Elizabeth Taylor
Sophia Loren
Lana Turner
Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe
Judge Judith Sheindlin

On a Mission

Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana founded 1797
San Fernando Valley, CA
 
San Fernando Mission Church
 
Statue of Mission founder Father Fermin Lausen

Bob Hope burial site San Fernando Mission Cemetery
Bob Hope Memorial Garden
Bob Hope  (1903 - 2003)  gravestone