If you want to see Main Street in the 70s and 80s, your best bet is to rent Baretta and Hill Street Blues, respectively. In one HSB episode, two patrolmen started driving at 7th and Main and proceeded north. You could see every storefront on the east side of the street through the passenger window. I remember going frame by frame for three or four blocks.
I know that the Susan Hayward film “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” was filmed on 5th Street, but I haven’t seen that film available for rental. I saw it on AMC years ago.
I think 320 is to the far right of this 1973 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2ywmzh
Here is a 1984 photo. The blade looks a little different:
http://tinyurl.com/2mee53
This is an interesting photo from 1931. Hopefully it hasn’t already been posted:
http://tinyurl.com/2wevpk
There are three photos on this page from the CA State Library:
http://tinyurl.com/3yno54
There are seven photos on this page from the CA State Library:
http://tinyurl.com/2w33kx
There are four photos on this page from the CA State Library:
http://tinyurl.com/2wadap
There are 12 photos on this page from the CA State Library:
http://tinyurl.com/2s9966
Two from the CA State Library on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/2vztln
There are three nice photos on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/3axcu5
There are more photos on this page from the CA State Library:
http://tinyurl.com/33mja3
If anyone wants to see the Burger King in the lobby, here it is. The date is 1989:
http://tinyurl.com/2ls5gk
If anyone wants to see the Burger King in the lobby, here it is. The date is 1989:
http://tinyurl.com/2ls5gk
This 1954 photo shows the Roxy Loan Office at 438 S. Main, so presumably the theater arrived later:
http://tinyurl.com/2rj5jk
The Hippodrome is at the far end of this 1957 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2vf82e
Tearing up the promenade in 1965:
http://tinyurl.com/39lb5b
1992 from the Santa Monica PL:
http://tinyurl.com/2tjvml
I was in Calexico a few years ago. Nothing to write home about.
If you want to see Main Street in the 70s and 80s, your best bet is to rent Baretta and Hill Street Blues, respectively. In one HSB episode, two patrolmen started driving at 7th and Main and proceeded north. You could see every storefront on the east side of the street through the passenger window. I remember going frame by frame for three or four blocks.
A skating rink in LA? No wonder it went out of business.
I know that the Susan Hayward film “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” was filmed on 5th Street, but I haven’t seen that film available for rental. I saw it on AMC years ago.
I just ordered the film from Amazon. Thanks for the tip.
Not to be confused witn the theater of the same name in Fortaleza.
I took some pictures of this theater – will post as soon as I get them on a disk. Very picturesque area in downtown Fortaleza.
There is a short biography of Bill Clune on this page:
http://www.squareone.org/PolarPalace/index.html
Most likely the Main Street gym. Is this movie available on DVD?