101, 102, whatever it takes.

Yep....over lakes basin to hi way 89. Tons of fun. Right outside my door.

I think that Azusa sign was on Azusa (Route 39) and Foothill (Route 66)?

But Sammy... what about the horrible shopping mall shortage in SoCal!?!

I don't really need green type for that.... right?

Newport blvd and pacific coast highway

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Las Vegas is the place where the Trailer Trash from the rest of America gets stuck when they run out of gasoline money on their way to CA.

Conversely Las Vegas is the destination of CA multi Millionaires as it is a tax haven. Guys who can afford their own Gulf Streams and fly to CA to get a haircut.

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Naugles had the best food in the world, at 2:30 am Sunday morning.

It's always 2:30 somewhere in the world thus the 24 HRS. on the sign.

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I remember the massive amount of paper wrappers and trash in the parking lot the next morning ........ it was thee place to cure the munchies.

From what I heard.

I remember those trolley cars which they called the "Big Red Cars" which was a public transit system starting in 1887 which went as far east as San Bernardino and west to Santa Monica. It was rather sophisticated for it's day...by the time I arrived on the scene in the 50's they were RTD Green...I remember them in downtown LA...was on one once if I recall?

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That picture with the Trolley car is probably Valley Blvd which I believe followed the SP tracks east and was one of the two major through fairs east. You could go from downtown to Pomona on Valley. Today there are stoplights at every block. (The San Bernardino freeway basically parallels the old Valley route for a good part of the way} but before the freeways that is how you got around. You can read about that journey in the Raymond Chandler narrative in the Big Sleep.

The other through fair was Route 66 which was to the north and followed the Santa FE tracks.

If you wanted to go to the beach from Azusa you went down Route 39 which became Beach Blvd..going past Knotts Berry Farm and winding up in I believe Huntington Beach. The other way was to go down Rosemead from Pasadena to Long Beach. So it was basically a days excursion to go to the beach down these old Blvds. At one time they were just dirt roads surrounded by farm land.

LOL in the 50's I weren't born yet and I'm old ;)

If you look directly behind that trolley car you'll see that same old brew 102 building, just from a different angle.


I drove beach blvd from Azusa to Huntington beach one time for no particular reason. Just bored.
took forever tho.

All this talk of Brew 102 is giving me a headache... ;)



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That look good...

Must be recent pictures. California is sure green this spring

Morro Bay just outside of San Luis Obispo....caught a fish on the dock there in 1960. We were on our way to San Simenon and the Hearst Castle...we toured the place about a year after it was opened to the public by the state of CA.

The same with Disney Land visited it in 57.

I've been in California off and on since the '60s and I've never heard of 'Brew 102' :confused:.
Is it because I'm a Californian, that I don't recognize these lesser beer brands?

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I never tasted Brew 102...it is a cheap beer that some get headaches from.

I just remember going by the Brewery with the sign painted on the wall as you drove on the San Berdo freeway into LA...landmark is what I think you call it?

I am gona have to take a picture of a WC that I just got that was painted maybe as late as the 60's of the old buildings (1880's) at the base of Bunker Hill in downtown LA...before they all were torn down.

The Central Coast is really beautiful..nice and temperate climate..really perfect place to live. Only drawback is the level of amenities..San Luis would be good because of the State University near by.

If I had unlimited dinero I would live in Montecito, CA.

Oprah, Richard Widmark, Al Gore and Robert Mitchem all are or were residents. Those old 20's and 30's Italianate Villas that sit on top of hills with 180* views of the Pacific....are something to behold.

I'm born and raised here in SoCal and I still kinda like the place. I have seen a lot of change in 61 years and the politics in Sac are downright loony, but if you stay out of it, and if you can work around the pitfalls and avoid the traffic and crowds, I think it's hard to beat.

Pluses- Epic weather, beaches, mountains, deserts, pace of life, vibrant car culture, good food and wine grown locally, relatively low crime.

Minuses- Schools and roads are a mess, traffic & crowds, high taxes, violent leftist thugs, cost of living.

A lot of CA Plein Aire painters worked in that area in the last decades of the 19th and first decades of the 20Th century. Percy Grey, Grandville Redmond, Guy Rose (the Monterey Coast)...and Marius Schmidt...among others. Schmidt is the only one that is still affordable...you can buy a house for what some of the other artists paintings go for.

They really take you back to another time and place. To an idyllic CA.