Westside Historic

Echoes of a simpler time. Santa Monica, Venice, and surrounding areas before gentrification.

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Images from the book Dogtown - the Legend of the Z-Boys by Glen E. Friedman and C.R. Stecyk lll.

Top photo - Z-Boy Nathan Pratt. Bottom Photo - Craig Stecyk lll

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Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica in the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. My dad worked here in 1958 before he was drafted, and I’m still jeaous.

Copyright: Frank J. Thomas Archives

Source: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/manitobamuseum/2910108335/

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Paradise Cove in Malibu, late ‘60s. 

That pier was greatly shortened by the 1983 El Nino storm, which also destroyed the Santa Monica pier and several others.

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Texaco Service Station on Lincoln Blvd in Santa Monica.

“Whip Inflation Now” was a term coined by President Gerald Ford in late 1974, so that’s presumably what inspired that sign.

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Fifty years later, and inflation needs it's ass whipped again.

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Venice Chucas. I’m guessing late ‘70s/early ‘80s. 

Source: http://www.cvltnation.com

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Stacy Peralta on the banks of Kenter Canyon, 1976.

Photo: Glen E. Friendman

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A&W Root Beer/Chubby Chicken coffee shop at the corner of Wilshire Blvd and 9th in Santa Monica in 1979, looking east. H. Salt Fish & Chips next door.

Source: lapl.org

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A&W's corporate headquarters was in Santa Monica for a while in the late '60s/early '70s.

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Malibu, 1960

Source: http://carcirca.com/the-malibu

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The Cove at Pacific Ocean Park, DogTown, in 1975, not long before the pier was demolished.

Source: lapl.org

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The Beach Auto Hotel at 1670 Ocean Ave in Santa Monica in the 1950s.

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Source: ebay.com

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Jack in the Box on Lincoln Blvd in Santa Monica in 1979. The giant clown heads used to spin around.

Photograph: John Margolies

Source: https://www.loc.gov/

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Hotel Miramar in Santa Monica, CA, 1958.

Photo courtesy of the SM Public Library: smpl.org

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Original Z-Boy Wentzle Ruml at St. Clements Church in Santa Monica circa 1975. Jay Adams captioned the pic.

From the book Jay Boy. Photo credit: Kent Sherwood

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Surfing in Santa Monica in 1975.

Source: smpl.org

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View of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu from the Santa Monica Mountains in 1975.

Photo: Charles O'Rear

Source: http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com

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Blue Cheer Surfboards, founded by Jay Stone in Santa Monica in 1969.

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Joshua Mark - You know you grew up on the Westside of L.A. if...........

Lincoln Blvd, 1973 (a contender for “The Ugliest Street in the World”). This view is taken from about Lincoln and Ozone in Santa Monica, looking South into Venice. The Safeway was at Lincoln and Rose. Note the giant ‘Tire Man’. The chicken shack in the foreground became a donut shop, and a friend and I worked there for a short while in the middle seventies, just after high school.

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Fan-freaking-tastic! I've never seen this pic before!

Ozone Street is the cut-off between Santa Monica and Venice, and I've included another pic of the "muffler man" at Lincoln Discount Tires, which is still there the last time I checked.