Friday, February 26, 2010

Postcard

Los Angeles, (from the Otto Mannix Paper Archive).

6 comments:

Sq. Dave said...

Pretty cool picture. Dentist in neon is so odd. When is this from? I wish I had pictures of my neighborhood in ten year intervals starting from when I was a kid so I could see all the changes.

KinoRama said...

National Shirt Shops!

Otto Mannix said...

Squeaks: Yes that is strange, and worse is THREE neon dentist signs. What the f*ck? Interesting that you noticed that cos i had as well.

Kino: In the extensive OMR research, many images of NSS have come up. Evidently they were a National Concern! Good thing you have the door placard from the store we have on film!

KinoRama said...

Sadly we under documented Hays Rubber Stamp and Baumgartner

Ivan said...

If that's Broadway in Los Angle-eez, then me & Toestubs were wandering around there this summer. What's nice is how much of the architechture hasn't changed.

Otto Mannix said...

But on a downer note Ivan, we'd wager that the level of storefront design and signage has gone down the crapper, as has that of New York, much of whose architecture remains intact yet cheapened by the homogenization of the blandmentation of the awfulization of...

We'll check Gurgle Street Map for the compare/contrast!