Monday, May 14, 2012
FORGOTTEN THINGS IN GLENDALE
LONG AGO....BROTHETON'S FARM HOUSE RESTAURANT...A HOME ON CENTRAL (I THINK) THAT WAS MADE INTO A RESTAURANT. THE CERAMIC OR PLASTER BIG WHITE DOG THAT SAT ON SIDEWALK OUTSIDE OF A MUSIC STORE ON BRAND. THE UNDERGROUND RESTROOM ON WEST SIDE OF BRAND...A RECTANGULAR OPENING IN SIDEWALK WITH STAIRS LEADING DOWN TO RESTROOM. KEN'S PET SHOP ON 700 BLOCK OF GLENDALE BLVD..NEAR FISH KING AND LONG'S MKT. HAMMILS MALT SHOP NEAR OLD ENGLISH CLEANERS AT CORNER OF MONTEREY RD AND GLENDALE. RICE'S HOBBY SHOP (JUST SOUTH OF OLD ENGLISH CLEANERS. THE GALEMORE APTS..A SIX STORY STRUCTURE ON WEST SIDE OF GLENDALE BLVD ACROSS FROM CHARLES MUSIC STORE WHICH WAS SOUTH OF OLD ENGLISH CLEANERS..THE FRONT DOOR HAD A LARGE GLASS IN IT AND THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL PAINTING IN LOBBY WHICH YOU COULD SEE THROUGH GLASS PANE IN DOOR. THE HEADLINER RESTAURANT AT MOUNTAIN AND GLENDALE....NEWSPAPERS WERE USED AS WALL PAPER...JUST OVER THE LINE INTO BURBANK ON SAN FERNANDO ROAD,,ANDREWS AND EVANS USED CARS...ACTUALLY, THEY WERE HOT RODS...NEAT STUFF. LAMEREAUX AND MILNE MOTORCYCLES (NO ONE YET SEEMS TO REMEMBER THEM.) BEHRENS HOSPITAL IN HILLS JUST NORTHEAST OF G.H.S. THE OLD YMCA IN GLENDALE WHERE I TOOK SWIMMING LESSONS..THE POOL STILL THERE (I THINK) BUT MUCH IMPROVED NEW POOL JUST NEXT DOOR. THE OLD POOL WAS SUB GROUND LEVEL AND HAD SMALL WINDOWS AT TOP WHICH OPENED TO AN ALLEY. ONE WINDOW WAS BROKEN OUT AND THE BOYS SWAM NUDE. I TOLD PATSY BAIRD ABOUT THAT, BUT DON'T KNOW IF SHE WENT TO SEE FOR HERSELF. HELLO, PATSY BAIRD OF 916 MONTEREY RD. WE LIVED THERE FROM 1950 TO 1951....I THINK THAT WAS A CAUSEY AND RHODES THING.....I WENT TO RICHARDSON D WHITE ELEM SCHOOL FOR SIXTH GRADE AND FRANCIS WEYLAND PARSONS WAS MY VERY EXCELLENT TEACHER. MISS BRINN WAS PRINCIPAL I WAS IN A PLAY THAT YEAR CALLED "AUNT DRUSILLA'S GARDEN...AND HAD ONE LINE...."I AM GOING TO BE A JOCKEY AND WIN HORSE RACES" (I NEVER DID !) GREAT DAYS, I WRODE MY NEW SCHWINN MY DAD BOUGHT FOR ME AT MATTHEW'S BIKE SHOP WHICH WAS SANDWICHED IN BETWEEN HAMMILS MALT SHOP AND CHARLE'S MUSIC. ONE DAY, TOM PULFER AND I WERE THROWING A BASEBALL BACK AND FORTH IN THE PKNG LOT AT 916 MONTERREY RD., AND I THREW A HARD BALL WHICH WAS TOO HIGH, AND I BROKE THE WINDSHIELD OUT OF A CAR THAT WAS PARKED BEHIND JACK'S AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY.....WHICH WAS JUST SOUTH OF A TWO STORY BIG BLDG AND I THINK IT WAS A DRAUGHN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AS I HEARD TYPEWRITERS CLACKING INSIDE.....NOW....REPEAT..WHAT DID I SAY ? B
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