Cool Old Photos

[River Lynchmob]

Really cool to see how things used to be.

http://douglascountygensoc.org/photos002.html

 

[charlyox]

Those are some cool pics.:thumbup:

 

[Advantage 1]

The Prohibition Photo is sad... all that wasted alcohol.

 

[RodnJen]

Great photos, thank you.

 

[Undersoul02]

:thumbsup always enjoy looking at old photos like these.

 

[KevinR]

Many thanks.
A lot of really cool photos.
That one of the bison skulls is hard to believe.

 

[28skater]

OK 1921 sucked:thumbsdown

 

[milkmoney]

Hey lynch, a little of topic, but did u ever get that big ol beast into the gas dock, lol [emoji6] [emoji106] [emoji202]

 

[BoatCop]

Allow me to add to this.

The picture below is George Wolf, my wife's grandfather. He was an LAPD foot officer in Venice, CA in the 1920s, a beat that included the Venice "Plunge", a salt water pool along the beach. His partner was George Freeth, who had a similar role up the beach in Santa Monica. While "officially" they were police, they spent a majority of their time helping and rescuing people swimming in the Plunge and the ocean. They approached the Chief and City Council to form a beach patrol, separate from the Police, to assist beach goers. The council approved and they became the first lifeguards in LA County. Except for time spent in the Navy in WWII, George Wolf spent his life as a lifeguard from Santa Monica to Manhattan Beach. At one point, he patrolled by bicycle and rode from Santa Monica Pier to El Porto several times a day, as the only lifeguard on duty. There was no radio. Later there were police "call boxes" spaced along the boardwalk (later the strand) that he would open and pull the phone off the hook, to let HQ know there was an emergency. A practice that continued with tower phones through the 1990s.

He retired (as Captain) in the 1970s (his wife divorced him in the early 1950s), and shortly after became blind from the sun exposure. He lived for a while in the Santa Monica Lighthouse and later lived alone in a small trailer overlooking the beach in Pacific Palisades. Lifeguards from the Santa Monica Station checked him daily, helping him with shopping, reading mail, paying bills, etc. When he died in 1985 the County Lifeguards held the first Lifeguard Funeral/Paddle Out. This was later reenacted on the TV show "Baywatch" when one of the characters got caught in a underwater shipwreck and "drowned".

Below his photo is the plaque that is installed on the Venice Breakwater (site of the old Venice amusement pier). For several years, rookie lifeguards had to go out and shine the plaque, but the last time we were out there (2014) it looked like it hadn't been kept up very well.

 

[RiverDave]

Many thanks.
A lot of really cool photos.
That one of the bison skulls is hard to believe.

Yes that is pretty surreal what they did back then.

 

[RiverDave]

Allow me to add to this.

The picture below is George Wolf, my wife's grandfather. He was an LAPD foot officer in Venice, CA in the 1920s, a beat that included the Venice "Plunge", a salt water pool along the beach. His partner was George Freeth, who had a similar role up the beach in Santa Monica. While "officially" they were police, they spent a majority of their time helping and rescuing people swimming in the Plunge and the ocean. They approached the Chief and City Council to form a beach patrol, separate from the Police, to assist beach goers. The council approved and they became the first lifeguards in LA County. Except for time spent in the Navy in WWII, George Wolf spent his life as a lifeguard from Santa Monica to Manhattan Beach. At one point, he patrolled by bicycle and rode from Santa Monica Pier to El Porto several times a day, as the only lifeguard on duty. There was no radio. Later there were police "call boxes" spaced along the boardwalk (later the strand) that he would open and pull the phone off the hook, to let HQ know there was an emergency. A practice that continued with tower phones through the 1990s.

He retired (as Captain) in the 1970s (his wife divorced him in the early 1950s), and shortly after became blind from the sun exposure. He lived for a while in the Santa Monica Lighthouse and later lived alone in a small trailer overlooking the beach in Pacific Palisades. Lifeguards from the Santa Monica Station checked him daily, helping him with shopping, reading mail, paying bills, etc. When he died in 1985 the County Lifeguards held the first Lifeguard Funeral/Paddle Out. This was later reenacted on the TV show "Baywatch" when one of the characters got caught in a underwater shipwreck and "drowned".

Below his photo is the plaque that is installed on the Venice Breakwater (site of the old Venice amusement pier). For several years, rookie lifeguards had to go out and shine the plaque, but the last time we were out there (2014) it looked like it hadn't been kept up very well.

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That's a really cool story BC! Thx for sharing!