Throwback Thursday

[Wheeler]

View attachment 664010 Cool display case - my brother made mine out of an old patio table that I was about to throw out.

Your brother did a mighty fine job.

 

[Wheeler]

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Street Fair Orange circa 1910.

Balboa Island Ferry

 

[DrunkenSailor]

From the OC Sheriffs museum website which is a bit of a rabbit hole: http://www.ocsheriffmuseum.com/

Of Blind Pigs and Rumrunners

The photographs above show rubber-booted Orange County lawmen pouring seized booze down the driveway drain at the Fruit Street garage, near the old jail in Santa Ana, probably 1931 at the height of Prohibition. Note the many barrels and glass jugs in the photo at left. The man at left holds a sledgehammer for breaking barrelheads, and in the far right background are three women prohibitionists invited to witness the spectacle (and to ensure that none of the liquor went astray!). In the photo at right, Sam Jernigan (sheriff 1923-1931) is probably standing at center, and longtime Santa Ana Constable Jesse Elliott (sheriff 1939-1947) might be the person standing at right. Two of the others are identified as a Joe Ryan and Undersheriff Ed McClellan.

Above, two views of Prohibition, Orange County-style. In the photo at left, Sheriff Sam Jernigan (possibly at right) and “a deputy” show the photographer a cache of bottled illegal bottled liquor. The photo at right shows a truck filled with barrels and liquor-making paraphernalia backed up to the front door of the Old Sycamore Jail and sheriff’s office.

The Oakwood was a rum-runner boat that ran aground in Newport Harbor, 1932. The 42-mile, jaggedy, Orange County coastline, often obscured from the nearby bluffs, for many years was a haven for booze-smuggling small craft—much in the manner of drug-smugglers of a later era.

It wasn't even Prohibition yet, and yet Orange County already had alcohol problems. A decade before the Eighteenth Amendment curtailed the liquor trade in 1920, back-room operations in OC were selling liquor to potential troublemakers. The Sheriff’s Department had scant manpower to address such matters, so District Attorney L.A. West enlisted civilians as undercover agents. A “blind pig” was a surreptitious liquor outlet, hidden or masquerading as something else. “Gimpy” Williams sold beer like cordwood, for instance, out of a hidden compartment in his woodshed near El Toro, so the district attorney dressed respectable citizens in tatters to catch him at it, and off went Gimpy to jail. Seal Beach was renowned for its proliferation of amber-colored liquids. A small café in the center of Brea served something in coffee cups that wasn’t coffee. The proprietor pleaded guilty. A notorious “blind pigger” named Kate near Santa Ana was a slow learner, no sooner getting out of jail before she was back pushing the hootch again. So the district attorney sent Deputy Sheriff George Law and three others to surround Kate’s place. They knocked on the door, asking for beer, and Kate came out shooting her revolver and shouting “I’ll give you your darn beer!” Kate’s next stay in jail was more lengthy, and when she got out this time, she never was heard from again. In 1913, City of Orange Constable (and later county sheriff) Logan Jackson suspected that a barber shop/pool room was selling alcohol-spiked cider and grape juice out of soda bottles, and dispatched his undercover civilians to get a haircut and observe what else was going on. The barber and owner were arrested on liquor charges and for allowing a minor to play pool. They were escorted to the county line.

With the enactment of Prohibition, big-time liquor smuggling during the 1920s replaced small-time entrepreneurs. Orange County’s zig-zaggy 42-mile coastline became a convenient rendezvous for “rum-runners” who off-loaded English and Canadian liquor in the county’s numerous hidden coves, sometimes for national distribution. Blinker lights were used by on-shore accomplices to signal the boats when the coast was clear. Crescent Bay in Laguna Beach and Newport Beach sometimes looked like pirate landings of yore, but the sheriff and his men were present to meet the landing parties, and many cases of illicit liquor were confiscated and stored in the basement of the old stone courthouse in Santa Ana. After the bootleggers’ trials, the bottles were emptied down the outside drain next to the old jail while ladies of the Womens Christian Temperance Union sternly watched to make sure a quart here or a quart there did not go astray. Prohibition was repealed in 1933, and Orange County’s quiet oceanfronts returned to normal—aside from a more-than-occasional offshore gambling boat anchored out there.

 

[Rajobigguy]

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The Rodium still exists, sort of. It spent several years as the Paramount drive in then became the Paramount swap meet and now they have brought back the drive in theater (swap meet still runs during the daytime).

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Remember when all grand openings and big movie premiers put to use those leftover search lights from WWII

tonight the fam and I got home from a movie and I spotted a searchlight in the sky. We grabbed the dog and I threw everybody back in the car and we went hunting for it. Took about 20 minutes but we tracked it down. I got to tell my kids stories of doing the same thing with my grandpa on the way. We found them at mission Viejo high school. They were having a carnival or a dance or something. Pretty cool deal for me and my wife gave me the I'm humoring you but your a good dad look. Which means if I play my cards right I may get laid tonight lol.

thanks again for posting this picture and reminding me of this.

 

[4Waters]

Resurrection time.

Anyone drive a 3 on the tree? It apparently is a hard concept to grasp, it was really confusing for me with it on the column, it took me like 5 seconds to learn. BTW I'm 42 I drove it in high school 65 F250 428 3 on the tree with a Borg Warner overdrive.

How did my parents generation survive?

 

[dribble]

 

[Ziggy]

Drove a 4

Resurrection time.

Anyone drive a 3 on the tree? It apparently is a hard concept to grasp, it was really confusing for me with it on the column, it took me like 5 seconds to learn. BTW I'm 42 I drove it in high school 65 F250 428 3 on the tree with a Borg Warner overdrive.

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How did my parents generation survive?

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I drove 4 on the tree.

 

[Mr. C]

maybe a couple of you have had one. wanna say mid 70's

 

[4Waters]

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I'll show you cave man.

Can anyone of you drive a Ford Model T? Here are the pedals.
C: Clutch (low and high gear) you hold it in the middle for neutral, push it to the floor for low and release for high.
R: Reverse (forward/reverse) push the pedal to the floor for reverse and release for forward. While holding on the floor for reverse push "C" pedal to the floor to engage the gear.
B: Brake works like a normal brake.

While you are working with all those pedals you have to throttle up and down with the hand throttle with the RT hand and adjust the spark with the LT hand up on the steering column.

Yes I can drive one. They also have a 2 speed rear end.

 

[HotRod82]

Being 50 now, I feel like I got just a glimpse, the last gasp if you will of how awesome socal really was. There really was nothing like it in the world and sadly never will be again. The laid back culture combined with open space, beaches, boats, hotrods, motorcycles, and of course the free spirited girls, really was something.......IMO, if you weren't there you just wouldn't understand.

 

[Taboma]

Resurrection time.

Anyone drive a 3 on the tree? It apparently is a hard concept to grasp, it was really confusing for me with it on the column, it took me like 5 seconds to learn. BTW I'm 42 I drove it in high school 65 F250 428 3 on the tree with a Borg Warner overdrive.

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How did my parents generation survive?

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Had driver's ed in HS in 1964. Had two training cars, one with an auto, the other a 51' Chevy with 3 on the tree. So learning a stick was party of driver's ed. But, my uncle had a 49' Chevy he used to let me drive around the block when I was 14, so I was hip to shiftin and double clutching when needed. Driver's ed instructor proclaims due to lack of syncro you can't shift it into 1st unless it's stopped ---- "Wanna Bet" I chime up and promptly did and just about stood that sucker on it's nose, LOL Needless to say, instead of an Atta Boy, I got a real stern look a finger wag and "Don't do that again"
Thanks for the fun memory !!!

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Laguna Beach

Crystal Cove 1937

San Clemente

Balboa Fun Zone

Garden Grove

Fullerton

UCI

Boyscout Jamboree Irvine Rance

Huntington Beach

Alfred Chapman Orange Circle 1887

Helena Modjeska

Santa Ana Drags John Wayne Airport

Watsons old soda fountain

Orange Street Fair 1910

St Josephs Hospital Orange

 

[Chili Palmer]

Who saw their favorite country act at The Palomino before they really hit it big?

 

[monkeyswrench]

Just found this thread! It really makes me realize I was born to the wrong period though I love the Santa Ana Drags pics...see some cars I know. Seeing a guy wearing the Hart's Texaco jacket is really cool. Met CJ Hart a long, long time ago. Some really neat guys have been lost to the rush everyone is in now days.

I'll show you cave man.

Can anyone of you drive a Ford Model T? Here are the pedals.
C: Clutch (low and high gear) you hold it in the middle for neutral, push it to the floor for low and release for high.
R: Reverse (forward/reverse) push the pedal to the floor for reverse and release for forward. While holding on the floor for reverse push "C" pedal to the floor to engage the gear.
B: Brake works like a normal brake.

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While you are working with all those pedals you have to throttle up and down with the hand throttle with the RT hand and adjust the spark with the LT hand up on the steering column.

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Yes I can drive one. They also have a 2 speed rear end.

Three pedals with a Ruckstal two speed is pretty easy. The fun ones are the early 2 pedal I'm 41, but when I was in my 20's I loved learning anything the "oldtimers" would teach me. Even how to reline and adjust bands on T's... To date the earliest car I worked on was a 1903 Longdistance. Single cylinder, tiller steer...frightening as hell to drive That was about 2003...100 years old then! Neatest of the oldies was a 1906 Locomobile LeLonde Sedan. 400ci 4 cylinder...hand crank! Made damn good and sure to check your timing and throttle. The engine was overhead valve, dual cams parallel the crank. Exposed pushrods and valvetrain with drip/loss oiling...beautiful thing to watch it run

 

[4Waters]

Just found this thread! It really makes me realize I was born to the wrong period though I love the Santa Ana Drags pics...see some cars I know. Seeing a guy wearing the Hart's Texaco jacket is really cool. Met CJ Hart a long, long time ago. Some really neat guys have been lost to the rush everyone is in now days.

Three pedals with a Ruckstal two speed is pretty easy. The fun ones are the early 2 pedal I'm 41, but when I was in my 20's I loved learning anything the "oldtimers" would teach me. Even how to reline and adjust bands on T's... To date the earliest car I worked on was a 1903 Longdistance. Single cylinder, tiller steer...frightening as hell to drive That was about 2003...100 years old then! Neatest of the oldies was a 1906 Locomobile LeLonde Sedan. 400ci 4 cylinder...hand crank! Made damn good and sure to check your timing and throttle. The engine was overhead valve, dual cams parallel the crank. Exposed pushrods and valvetrain with drip/loss oiling...beautiful thing to watch it run

The oldest car I've worked on was the 1927 T roadster p/u that I learned to drive on, but I have worked on a bunch of model A's. I'm having trouble finding a pic of it but it looked like this all orginal unrestored with the Foster Farms Chickens riding in the bed.

 

[Chili Palmer]

Remember this guy? No, it’s not Terry from Ray Donavan. He’s in the world’s greatest documentary.

Hint: Look at the name on the gas tank.

 

[F.U.IRS]

Who saw their favorite country act at The Palomino before they really hit it big?

Dwight Yoakam in the early 80's.Not my favorite but a pretty good one

 

[Wheeler]

View attachment 721870 Remember this guy? No, it’s not Terry from Ray Donavan. He’s in the world’s greatest documentary.

Hint: Look at the name on the gas tank.

How about this guy?

 

[Chili Palmer]

Dwight Yoakam in the early 80's.Not my favorite but a pretty good one

We saw Johnny Lee, David Frizzel, Silvia, Gary Morris, George Strait, Earl Thomas Connery, John Anderson, and many, many more.

 

[Wheeler]

 

[Tank]

Our house. Early 1920’s

 

[TCHB]

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I had lunch at Mickeys hundreds of times.

 

[Chili Palmer]

How about this guy?

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Gene Romero?

 

[Wheeler]

Gene Romero?

Yes, Gene Romero. Gene came by the shop for an election night BBQ in 2012 to watch Romney loose.

Food was good though!

 

[boatnam2]

That was a great night!

 

[boatnam2]

Come on Wheeler, no pic of Dolphin liquor in seal beach?

 

[Wheeler]

Come on Wheeler, no pic of Dolphin liquor in seal beach?

Where's Seal Beach? I'm from the South Bay.
Is Seal Beach the place where all the Fags live? You might need to check with Lynch, I bet he's got some photos for you.

 

[F.U.IRS]

We saw Johnny Lee, David Frizzel, Silvia, Gary Morris, George Strait, Earl Thomas Connery, John Anderson, and many, many more.

John Anderson, one of my favorites

 

[92562]

That was a great night!

No kidding! I have the program in the attic somewhere...

 

[boatnam2]

Where's Seal Beach? I'm from the South Bay.
Is Seal Beach the place where all the Fags live? You might need to check with Lynch, I bet he's got some photos for you.

LOL, ok them mr b's avenue c.

 

[Wheeler]

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@500bbc

 

[Morehart]

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El Porto and El tarasco. Dang I haven't been there in a while. Last time I checked my sticker was still up after 20 years!!!

 

[Wheeler]

 

[500bbc]

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@500bbc

That's my neighbor on Morgan,

 

[Wheeler]

 

[Albert]

 

[Wheeler]

Tube Tops, and Halter tops. when did they go outta style?

 

[Mandelon]

 

[Chili Palmer]

Tube Tops, and Halter tops. when did they go outta

Tube Tops, and Halter tops. when did they go outta style?

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The girl on top looks like Alexis Digoria. Maybe her mother?

 

[FreeBird236]

Before my 23 year water district career, I spent 17 years there selling high end audio equipment for one of their concessionaires.

 

[Wheeler]

The girl on top looks like Alexis Digoria. Maybe her mother?

She shoulda put on her Dittos.

 

[fat rat]

Out of curiosity, what is the lowest you can fly over Havasu?

 

[Chili Palmer]

She shoulda put on her Dittos.

She’s got nice legs, but she should be wearing one of those fishing gaiters and sunglasses.

 

[westair]

That pic of Lily never gets old!!

 

[stephenkatsea]

Had driver's ed in HS in 1964. Had two training cars, one with an auto, the other a 51' Chevy with 3 on the tree. So learning a stick was party of driver's ed. But, my uncle had a 49' Chevy he used to let me drive around the block when I was 14, so I was hip to shiftin and double clutching when needed. Driver's ed instructor proclaims due to lack of syncro you can't shift it into 1st unless it's stopped ---- "Wanna Bet" I chime up and promptly did and just about stood that sucker on it's nose, LOL Needless to say, instead of an Atta Boy, I got a real stern look a finger wag and "Don't do that again"
Thanks for the fun memory !!!

Our Driver’s Ed cars at Downey High were specially rigged. Well, sort of. On the passenger side front seat, where the teacher sat, there was a brake pedal. No steering wheel or accelerator. Just a brake pedal. Guess they thought, if needed, just bringing the car to a stop would be good enough.

 

[Taboma]

Our Driver’s Ed cars at Downey High were specially rigged. Well, sort of. On the passenger side front seat, where the teacher sat, there was a brake pedal. No steering wheel or accelerator. Just a brake pedal. Guess they thought, if needed, just bringing the car to a stop would be good enough.

I've noticed out of the corner of my eye that my wife has an imaginary one at times in my truck. If it were real that would seriously suck

 

[4Waters]