Photo Exhibit Captures The Sunset Strip's Golden Age Of Billboards

"TotallyThatStupid" (jbbush) 04/10/2015 at 16:45 • Filed to: CAR SPOTTING, BILLBOARDS, TRAFFIC JAMS

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Hemmings Motor News' daily blog has a cool feature - !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! - wherein they show an older or old photo with a bunch of vehicles in it. They'll tell you a little bit about the photo or photos if they know something, and then ask, "What do you see?" Pretty cool, and some amazing photos have been featured from all time periods going way the hell back.

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From a separate news feed, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Ostensibly, it's about a book on the sometimes batshit crazy old music billboards around Los Angeles, specifically the Sunset Strip. However, these photos in the LA Weekly article covering the book are also a minor trove of older car p0rn.

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Good stuff. And, as Hemmings asks, what do you see? As a side note, if you're into music of almost any genre, LA Weekly is great. They're on Facebook (of course) and you can sign up for email feeds as well.

RallyWrench > TotallyThatStupid 04/10/2015 at 17:16

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Holy shit... an Iso Rivolta, Maserati 3500GT, MBZ Ponton, and an MGB-GT in one picture?

I can 't even

ly2v8-Brian > TotallyThatStupid 04/10/2015 at 17:17

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The Nordeast neighborhood of Minneapolis has this vintage billboard. It has neon, but that needs to be restored. Here's what it should look like.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > RallyWrench 04/10/2015 at 20:07

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Must be a mechanic shop parking lot.

TotallyThatStupid > ly2v8-Brian 04/11/2015 at 09:23

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Yep, I can almost see it from my company's roof deck. And I thought I read somewhere they were going to restore it?

EDIT: http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_2…

ly2v8-Brian > TotallyThatStupid 04/11/2015 at 09:47

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yeah I've heard about that too. I'm sure they'll get it done, it's just neon lighting is insanely expensive. They may do LED would be my guess.

Enjoy what's shaping up to be an awesome weekend.