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San Diego photologs from the 1970s
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#12Nice you could choose if you would like your gasoline with or without service :-) (4:00). Why was the chain called "Der Wienerschnitzel" and not "Das Wienerschnitzel". It is (was) a proper noun, but why the wrong article? (5:02) A small part appears twice (from 8:51--9:06). more cyclists than I see in current streetview footage Coca-Cola delivery vans where yellow?
Nice you could choose if you would like your gasoline with or without service
Still possible in some places. Especially cities with large numbers of retirees.
I used a full-service optional Shell station in Las Vegas last year. Unlike when I was young, full-service didn't mean in increase in the price of gas.
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#13Les Girls is still there. I chuckle every time I pass it on the way to the rehearsal space my band uses. I always suspected that it had been a bigger deal in some bygone era; glad to see that confirmed via photographic evidence.
I keep hearing that whole area is gonna be razed as part of the Midway/Sports Arena redevelopment, but I feel like as long as MCRD stays put, Les Girls will always have a home. LOL
The most recent draft of the Midway Rising Specific Plan (https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/2025-09/dsd_app...) says Les Girls stays; the development doesn't go north of Kurtz St.
By my reading of the map, it means that that Midway Rising will cover the Salvation Army store and everything west of it between Sports Arena and Kurtz St (including the current parking lots).
Of course, if/when Midway Rising does happen, it'll probably spark future developments..
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#14Your color correction is incredible - the frames you selected look much better than the original video. The matrix of vehicles is my favorite part. If you drive down these same streets today it's a sea of black, white and grey. You'll be happy to know that Les Girls is still there today, advertising burlesque, go go dancers and "full nude". They finally replaced the sign earlier this year, but it still looks very muc…
Everything looks so green, but I'm not sure if it's the color correction or because there was water back then. :shrug:
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#15IMHO comparably, cars today look depressing. So soulless, so similar, so boring. White/grey/silver/black, maybe a few boring blue or burgundy.
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#16I drove down Garnet and Grand so many times as a teenager on the way to the beach. Beings back a few memories. Most of that was thirty years ago, and the videos are from way earlier. But it's kind of interesting that some of it seems familiar.
I actually don't really think cities should be like that though. They should evolve more freely. No point in trying to explain it though.
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#17So many Volkswagen Beetles! The original ones, not the 1990s version.
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#18Nice you could choose if you would like your gasoline with or without service :-) (4:00). Why was the chain called "Der Wienerschnitzel" and not "Das Wienerschnitzel". It is (was) a proper noun, but why the wrong article? (5:02) A small part appears twice (from 8:51--9:06). more cyclists than I see in current streetview footage Coca-Cola delivery vans where yellow?
Nice you could choose if you would like your gasoline with or without service Still possible in some places. Especially cities with large numbers of retirees. I used a full-service optional Shell station in Las Vegas last year. Unlike when I was young, full-service didn't mean in increase in the price of gas.
There are a few full-service stations around where I live. But you really don't need your oil checked when you get gas so unless the objective is to have someone else pump your gas in crappy weather there's not a not of point.
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#19Can't forget California smog and haze that varied between yellow, orange, and brown.
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#20Can't forget California smog and haze that varied between yellow, orange, and brown.
And we just can't capture the smell of those vehicles or the smell of gas stations of that time.