Oscars Restaurant

Who remembers Oscar's Restaurant at the corner of Sepulveda and Vose in Van Nuys. We used to eat there all the time. Seems like my Dad always ordered a Chili Size. Here is a picture of the restaurant which replaced Oscar's. I believe this is the place that had red hamburger buns. 

(Picture from The San Fernando Valley Relics page on Facebook)

Vintage Stereo System

One of my childhood memories was visiting a friend who had a console stereo system, which to a young kid sounded great. No this is not the actual stereo system or the friend, sigh. But I thought it was a great looking console stereo.

Cruising Van Nuys Blvd 1972

Below is a composite of images from 1972 of Van Nuys Blvd on a Wednesday night. Photos by Richard McCloskey.

Cruising Van Nuys Blvd

Just a quick reminder why we used to cruise Van Nuys Blvd.

Photo from the http://wildbunchcarclub.com/id21.html (Wild Bunch Car Club of Southern California)

GI Joe Footlocker

The box below with the label Stereo Equipment used to be my GI Joe Footlocker. Unfortunately I painted the box black and no longer have the innards but the box is still going strong and still holds my cords, plugs and electronic tools.

Crushes

A friend and I were talking about famous and not so famous girls/women we had crushes on over the years. My friend said I had unusual taste. He's right, I never got Pamela Anderson or any other number of famous women. So I put together a little picture of 4 women who at one time or another I had had a bit of a crush on and thought were pretty.

Three actresses and a news anchor. And no blondes. With three actresses who worked in Hollywood I can justify posting this in an L.A./SFV themed blog.

More Momentos

LP openers from Tower Records. Not much use for these anymore

Gone but not forgotten. The best bookstore in the SFV

A Muntz key chain

A Las Vegas souvenir from The Sahara Hotel

 A gift from Radio Rat

My Favorite Sign

This hangs on the outside of my home office door. After so many years of being interrupted at work I have reached the age where I can no longer tolerate being interrupted when I am working on a project. It has worked very well and my throat feels much better since I no longer have to growl (as much, I still do)

The Hollywood Tropicana

Who remembers finding these all over the valley years ago. I used to find them on my windshield

Book Markers from Local Bookstores