More Scans

Below is a picture of Kaiser Hospital on Woodman Ave. taken from the roof of Jane Russell's apartment building "Taos West". The year was 1976.

Below is a picture taken from inside the Hi Lo Drugstore at Sepulveda Blvd and Sherman Way in Van Nuys. The picture looks out onto the parking lot on Sepulveda. The year is 1976

Recent Scans

The past week I have been scanning a variety of materials from my family archives. Some of the scans pertinent to this blog are below. They are from my Junior High School in 1969 except for the newspaper clip:

 I was in Van Nuys Demolay with Jim Jeffries in the picture above. Sadly he died in 2004. Phone Rat and I attended a memorial for him at Desconso Gardens.

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First Space Shuttle Mission

The following images are from a packet of shuttle pictures from Rockwell International. The first mission of Columbia was between April 12th and April 14th of 1981. Almost 31 years ago.

Tucker Craw

How many of you remember seeing Tucker in and around Van Nuys during the 60's and 70's? I pieced together the image below from a small newspaper article online. It was all I could find about him. Thanks to Phone Rat for reminding me of Tucker.

First Cars

It did well until I plowed into the back of a car on Sepulveda Blvd in Van Nuys when a woman decided to make an illegal turn right past an intersection. I bent the key with my knee and cut open my chin on the steering wheel. My Mom was two cars behind me when it happened and was more shook up than me.

It wasn't a dignified ending for a 1966 Pontiac Le Mans. My next car was a brand new 1973 Ford Pinto. Jokes aside I liked the car even though it was dreadfully slow.

RKO Encino Movie Ranch

Here is a link to a short article about behind the scene photos from "It's a Wonderful Life". Click on the photo link at the end of the article to go to the Life Magazine site.

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/12/valley_of_its_a_wonderful.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LAObserved+%28LA+Observed%29#.TwKR9p0jqXk.facebook

Hollywood Places

http://www.martinturnbull.com/?page_id=19

Valley Relics

While we are on hiatus please check out the website of Valley Relics:

http://www.valleyrelics.net/

Valley Relics also has a wonderful page on Facebook full of pictures and memories. Be prepared to spend hours looking through the collection.

Van Nuys Boomers on Hiatus

For the past five years I have been posting, albeit erratically, on Van Nuys Boomers. But for now I seem to have exhausted any really interesting items in our possession, which is clearly obvious in light of the last few posts. So for health and other reasons I am putting the blog on hiatus for the next few months. I do have a small back load of email to catch up on and I apologize for those and I will address them soon. Thank you to everyone for reading and contributing to our blog. Hopefully we will catch up again next year.

Fried Egg Noodles

I'm not branching out into a cooking blog but the other day I made something I haven't had in quite a while, and it is very easy, fried egg noodles. You start with leftover noodles like the ones in the picture above. Melt some butter or in my case margarine is an appropriate size skillet. Then pour the noodles into the skillet, mixing enough to get all the noodles coated with butter or margarine. I add salt and a good amount of pepper to mine.

Heat the noodles over a medium high heat until they begin to get slightly crunchy. Mix them again one more time and then spread them out so they cover the bottom of the pan and continue to fry over a medium high heat with stirring them anymore. You want the one side to get brown and crunchy. You can vary this according to how you like them.

The amount of butter/margarine varies because the amount of noodles is never the same. I never measure them but I would guess you can start with about 2 tablespoons. You can add more if needed but too much butter/margarine is not good. When the noodles are done they usually stick together and almost lift out of the pan like a big pancake, if you cook them to the way I like them. You may want them a bit softer.

I slide them onto my plate and add a bit more salt since my doctor tells me not to use so much salt. I like the flavor of the noodles frying in the  butter/margarine. You could add a bit of oil with them if you like. I never have for noodles so I can't say how they would come out.