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

Jane Russell at Taos West

Below is a picture of Jane Russell from January 1972 taken at her apartment complex "Taos West" on Woodman Ave. in Van Nuys California

Steak Burger Van Nuys CA

Does anyone remember a small place called Steak Burger that was at 6336 Woodman Ave. in Van Nuys? It was on the east side of the street just south of Victory Blvd. We used to go there back in the 70's. They had very large hamburgers on what I recall seemed like a specially made bun. We would cut classes at Valley College and go there or to Jack in the Box on the other side of Woodman. Then we would go play golf. This is probably why I spent too many years at Valley College and ended up with nothing but memories of cutting classes. The location of Steak Burger was about at the spot in the picture below

Thanks again to Google Street View