 | Trips on the Great White Steamer to Catalina and the St. Catherine
Hotel. |
 | The sound of the street cars on 3rd Street - the clanging bells and
the challenge of not getting your car tires stuck in the tracks. |
 | That great first date with your first love and dancing to the big band
at the Palladium. |
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Ringside at the Grove on
Christmas Eve
Bottom left to right: Jane and Manny Goldstein, Doris Schwartz, my
father (Ben Frank) Janet and David Schwartz, my mother (Bea) and Etta
Schwartz . Jane (Goldstein) and Etta Schwartz, my mother's sisters.
 | The Luau on Rodeo, Dave's Blue Room, Ciro's, Mocambo and the Troc |
 | The Victory Garden on the corner of Wilshire and June Street.

Frank & Felger: Ben & Bea Frank and Sadie and Louis
Felger in full
Henry VIII costume for a costume party my father put on at the Little
Club at the Hotel in 1934. The costumes came from 20th Century Fox -
the ones worn by Charles Laughton et al in the film. And dressers from
the studio came to our apartment to make them up and dress them.
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 | The 1938 flood - Sixth Street and June was under 12 feet of water.. |
 | Simons Drive In - on Wilshire at Sycamore. The place to be seen after a Saturday
night date. |
 | Service Stations that gave service: washed your windows, put air in the tires
and dusted your fenders, all for 15¢ a gallon. |
 | The Sultan and daddy, Will Rogers,
Jean Harlow, Thelma Todd. . .
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