I'm so old I Remember when:

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I think it was the California Museum of Science and Industry which was renovated into the current California Science Center.

There was no internet back then and these kinds of places held much awe and mystery and fascination for school kids (and everyone else). We had a lot of school trips there, and the La Brea Tar Pits, Cabrillo Marine Museum, Griffith Park Observatory, Olvera Street, Leo Carrillo State Park tide pools, our incredible mountains and beaches... so many magical places for curious young minds to explore. Southern California was a wonderful place to grow up in the 60s/70s/80s.

Sounds about right. My uncle went there and he wrote about it in his book.

We went to the tar pits and Griffith ages ago. I would love to do those again now that I'm older.

Cabrillo was quite nice. We went there lots.

Olvera street is quite nice. I don't know if I've got too many photos from last time (June 2023).

I still love going to museums and stuff. Especially the ones in pretty buildings.

 

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I recall when the young kiddos on the early interwebs would take pictures of their devil's lettuce plants, edit the Exif tags to have the local sheriff's latitude and longitude, and then drive over to his place, connect to his open wifi network and post the pictures using his IP address.

Good times, good times. Such a misspent youth.

*Some or all of the above may have been fabricated for the sake of humor.*

That's hilarious regardless of how real that is. I'm sure someone did that.

 

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More Natural History Museum photos.
Window in ceiling:

Stuffed animals. Not for cuddling in bed.

Rooster:

 

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Califonia June 2023 photos.
St. Peter and Paul's in Wilmington. I really like the lighting and stained glass window effects.

San Fernando in San Fernando:

Water fountain outside:

Pathway with rocks. I used to dream of having the entire garden to myself at one point.

Freeway.

We spent a good chunk of that trip visiting people, so we didn't go a lot of places.

 

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June 2022 trip. All taken by me unless otherwise stated.
Food in Olvera Street. I didn't take many photos there as I had been there a lot in the years before:

Views from Griffith:

Aquarium of the Pacific. Not sure if any of you went there. They added stuff on but it wasn't very interesting, the old part is still there though. Don't have photos of anything but the fish:

 

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I love photos. Especially old ones/photos of old things.

 

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Saw this in Santa Barbara, March 2024

We got clam chowder and ate it on the dock while being spied on.

 

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Some of my photos seem to have come out better than I thought they did, and some seem to have come out worse.

 

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I'm so old I remember using the outhouse

My great grandmother still had the outhouse and chamber pots in the sixties and I remember using them when we stayed at her house

You also had to pump the water

 

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I remember the day that cokes went to 6¢ a bottle in the red Coca Cola vending boxes.

I had forgot all about those
I don’t remember how much they were
had to pay a deposit on the glass bottle if you didn’t bring one to swap out
And it was kinda like a puzzle to get one out

And I remember the 6pack glass quart (?) bottles