Senior Computer Tutor
Don Edrington
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Famous Department Store Downtown Los Angeles
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Some of the Sights I Remember Seeing When Living in Los Angeles and Hollywood during the 1940s & 1950s
Los Angeles Main Public Library Downtown Los Angeles
Pacific Electric Red Car Passing by Echo Park Pantages Theater, Hollywood Blvd.
Wallich's Music City and NBC Radio Studios Red Car with Hollywood Hills in the Background
I moved with my mom and 2nd step-dad (Bryson Perry Hall) to Los Angeles in 1942. My step-dad got a job as a buyer at the Broadway Department Store in Downtown LA and we lived in a duplex on a hill overlooking Echo Park and Aimee Semple McPhersons' Angelus Temple.
Sadly, however, they split up and Bryson went into the army. Mom and I moved to a very small apartment on the edge of Hollywood near the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and Vermont Ave. I remember going to Virgil Junior High School, but transferring to Le Conte Junior High after discovering what a tough institution Virgil was. Subsequently I went to Hollywood High School briefly, before dropping out to conquer the world.
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Los Angeles Theater
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