This Oldsmobile got 30 mpg and hit 30 mph in a 4,600-mile cross-country jaunt. But in 1938, this was a 34-year-old car, the same age as a 1974 Oldsmobile today.
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 uperior Court Judge Fletcher Bowron accepts the nomination bid to run against Mayor Frank Shaw in the upcoming recall election. Assemblyman Sam Yorty withdraws, ending a "draft Yorty" campaign, The Times says, calling him "the candidate of the left-wing labor element" of the Federation for Civic Betterment.
In Korea, Soviet artillery pounds the Japanese front ... On the jump, a caravan leaves for Amarillo, Texas, to dedicate the Will Rogers Memorial Highway.
In sports, the Hollywood Stars beat the L.A. Angels, 6-5, in the opener of the "Civil War" series.
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Babe Brandelli owned that bar on Washington Blvd (now Abbot Kinney) in Venice for years. How about some more on him.
Posted by: marc pollard | August 10, 2008 at 08:42 PM