LEFT: Pine Avenue looking north at Ocean Blvd. in the 1940s. The Security Bulding is in the center. A Pacific Electric Red Car is on Ocean Blvd.
RIGHT: Pine Avenue looking north at Ocean Blvd. on November 21, 2009. The Security Bulding in the center is partially obstructed by the Renaissance Hotel. This picture was taken from the second-floor fire escape in the Ocean Center Building.
THEN AND NOW: Pine Ave. and Ocean Blvd.
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This blog is a journal of Southern California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It's updated frequently with pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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I think my uncle, Harold Sloan, had a pawn shop at that intersection, at about that time
These trips down Memory Lane are absolutely fascinating. The Pacific Electric Red Car system was the technological marvel of its age, and we should rightly mourn its passing. There's a whole documentary on DVD called Los Angeles, The Early Days detailing the rise (and fall) of the Red Cars, and it's filled with then-and-now shots, and there's even a trailer you can download at LAtheEarlyDays.com -- it even has an old-time wax cylinder music score!