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Kamis, 30 Maret 2017

Bozzani Motors, from motorized bike sales and service, and assemblers of knocked down vehicles that were shipped to the west coast in crates on the railroads, to owners of car dealerships

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5206240&postcount=3300

Bozzani Motors started around 105 years ago with humble beginnings.

The Bozzani brothers came from Italy, and opened up a motorized bike shop in downtown LA in 1911.

Brothers Amerigo, Joe, and Carlo Bozzani then opened a showroom selling Overland and Willys-Knight automobiles on North Broadway in the heart of Little Italy. The dealership sold 2,200 automobiles in 1928 alone.

Brother Amerigo Bozzani would later become a California Highway Commissioner who oversaw the construction of the state’s first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.

Since then they have had various franchises until around WWII.

Bob Bozzani then opened up shop in Monrovia with VW in 1957. In 1995, his son Greg operates that VW dealership in Covina

http://www.bozzanivw.com/Welcome
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/16/60540/italian-americans-unearthing-lost-history-of-la-s/

Los Angeles' Little Italy developed in the 19th century when Italians began migrating to California in significant numbers. Their community centered around the northern side of downtown, right about where Olvera Street meets Chinatown today.

“It was all Italians in the area," said Bob Bozzani, 86, who still lives in Pasadena. “They had an Italian bakery shop for pastries, and they’d have an Italian place that made sausages. There was a meat shop, a produce shop. There were about four Italian bakeries in that area.”

For Bozzani's immigrant parents, Little Italy was the old neighborhood. His mom, who arrived in the U.S. in 1903, grew up there. His father and uncle arrived in 1909 and started their first business, a bike shop, in Little Italy.

The war was a major reason why L.A.’s Little Italy ceased to be, Gatto said. Some Italian immigrants were displaced or interned in relocation camps by the U.S. Others felt the sting of discrimination because of their roots in a country that opposed the Allied forces.

http://italianhall.org/our-collection/

https://www.pinterest.com/bozzanivolkswag/about-bozzani-vw/

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5221179&postcount=3436

Maret 30, 2017 Posted by Unknown in brass era, Italian, Los Angeles, Overland, studebaker

the Rickenbacker of 1924 demonstrating how good those brakes were!

in 1924, the Rickenbacker car dealer in Los Angeles, demonstrated the brakes on a new 1924 Rickenbacker C6 Touring sedan by driving the car down the 2nd street steps leading from Hope street to 3rd street at the west portal of the 3rd street tunnel

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5192953&postcount=3134

Maret 28, 2017 Posted by Unknown in Eddie Rickenbacker, Los Angeles

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5188787&postcount=3086

Maret 28, 2017 Posted by Unknown in Dealership, Los Angeles, Mercedes Benz

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5179419&postcount=2974

Maret 28, 2017 Posted by Unknown in horse wagon, Los Angeles, street cars

AAA headquarters at Eighth and Olive Streets, August 6th, 1911

so... what's the three wheeler? Mario mis-identified it... it's not an American Tri-Car, Steve nailed it, it's a Motorette, made by the C.W. Kelsey Mfg. Co. in Hartford, Connecticut 1910-12.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll59/id/494/rec/241

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll59/id/1348/rec/324

Thanks Mario and Steve!

http://www.american-automobiles.com/Motorette.html

In early 1911 a Motorette driven by Ward C. Sharwood, with Otto Krause as passenger, began a 4,416 mile journey from Hartford, Connecticut to San Francisco - the smallest engine driven vehicle to attempt the transcontinental trip. By late July they had made it as far as Ludlow, California, where they were arrested and held for two days for driving on the railroad right-of-way.

They reached San Francisco on August 14th, after taking 5 months - in which they had 41 days of actual running time.

They arrived in LA on August 5th, and this above images were taken August 6th

Maret 27, 2017 Posted by Unknown in 3 wheeler, AAA, Endurance racing, Los Angeles, three wheeler, what is it

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll59/id/559/rec/75

Maret 27, 2017 Posted by Unknown in Los Angeles

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/Automobile%20Club%20of%20Southern%20California%20collection,%201892-1963/mode/all/page/3

Maret 27, 2017 Posted by Unknown in Los Angeles, towtruck

a very cool looking Goodyear gas and tire station, looking south on Los Angeles Street (now Anaheim Blvd.) from Cypress Street after the 1938 flood

I don't think I've ever seen a close up of a Goodyear gas station, http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8199q44r/?brand=oac4

visible stores and businesses include he Goodyear Service Station, Cone Bros. Chevrolet Sales and Service, Van Buren Furniture, Riutcel-Smith Furniture Company, F.P. Robins Signs and the Pickwick Hotel.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5101077&postcount=2284

Maret 26, 2017 Posted by Unknown in Goodyear, historical, Los Angeles