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And a Bill Stroppe Bronco at that. His shop was still on Signal Hill when I was playing “catch me if you can” with oil field security guards in pickups. No match for my ‘58 Baja Bud. Clint played a great round of “catch me if you can” and won a great pair of prizes. Speaking of Broncos…Drives a Bronco
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BroncoJimbo
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When I first got my Bronco in 1990, we lived in an apartment right off PCH in Long Beach.
Our first apartment was on Stanton Pl. It looked out at the RR tracks, the back of Douglas Burger and a coin op car wash. It was’74.
I remember trolley tracks in the streets of downtown Long Beach, not the cars or overhead wires.
Now the Metro runs to downtown.
The street it was located on was just up the road from a hill every kid knew as place to race, uphill or downhill. Paved, part of the street but long and steep, not far from the bottom was a stop sign which was frequently ignored, car would bottom out at the bottom, main speed limiter, not the stop sign. A friend of mine was a pumper for ARCO, night shift, so we would go all over Signal Hill, sometimes requiring a key, often not. At the time Signal Hill, named after transmitting towers, was a fun place to go, like being out in the country. Had a great lover's lookout. Used to be a very well known Country Music place overlooking Long Beach, Hill Top Club sounds familiar, known for Conway Twitty, Bill Anderson visits.
“Airplane Drop” at Belflower and PCH or Shell Hill where they used to have the Model T races. My drivers ed instructor (print shop teacher) taught us how to power brake a Cutlass at the bottom of Shell Hill. BTW Signal hill was developed by Signal Oil way before the antenna farm existed.
I assumed it was because of the antennas. I vaguely remember knowing it was Signal Oil that developed it. The hill at the end of Bellflower Blvd we called airplane hill, I remember the Model T races. Ah yes, Shell Hill, it's all coming back. I have 8mm movie film of us goofing on Signal Hill that I recently digitized. Damn, it's strange to look at them, delightful but strange, like a time out of time and I was there. In those days I always had a camera, 35mm or 8mm movie camera... from the time I was in High School. I bought a device and digitized all of the 8mm, it takes a while as the device does a frame at a time but once loaded with a reel it runs unattended.
Remember THE PIKE. Went there as a kid all the time. Or LIONS drag strip
Oh yeah, and Ascot Park. JC Agajanian did his own radio spots and they were perfect in every way. Ascot Park was fun.
My Bronco in 1977. A very special spec., would love to have it today.
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Angel’s Flight was a duplicate of the Coney Island coaster. Scared the crap out of me every illicit visit until my allowance was gone. Don’t tell mom it was a 16 mile round trip on Stingrays. Some times we’d go to the Naval Shipyard. Seems like there was always an open “house’ from oilers to the New Jersey. It was great to be an 7th grader
Was that the coaster at the end of the pier that hung over the water? I remember going down the track a looking straight at the ocean for a second. Pretty scary ride for its day
First off I got the name wrong, it’s the Cyclone Racer. I don’t think there was a pier, but that may have been well before ‘68. Legend was many a drunk sailor stood up and got decapitated by a low beam.
I think Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica may have had a coaster over the water, but it was out of my range when we lived there. But the Boy’s Club had the best 1/24th scale slot car track around. I was a model builder anyway, so that was 5th&6th grade Nirvana. Speed Thrills.
I think you’re right. That was at the Santa Monica pier. I raced slot cars at a place in Culver City near the ice rink we used. Good times
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