Last post involved people I couldn’t identify, so, here I am doing that again. This time we’ve got a couple Kodachrome slides from August 1968, of a young couple outside the Courthouse (as seen on p. 17 of Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill) with a novelty sign:
Naturally, my impulse was to go and shoot the same spot today:
(What can I say, I like then-n-now photography.)
I was moved to post the images of this couple, in part, due to how much they remind me of my aunt and uncle, Olivia & Andy.
A true Pasadena Love Story: Alec Andrew Johnson (my mother’s brother) was shopping at Whistle Stop Trains on Colorado one day in 1966, and immediately fell in love with the gal behind the counter. They got hitched in May 1967 at Westminster Presbyterian on Lake. And yes, after 58 years, they’re still together!
So I like to think these unnamed two from our 1968 Hill Street slides are similarly blessed with long life and marriage. If you know who they are, let me know!
Oh, and as long as we’re on the subject of letting me know stuff…one of you certainly knows who designed these:
We all know the monumental terracotta Courthouse sculptures by Albert Stewart and Donal Hord but what about these guys?
Bunker Hill, Los Angeles 