Old City Buses

Here are some of the older buses. These had real deisel engines and real power...unlike today's methanol weaklings. You pulled the line chain and a "buzz" would occur. Also here's an L.A. yellow car and the old PE trolley early 1900s.

California native plants

Here are the Lord's Candle yucca, chamise, ceanothus, and elderberry. The yuccas seen in the city at 1000 feet and can be seen well up to 7000 feet above the sea. Chamise very well suited to the drought climate, storing water for years and years. They have a yellowed/white appearance in the spring and distinctive browning in the early fall/late summer. Whole mountain ridges can have this browning type color...these are the chamise. Ceanothus (lilacs) offer groves of blue flowers on mountain ridges...very beautiful in the springtime. Elderberry offers a distinctive blue berry locally and is edible. These are often bright green with yellow "bouquets" of flowers in the spring.

Local woodpecker

Here is a rough drawing of it. Often you will hear it knocking at telephone poles and trees trying to find grub. It has a distinctive gutteral chirp to it. Nuttals woodpecker down in this area...maybe 5 other types as well flying in and out of Los Angeles basin.

Euclid Belly Dumps and older power shovel

Fine earthmoving equipment

Here's the 1974 Euclid R50 and a much newer version (90s) of the same dump truck. These were made very durable and could go about 9000 hours at a time before major repairs. 50 stands for number of tons put in the truck. Euclid also made a bottom dump in 1965 with 63 or 70 ton capacity. Yours truly saw these still working as of the late 1990s. Probably a few still around having been rebuilt 5 times or so. They came in yellow, pea green, and a dark green. The engines were often Cummins or Detroit Deisel 12 cylinder. Some dump trucks had two engines to run the same vehicle. They had about 100 gallon gas tank capacity.

Also here's the Cat 980 wheel loader and Cat D-11 dozer. This wheel loader may have been one of the most durable and best ever made. Bucket capacity around 4-6 cubic yards.

Finally, here's a couple of crane power shovels. Bucyrus Erie was a famous name for many years.

Stones a Rollin

Homeless people are amazingly tough, conning, and industrious. Talk to one that's been living outside for a good 20 years and they'll tell you what the "System" is about from their vantage-point on the River Ganges. Many survival situations, dumpster diving behind Jack in the Box, sleeping on top of laundromats, panhandling at choice locations, hustling in other ways, pad crashing, sleeping in trees and bushes, scrapes with the police, food banks, living in cars, squatting in abandoned houses, finding good bridges to live in, ...the list is interesting and seems to go on forever. Nowadays, many homeless steal from the homeless...a possible litmus test of the "health" of today's globalist pluralist capitalist so called civilization.

WE GOTTA PROBLEM HERE