Comments on: Freeway Poser, Los Angeles, 1959

By: Ezio

Ezio — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:21:04 +0000

My friend Charles. Your website and your pictures are the most important for me nowadays. Oh my God! I love watching every day these marvelous and unforgetable pictures. Congratulations again! Great snapshot really! Ezio, from São Paulo(Brazil)

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:36:07 +0000

I agree with P.G. The world then was much safer, By economic and military standerds we were on top of the world , the carefree innocence of this great nation shows in this piture of both car and lady. as Simon and Garfunkle sang . Time was it was a time of innocence , it was a time of confindances. great snapshot.

By: pg

pg — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:59:56 +0000

It seems surreal.Everything about this picture is beautiful:
the sexy lady, the car, the green
shrubs and the sunny weather! It’s all in a different world than today’s hurried life. After all, who would take the time to do this nowadays? You’ll either be shot or runned down by a druken driver! This picture is pure innocense that America has lost forever.

By: Joesixtooth

Joesixtooth — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:25:35 +0000

This really brings me back to the days in L.A. when the freeways were fairly new, clean, graffiti-free and lined with ivy. Someone mentioned that ther is no center divider, back in those days the freeway used to have a chain-link fence with a cable running down the center.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:49:27 +0000

Hey, your webmaster is tops! problem solved …
and oo la la

By: Tim Severs

Tim Severs — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:52:00 +0000

Hi Charles,

The car looks similar to the one Joe Friday drove in the old Dragnet episodes.
Tim Severs

By: DavidinBerkeley

DavidinBerkeley — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:13:57 +0000

“Yes, the car is low and wide but she is tall by any feminine standards.”

Charles Phoenix is nothing if not a gentleman.

By: Trish

Trish — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:09:39 +0000

Our car had a flat in that area at one time. We changed it AFAP(!) (as fast a possible), too dangerous to hang out for long. I still have steel belt punctures in my fingers.

R.I.P Jerry.

By: Jim D

Jim D — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:29:05 +0000

I don’t see a wedding band on the ladies ring finger so, let me assume that the car belongs to her Dad or Mom and one of them is behind the camera. (Afterall, why would a lady of this magnitude buy a station wagon?) Maybe her boy-friend bought it for camping trips? Hmmmmmmmm..

I only know when I bought my first car I wanted to take pictures of it with a nice background. I drove to the Inglewood Park Cemetery where there were dozens of grassy and tree lined parkways for some “quiet shots” and that turned out so well I have taken other cars there as well for “photo opps.” The cemetery is a much prettier and safer place to take car pictures than nearly any freeway shoulder.

One other comment on the ‘lady on the shoulder’ just maybe she and the photographer were leaving L.A. never to return but wanted a ‘memory shot.’

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:45:54 +0000

CHARLES – SUCH A COINDICENCE! I just got a new car a few days ago and the first thing I did after leaving the showroom was to head down the Hollywood Freeway, find the narrowest section of the shoulder, pull over and jump out to take photos. There are some great shots of me, but my goodness, at such a cost… so many horns and fingers! My friend said it was because I was partially blocking the lane – but I think they were all just jealous because they weren’t part of the glamour.