Author: leh

Long Beach June 1972: Rolling Stones Concert

Found this bunch of miscellany on the run-up afternoon and evening of the Stones concert in Long Beach. Scalpers, police, hookers, Krishna people, photographers, fans …

(For a time I lived in the rather upscale Belmont Shore district of Long Beach, but spent most of my (photographic) time in the far more interesting Long Beach area known as The Pike, where tattoo parlors, sailors, prostitutes and all forms of grittiness prevailed. More to follow if I find some of those photographs.)

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Climate change catastrophe.  It snowed.  But Charlie-Bob (Marley) loved his morning walk today. 

California-Nevada Desert (Circa 1972-73)

On one Death Valley trip, we traveling photographers stopped in the tiny town of Beatty, Nevada after having checked out nearby ghost towns, including Rhyolite.  In Beatty, we came upon a wedding in a bar (of which I so far can find only one or two photos, although I know we shot there for a couple of hours or more), then met and followed “Death Valley Annie” in her ’59 Ford to her combined desert residence/thrift store/junk yard.  We also documented various automotive wastage along the way and into the eastern entrance to Death Valley.  I also find a roadside photo (no, I did not go inside) of the notorious Cottontail Ranch which suddenly popped up in the middle of the barren desert.  And the evening before, we spotted a strategically-placed sheriff’s vehicle with cardboard cutout of an occupant “officer”.  A few images here, must be hundreds more somewhere …