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Tag: Rick McCloskey

  • I LOVE L.A.: Rick McCloskey: Van Nuys Blvd. 1972 – LENSCRATCH

    I LOVE L.A.: Rick McCloskey: Van Nuys Blvd. 1972 - LENSCRATCH

    I LOVE L.A.: Rick McCloskey: Van Nuys Blvd. 1972 – LENSCRATCH

    The idea of cruising is/was a national past time in small towns and big cities. I well remember the cool night air as a carload of girlfriends and I drove down Sunset Strip night after night in someone’s family station wagon, air thick with adolescent perspiration and teen spirit pheromones, looking for something not quite

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    Los Angeles has always been about car culture and what better project to go back in time and experience those nights of freedom and friends, laughing and looking for love (or trouble) than Rick McCloskey’s series from 1972, Van Nuys Blvd. Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson celebrated this world in his movie, Licorice Pizza. In the summer of 1972, Rick McCloskey went to Van Nuys Boulevard, near his parents’ home and for three months, every Wednesday and sometimes Friday and Saturday evenings photographed the action.

  • Cruising Down “The Boulevard” of the San Fernando Valley During the 1970s – Feature Shoot

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    Cruising Down “The Boulevard” of the San Fernando Valley During the 1970s – Feature Shoot

    Growing up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California during the 1950s and ‘60s, American photographer Rick McCloskey spent his youth cruising Van Nuys Boulevard every Wednesday night. His family home, just one city block from “The Boulevard” was located a few blocks from the famed Bob’s Big Boy Restaurant, home of the All-American meal: burgers and milkshakes.