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Post by Vale on Jan 7, 2020 4:52:44 GMT -5
Hi everyone, after my recent trip to Holland, I thought it might be interesting to create a thread related to the key places of the Beach Boys before and after. In my small way, here is the location of the cover of the Holland album. It is located in Kromme Waal in Amsterdam, you can see the original album cover, my picture and my edited picture upside down. In the original picture there are two boats: the front tugboat was sold many years ago (or so I read) and isn't there anymore, the back one is still there (restored, of course). That picture was taken from a lower point I guess, about 48 years ago, I was on the top of a concrete rise when I took it so the perspective change a bit the look of it. A special thanks to my wife and son for their patience (we walked a couple of km to get there...).    |
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Post by surfinimp on Jan 7, 2020 5:30:04 GMT -5
Brilliant...I love things like this , how did you find out about the location and the tugboat ? Did you get to Baambrugge.?
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Post by Vale on Jan 7, 2020 5:55:18 GMT -5
Brilliant...I love things like this , how did you find out about the location and the tugboat ? Did you get to Baambrugge.? I read about the location on Wikipedia so I went there while I was in Amsterdam. They recorded in Baambrugge but the picture was taken in Amsterdam. The picture was taken yesterday, the Kromme Waal way isn't very long so I found it. When I went to London I took a walk to the Abbey Road ped xing... (always thanks to my wife for blocking the traffic)  |
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Post by John Manning on Jan 7, 2020 7:30:57 GMT -5
Would love to spend some time there… quite amazed the same house barge is still moored in the same spot!
Edit: and easily found on Google Earth… though the pic there isn't anywhere near as up to date as Vale's!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 10:14:23 GMT -5
Amazing! Hubby and I were talking about going either to Amsterdam or to Bruges sometime. I think Vale has helped decide that one. 😉
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Post by dauber on Jan 14, 2020 21:07:36 GMT -5
Paradise Cove before (1962): Paradise Cove after (2016):  |
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Post by goodvibrations33 on Jan 14, 2020 22:07:14 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 1:10:30 GMT -5
I have got to find a way to hike down to paradise cove because if you try to drive there there's always a long line of cars and very expensive parking because it's a big tourist trap. I'll try on a weekday or early in the morning on a Saturday.
Just really want to go there
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Post by E on Jan 16, 2020 2:18:52 GMT -5
Paradise Cove before (1962): Paradise Cove after (2016): Also where Jim Rockford had his trailer. |
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Post by Emdeeh on Jan 16, 2020 9:51:22 GMT -5
Professor, when I went to Paradise Cove in 2008, the parking was free if you ate at the restaurant. Otherwise, it was ridiculously high.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 18:17:41 GMT -5
Yes and the food is overpriced and not too good. But I guess one could make A-day of it. I'm gonna try to find a way to hike their from point dume. Are there any old pictures of the boys hanging out at Foster's freeze on Hawthorne boulevard where I have often gone and where I send the students on a research trip. That would make a good Before & After 2. The hamburger stand if you will.
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Post by dauber on Jan 17, 2020 10:44:33 GMT -5
Yep, as of 2018, when I was last there, the parking lot was still HUGELY overpriced, unless you get food in the café.
Having said that, something must have changed since 2008 because my wife and I went there in 2016 and again in 2018 and both time had an amazing meal. Their clam chowder is the best soup I've ever had, EVER. And I've had me plenty of amazing soups throughout my life.
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Post by Mikie on Jan 17, 2020 11:55:22 GMT -5
I'm just wondering why Dauber didn't clean the bird crap off the "This Marks The Spot" sign before he took a picture of it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 23:26:18 GMT -5
OI just made a reservation to be there tomorrow morning, and I will eat in the restaurant. No time like the present.. It does not look like we need any particular photo or research on my part.Just standing there imagining the y beach boys there will be reward enough for getting up early and hitting the freeways.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 14:58:49 GMT -5
I wish I knew how to add photos to this from my phone buy my photos are pretty much what you see above and could find on the Internet. But I had certainly underestimated the emotional impact of walking out to the spot and standing right where the boys were on that famous day. I also under estimated how good the food is here and how good the service and how beautiful the view is from the restaurant and how so many people for the last 100 years including Jack Benny and the all time actress thita bara ate here. I completely recommend this as a beach boy pilgrimage for anyone visiting Southern California and I'm shocked that I waited 27 years in my time here to make this journey. But I do recommend making a reservation in advance and going early in the day. If you eat in the restaurant and spend $30 the parking is only 8 bucks but if you just come to park and take a photo they will charge you 35 which is kind of a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 16:22:10 GMT -5
And while we are at it. Is the cover of surfer girl also from the same photo shoot and simply a shot of the boys just about 50' or so from where the shot in the truck is?
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Post by Mikie on Jan 20, 2020 17:11:42 GMT -5
Photos used for both the Surfin' Safari and Surfer Girl album sleeves were from photo shoots on the same day, at Paradise Cove in the Summer of 1962.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 18:19:27 GMT -5
Yeah and that 1 gets a lot less attention because it doesn't have the dramatic rocks so can't exactly mark the spot and any stretch of beach that doesn't have coastline on it pretty much looks the same from San Diego up through Morro Bay.
But the next time I'm there I'll try to visualize where the boys were.
I'm at the former location of legion stadium in El Monte California where Frank Zappa and the mothers of invention had played and perhaps captain beefheart too and I don't know if The Beach Boys ever played here but I don't think that they did.
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Post by E on Jan 21, 2020 2:22:01 GMT -5
 Borrowed from the Hoff.   Also featured in Columbo  Harry O at Paradise Cove (from the opposite direction) |
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