Alison Martino's 'Vintage Los Angeles' Resurrects A Forgotten City

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As the daughter of actor and singer Al Martino (best known for his role as an Italian crooner in The Godfather), Alison Martino watched her parents act like most celebrity couples in Los Angeles. Drinks at the moat-surrounded Luau in Beverly Hills. Dinner at the glamorous star-magnet Chasen's. But unlike the other kids she knew, Martino didn't have to stay at home. "They took me everywhere," she says. "So I got really sad about it when these places I went to that had stuck around for 30 to 40 years started going away."

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[derrickhoyle]

06:53 PM on 05/02/2011

Love the video....Charles Phoenix would be proud.

[robodawa]

10:22 PM on 05/01/2011

I'd like to see some of these work their way into rear screen projection work. Maybe some one can make a new series of the folding post card series. Still, my favorite Los Angeles Era was
when the Angel's Flight still had homes.

[bart4u]

08:48 PM on 04/30/2011

I just subscribed on You Tube. I grew up in Los Angeles in the 60's and 70's and I noticed there was a light blue 1958 MGA in one of the Sunset Strip scenes. There were not many MG's that color in the city. I wonder if that was my dads old car. Cool stuff.

[tucsoncindy]

03:28 PM on 04/30/2011

Found you on Curbed LA last week..so glad I found your site. Great Stuff !