Foster freeze carson12/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The Culver City and Santa Monica signs had faded over the years. ![]() The other side was probably a replacement. Only one of the embossed panels is embossed. The building most likely started out with a flat roof like one in Ventura shown above. The Foster's Freeze location was built in 1960. This Foster's Freeze building most likely started out with a flat roof like the one directly above in Ventura. That building has been gone for many years. The original Foster's Freeze in Ventura was built around 1948. The building has housed a battery store, Vinyl Concepts, and, most recently, Barrett Living. I believe this location closed at some point in the late 1970s. This former Foster's Freeze location opened around 1958. It is protected by plastic and appears to have come from a Tastee-Freez stand. The neon ice cream cone sign is installed on the side of the building. Note the white lettering of "Old Fashion" on this plastic sign. ![]() This Foster's Freeze location was built in the 1960s. ![]() I'm sure there were other white panels but there are none on public display now. The other side of the sign features the more common navy panel. This Foster's Freeze location features a rare pole sign panel with a white background and "Patio Dining" text. The building and sign had been remodeled for the Handline restaurant. I have not seen them at any other location. In addition to the script Foster's lettering around the roofline, there were these cute metal additions. This Foster's Freeze appeared to be from the 1950s. In 2009, this Santa Cruz location became Taqueria Agave and the sign was removed. The mascot on the Selma sign has red cheeks. I'd love to know when they made the switch. The Dinuba, Selma and Santa Cruz locations feature later plastic signs. Ongoing changes to the Arctic Ocean's ice cover include the formation of more, new, thin ice during winter and thus more extensive fields of frost flowers, making these icy habitats of increasing interest.(hit "refresh" to get the most recent version of this page click on photos for larger images) Although the behavior of microbes at temperatures as low as -15 degrees Celsius is understood reasonably well, little is known about what happens at the colder temperatures that lead to frost flower formation. Delicate ice-crystal structures called frost flowers arise on the surface of newly formed sea ice under very cold conditions and harbor millions of active microbes.ĭiscovering the abundant microbe communities within frost flowers raises many new questions for researchers such as: "Do the microbes alter the contaminants in these icy habitats?" "Do they become windborne during storms, traveling great distances?" and "How have such extremophiles evolved in polar regions?"Įarly arctic and Antarctic explorers such as Hudson, Cook, Weddell and Ross observed frost flowers, but only recently have scientists learned how they influence the reflection of sunlight off the surface of the ice and concentrate chemical contaminants from the atmosphere.įor this research, graduate students Jeff Bowman and Marcela Ewert at the University of Washington, collaborating with international teams, probed the flowers' inhabitants. ![]()
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