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Old Posted Jul 5, 2014, 9:34 PM
Tourmaline Tourmaline is offline
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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck View Post
Neon and Earle C Anthony, a seemingly inexhaustible topic?

1929 Packard, 1000 S. Hope (Look to far right above and between what appears to be garage entrance and exit. Could that be one of LA's earliest neon signs? )
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...HLEJMJQLIE.jpg


Guessing the above Packard sign would have been on the outside directly above these two building openings.
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...5N4H1CDRHJ.jpg


Probably not.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gyCekNQQsq...47-pacsign.jpg



But - Packards were on La Brea (a few blocks north of Wilshire).


Breawood Auto Service Station - 367 N. La Brea

Source dates photos 1933. CD Listing is from 1938. 1936 CD has listing for Breawood Market at 401 N. La Brea.http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...00003/00000002


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/37318/rec/50











*Edit Source incorrectly labels this a 1939 or '40 Packard Cab. No address or additional info provided. Since been identified as a '39-'41 Checker Cab.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/11167/rec/57

6051?







1931 - Tenth (later Olympic) and Hope http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/19633/rec/76










Neon in '31



Per this "1931" Neon seems to have be de rigueur in this LA neighborhood.


Last edited by Tourmaline; Jul 6, 2014 at 4:05 AM.
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