My hat is off to
HossC for his excellent detective work on the history of 1150 S La Brea! I'm kind of astonished that it was
the Shelby dealership for a time, considering how small the building is and the incongruence of an exotic auto dealership located in a fairly ho-hum section of mid-city Los Angeles.
I'm fascinated too by the additional photo posted by
Godzilla. The top of the "sunburst" seems very rough-edged where it meets the roofline. I have a sneaking suspicion it may have originally extended well beyond the roofline, and was simply sawn off when Caler's folded. Hopefully a photo of the building in it's "Caler's Food Market" incarnation will turn up one day. I'm also curious to know whether the front of the market was open to the street, as seems to have been common to many Los Angeles markets in the 1930s.
Here are two photos of the same building as it looks now, post-renovation.
It's a little hard to see, but the sunburst (or what remains of it) was simply painted over.