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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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This rather dreary snapshot of an interesection in Los Angeles was justed listed on eBay
. . .and it's tonight's 'mystery' location. ...(smog and all)
eBay
If you look closely, there is a street sign between the Gilmore lion and the Sunset Deluxe sign.
Shall we take a closer look?
OK, then.
detail
Hrumph, the street sign is still too small to read. 
But we do have. . .
Compton.........8
Wilmington.....17
Long Beach....18
So at least we know we're looking south.
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We're indeed looking south,
e-r, down the west roadway of Long Beach Ave. at Vernon Ave.
The street sign yielded the name of the cross street when I magnified your original, stuck my face near the screen and squinted really hard.
Looking at the left edge of the original view, we can see that there's an industrial-size incinerator marking the far side of the east roadway; and we can barely make out some rails. The extreme width of the right-of-way between the roadways tells us that this is the PE's "four tracks", which ran in the median of Long Beach Ave.
A quick check in the Googlemobile shows that, other than the former PE right-of-way (now the Metro A Line and a UP secondary freight line), nothing remains of this scene today.