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Old Posted Jun 18, 2017, 7:00 PM
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There are just two images in today's Julius Shulman post - one color and one black & white. They're from "Job 2531: Victor Gruen Associates, World Savings Banks Institute (Lynwood, Calif.), 1958".



The images show the same angle, but I like both for different reasons.



Both from Getty Research Institute

Here's a vintage picture from Lynwood by Ilu Johnson and Chris Diaz. There's no date, but the cars suggest to me that it's probably mid- to late-60s.


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When I took the Googlemobile to the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and Imperial Highway, I found a McDonald's. The buildings on the right of the image above are still there. Looking at Historic Aerials, the bank building disappeared sometime between 1980 and 1994.

The vault apparently had an 18 ton door!



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