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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Here's Harvey Smith's used car lot up in Westchester. The street number is 232.
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That's an interesting little bungalow at far right and I'd like to see what structures reside behind the large white fence.
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I think the ebay seller's location is incorrect. Westchester doesn't have three-digit street numbers -- but Inglewood does.
The 1950 Inglewood-Lennox Directory shows Harvey Smith Oldsmobile was at 313 N. La Brea in Inglewood, so perhaps the
used car lot was across the street at 322?
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The 1947 Inglewood City Directory lists a shoe repair shop at 332 N. La Brea, possibly the same one at the far left of the photo
(where the "HOE REPAIR" sign is):
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Here is the February 1950 Inglewood Sanborn map showing the 300 block of N. La Brea in Inglewood. The new car dealership is
at 313, on the west side of La Brea. On the east side, the house at 324 could be the one looming above the used car lot. At
328-30-32 there are three small shops, one of which could be the shoe repair shop in the photo. The residential roof seen in back
of the shoe repair sign could be the house at 402 N. La Brea, on the northeast corner of Ivy:
ProQuest via LA Public Library