Pasadena Digital History
As it turns out, the Market Basket we came across a couple of weeks ago was not, as the Denver Public Library labeled it, in Compton at all. It was 20 miles to the northeast in Baldwin Park. I sent the query to the experts at PERyHS, and, courtesy of the great Ralph Cantos and Craig Rasmussen, we now know that car 1221 is getting ready to depart the Baldwin Park PE station for Los Angeles. The Market Basket was listed in the 1947 BP CD at "105 E Ramona" (Groceteria lists it at 101)--there has been a renumbering since then, but this puts the Market Basket at the NE corner of Ramona Blvd and Maine Ave. where there is now a Bank of America. The post office at the extreme left of the expanded Denver Library view is apparently the one that was at 312 N Maine in 1947, which puts it right behind the Market Basket. As for the BoA...in 1947 it was diagonally across the intersection at 100 W Ramona Blvd in a building that appears to be one of the few vintage structures still standing. (Btw, an old brick PE substation also still stands near the junction of Ramona and Badillo.)
(According to Groceteria, the BP Market Basket was store #13; the Morris Garage seen at right in the larger Denver library view was at 137 East Ramona in the 1947 CD.)
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Full expandable view here:
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm...id/77113/rec/1
I dug around a little--a Morris Garage--there is one at far right in the bigger picture--was listed at 601 E Compton...to the west of this address on a the corner today is an interesting Deco building, but it does not seem to correspond to the Market Basket... or maybe it was a block farther west, now an empty lot... or not on Compton Blvd at all. no Market Basket listings in Compton CDs in the '40s. There appears to be a post office at far left of big pic, but not enough detail to confirm that this is Compton. There is a "Pete's" filling station at the far right--also not in the 1946 Compton directory. To its left appears to be a possible street number--maybe 146 or 146. I think one of our foamers will have to sort this one out based on the PE car and the interurban routes. |
The former Bank of America building, caddy-corner from its modern counterpart on the site of the Market Basket:
April 2012 and August 2014 GSVs
The PE Vineland substation still standing near Ramona and Badillo:
GSV