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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
The seller places these two snapshots in Los Angeles.
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I looked for Warren's U-Drive in both the 1942 and 1956 city directories
(1943 thru 1955 are missing at lapl...as most of you know). I came up empty handed.
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OK, there are seven Hertz locations in the 1956 LA street directory [thanks
RiT for car identification]:
800 N Alameda [Union Station]
7001 Hollywood Boulevard [across from Roosevelt hotel]
9641 Sunset Boulevard [Beverly Hills Hotel]
3569 Vernon [truck rental]
718 E 3rd [truck rental - Little Tokyo]
555 W 5th [near Biltmore Hotel]
915 W 7th [Statler Hotel]
At 513 W 5th, the 1956 directory has a listing for "LA Car Rental System," which I'll wager was Warren's. The 555 address for Hertz would be to the pictures' left, as the arrow on the second one indicates.
The Sanborn map of this address:
lapl.org
shows a narrow gap to the west of 513 W 5th, which is visible in the second picture. And the pictures show a perceptible grade up to the left (west) up toward Bunker Hill.