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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
 Alden Jewell
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9230 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills: Same building (and same lamppost), but none of the charm.
 Alden Jewell
A shot of a prior showroom of Hillcrest Cadillac, 1949; the dealership was at 9230 Wilshire then, but the lamppost here
is not one with the typical and long-standing Wilshire Blvd-in-BH base seen in the other pictures. Maybe they had a
satellite showroom somewhere else in L.A.....
Edit: Still don't know where the above showroom might have been, but apparently there was once a Hillcrest branch in this building at the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd and Orange:
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7010 Hollywood Blvd.
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In 1948 Hillcrest Motor Company vacated the building and an appliance store called Electra City moved in. Electra City sold all types of appliances, TV's and radios.http://gogonotes.blogspot.com
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Post 1948? or '47 (Pomona Library and
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Undated, no address. Look carefully to the right of the bystander's head.
Hillcrest? "Cadillac" "Marmon" Do I see the reflection of "Auburn?" (
EL Cord??)
Lapl