Hello, found this thread while doing a Google search for something Gilmore. Think I can answer a few of your Q's...
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Just found this...it looks like you're on to something, Chuckaluck. It looks like Anderson's station may have been a Deco remodeling of an earlier Gilmore....
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Yes, same location. I do not know if Vic Anderson operated it then/originally. Do not know when it was originally built. Earliest mention I have seen of it (the Beverly-Fairfax station) is late 1930.
Same station...
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/2109/rec/35
Another shot of it on the USC site...
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/43536/rec/1
You'll notice in one of the photos, a shed-like structure on the right that says "GILMORE THE FLYING LION". The lion in reference is aviator Roscoe Turner's African lion flying partner/pet/mascot- Gilmore! After Gilmore's flying days were over, this is where Gilmore stayed for a brief period. Until, neighbors complained and city officials made Turner and the Gilmore Co. relocate him.
