Thanks to
sopas ej,
DViator and
tovangar2 for the follow-ups on the Pasadena stores. It looks like I had the right place all along!
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Before today's Julius Shulman post, an excerpt from one I made last year. The full post is
here.
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Originally Posted by HossC
Today's Julius Shulman post is "Job 168: Sears, Roebuck and Company (Compton, Calif.), 1948".
The Garden Shop.
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I've just found the photoset showing the inside of the garden shop. This is
"Job 316: Stiles Oliver Clements, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Garden Shop (Compton, Calif.), 1948".
A look along the outside.
Glazed pottery with the cash register in the middle.
The final shot shows lawn mowers and sacks of plant food.
All from
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Last year, I finished my post with this:
Quote:
Originally Posted by HossC
The building, or at least most of it, is still standing near Orchard Avenue on N Long Beach Boulevard. The latest GSV images show it boarded up, but I found several articles like this one at mynewsla.com which say that a Walmart Supercenter will be opening in the old Sears site in late 2016.
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The former Sears store did indeed become a Walmart, although it still looks quite bunker-like from the street (there were windows in the Sears days).
GSV
There's nothing left of the garden shop, but when I turned the camera around, I realized I was looking at the subject of another Shulman post. Nearly opposite the garden shop you'd have found this Bekins Storage building (there's a "now" shot in
the original post. It's just visible on the left of the picture above.
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Originally Posted by HossC
We're back to a single image from Julius Shulman today. It's "Job 285: Stiles Oliver Clements, Bekins (Long Beach, Calif.), 1948".
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