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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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We have actually seen this image before, but not with any of the elaboration you provided.
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=17711
FWIW, there is a listing for the "City Garden" at San Pedro and Eighth. E.g., the
1893CD lists it as an Amusement. (1894CD lists a "City Garden" Saloon at Fifth and Broadway.)
I wonder about the attributed age of this image. The utility pole and paved-over tracks certainly suggests this could be the early '20s. Yet by that time fuel was generally being dispensed via dedicated pumps (which may not be in view). Much earlier, fuel would have been sold by the tin. Hard to say whether this was more of a general store versus an actual gas station. Also, unclear that advertising horse tack and whip maintenance was still in vogue by the '20s. A place lost in time???
I do not recognized the round object hanging from the upstairs window. It could be an advertisement for something that begins with a "T". Telegraph or telephone service? The shadow below the window suggests possibly that the object has been in place for sometime, rather than something temporarily hung out (to dry)? A light shade of some sort? A hose or wire spool?
Did Thor misplace a shield? . . . A before its time satellite dish?
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