The place to be on August 11, 1960! Honer Plaza Shopping Center, located at the corner of 17th and Bristol, in Santa Ana, CA
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ei2Ik5quiI...lyshopping.jpghttp://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogsp...s-up-band.html

10 hours 55 minutes!

http://imageshack.us/a/img210/696/aa...s55minutes.jpg
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I just noticed it doesn't say from where though. I am guessing New York City.
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Still looking for an answer regarding what originally occupied the space at 370 N. Fairfax.

In meantime, across the street (415 N. Fairfax) next to what is now Cantors used to be an A&P and 419 was a Safeway! (1936) http://www.groceteria.com/place/cali...ons-1932-1942/

http://media.merchantcircle.com/3208...HKZo_full.jpeggoogle

Around the corner on Beverly in or around 1932:
7161 Piggly Wiggly;
8100 Von's Grocery (1936) now a mini mall;
8108 Piggly Wiggly; and
8110 an A&P! Both 8108 and 8110 may now be occupied by a Linen Store (below).

http://img1.nelso.us/9a21b2f863d0f76...fd_640x478.jpghttp://images1.citysearch.net/assets...5/JCsSjgMv.jpggoogle

According to the source, only the Vons was listed as a grocery market by 1936 so either the others moved or were occupied by non-chain merchants. http://www.groceteria.com/place/cali...ons-1932-1942/ "Compiled from city directory listings"

Interesting interior. I wonder if the interior of the 'Pig n' Whistle' on Hollywood Boulevard is anything like that?


http://imageshack.us/a/img525/7105/aapignw.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jondoeforty1/2805534578/
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http://imageshack.us/a/img26/3924/aabusterminal1r.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img195/416/aabusterminalpc.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img222/8697/a...minaltoday.jpg
google street view




http://imageshack.us/a/img827/650/aa...inaltoday1.jpg
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California National Bank of Long Beach building. Pine Avenue at the corner of 1st Street in Long Beach - 1925
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077206.jpg

1930
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077200.jpg

Buffums, 1926
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077259.jpg All from LAPL

Another beauty gone!

1932 Wise Department Store, Northeast corner of Broadway and Pine - Long Beach
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...A1B6ESVNFM.jpglibrary.ca.gov

I came across this fantastic tourist snapshot of the old Selig Zoo. ---> (I like the girl in the sunglasses) :)

http://imageshack.us/a/img820/8354/a...selig1930s.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img253/8354/a...selig1930s.jpg


See bifrayrock's marvelous post on the Selig Zoo here.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8752

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This is such a beautiful building! What is the F-M in the distance?
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1985 -
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...P26HSTKJ4J.jpglibraryCAgov

Farmers and Merchant's Bank building, also a Long Beach icon.
http://www.southlandarchitecture.com...01005-003a.jpghttp://www.southlandarchitecture.com...01005-001a.jpghttp://www.southlandarchitecture.com...k-Building.php

Third Ave and Venice Blvd. -1925
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...G7P5GFC63V.jpgcallib

Eagle may have still been in the nest or unhatched. Clearly a different style from above.1215 Westwood Boulevard Unk date
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...LR8HE1PQXF.jpgCalLib

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1919 unknown subjects
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UXE9YSYXTP.jpgCalLib

Retro-future Los Angeles, February 1953. I love this illustration (notice that it says Figueroa on the monorail car)

http://imageshack.us/a/img222/3521/a...comonorail.jpg
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I am not sure why a Conoco motor oil ad is emphasizing mass transit. Am I missing something?
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3...Asched1951.jpg


From the Sept 30, 1951, AA skeds--a couple of years before regular nonstop service


timetableimages.com

If I'm reading the chart correctly GW, the one stop was Chicago Midway. I would have guessed a location further west....say Kansas City.
But then again, I don't know the fuel capacity of the airplane (and of course passengers were probably picked up in Chicago)

Nevermind...I'm just babbling.
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Here is another 'one stop' ad, this time from TWA circa 1950 (flying the sleek Lockheed Constellation).

http://imageshack.us/a/img856/5427/aaadonestop.jpg
http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/airl...t-ads-1950s/63



http://imageshack.us/a/img834/4853/aacons.jpg
http://taxi-dog.com/2011/12/
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TWA-- from its September 24, 1950, timetable:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8...ndensedred.jpg


And United's service is similar to its competitors'--this is from the January 4, 1953, timetable:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e...2520PM.bmp.jpg

Both timetableimages.com

I like these vintage time tables GaylordWilshire. What make of airplane did United fly at this point in time?
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American and United were flying DC6s on the transcon routes--TWA would get its bigger Super Constellations online by the end of '52, and then AA & UA responded with the DC7 a year or so later. The Super Con & DC7 were finally able to sustain transcon nonstops--only westbound at first, then both ways after improvements to engines and some wrangling with the government over crew hours. Jets came with AA's 707s in January 1959.