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Once more. . . .
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
I haven't heard about this before, either. It looks like this photo began appearing online a couple years ago when Jim Heimann's 3rd book about L.A. architecture was published, California Crazy.
The only other thing I could find about it was on Martin Turnbull's site, where he has this newspaper ad, from the Los Angeles Evening Herald, August 24, 1916.
 Martin Turnbull |
hmm. . .so the giant mailbox was a mimetic novelty built by a real estate company to lure potential buyers to an area called "THE NEW TOWN"
. . .but where exactly was this 'New Town' located?
P.S.
..The giant mailbox made me think of the
'Giant Sphinx' that once stood at 537 No. Fairfax Ave.
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