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Lomara · #**45181** Posted **Jan 28, 2018, 10:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by JimCraig

I get my fix first thing in the AM. Great way to start the day!

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Originally Posted by sadykadie2

Nightly addict here as well. I get the shakes if I don't get on NLA

Weekly addict here. I fell into this thread during a thankfully short-lived bout of unemployment in 2016. I can't remember now what I was searching for at the time.

tovangar2 · #**45182** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 4:09 AM**

Hot, dry, dusty, gusting Santa Anas tonight. The palm trees are making that particularly ominous clattering sound.

ethereal_reality · #**45183** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 4:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lorendoc

Always surprises here. This is a block from my office, where I am typing this.

ethereal_reality

EBAY

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Originally Posted by Lorendoc

e_r's picture is taken looking east on Olympic from Fairfax, here is the Sanborn:

lapl.org

hmmm...I wonder what that giant egg is doing beneath 1012 Fairfax?

Here's the area shown on your Sanborn map Lorendoc.

1936

USC digital archive

a closer look at the service station. (if you're just tuning in, it's the one in the color slide)

I think that guy might be walking his dog over to those bushes.

This is the building next to the station. In two years, it will be replaced by the drive-in (we discussed earlier)

This might be a small cafe (or perhaps a real estate office?

)

We have visited this area before. you can find it HERE

Thanks for posting the Sanborn Lorendoc.

ethereal_reality · #**45184** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 4:36 AM**

I guess I'll stick with the service station theme.

I found this negative in one of my old files. I didn't post it because I couldn't turn it into a positive image. (I use to be able to

do it)

here it is anyway--

ebay

the seller used a magnifying glass to read the street sign.

Olympic? and Bellflower

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odinthor · #**45185** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 5:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I guess I'll stick with the service station theme.

I found this negative in one of my old files. I didn't post it because I couldn't turn it into a positive image. (I use to be able to

)

here it is anyway--

ebay

the seller used a magnifying glass to read the street sign.

Olympic? and Bellflower

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Voila!

image via e_r from ebay

(Here's how in Photoshop: Image > Adjustments > Invert.)

Mstimc · #**45186** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 5:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by tovangar2

Hot, dry, dusty, gusting Santa Anas tonight. The palm trees are making that particularly ominous clattering sound.

Very Raymond Chandler-esque!

Lorendoc · #**45187** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 5:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by odinthor

Voila!

image via e_r from ebay

(Here's how in Photoshop: Image > Adjustments > Invert.)

It's Olympic and Bellwood:

Sanborn via lapl.org

Not an improvement:

gsv

ethereal_reality · #**45188** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 5:40 AM**

Boy, you two are fast tonight! thx

boy, that Courtyard Motel looks like a pile of crap.

a bit of ephemera

"RED LOG, 1776 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles 24, California. Granite 84076"

EBAY

Surprisingly, this little building is a survivor.

GSV

odinthor, I don't have photoshop

)

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Flyingwedge · #**45189** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 5:52 AM**

There is a January 18, 1940, building permit for a service station at 10350 Olympic (between Bellwood and Kerwood),
and a January 6, 1967, permit to demolish an Atlantic Richfield service station at the same address.

There is also a December 23, 1966, building permit for an Atlantic Richfield "service station and minor auto repair"
at the same address, and a June 16, 1998, demo permit for the service station.

The building permit for the Goodwill store now at 10350 Olympic is dated May 25, 2010. Here is a July 2007 GSV shot
from Bellwood of the then-empty lot looking west, with Olympic on the right.

Lorendoc · #**45190** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 6:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

There is a January 18, 1940, building permit for a service station at 10350 Olympic (between Bellwood and Kerwood),
and a January 6, 1967, permit to demolish an Atlantic Richfield service station at the same address.

Yup the gas station in the original picture was at 10350. A longer shot, here:

gsv

ethereal_reality · #**45191** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 6:24 AM**

ephemera 2

Did you know you could learn to knit & crochet daily from 9:30 to 4:30 at Hamburger's Department Store.

FOR FREE!

EBAY

I'll throw in an old sales receipt as well. (I believe this pre-dates the knitting pamphlet by quite a bit) -it might be 1909 unless the '9' is the day

(October 9th, that is.

If interested, you can ee Hamburger's Department Store HERE.

and go HERE to see Hamburger's when it was in the Phillips Block (second photograph down, 1887) -there's a HUGE 'Hamburger's' sign on the roof.
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Flyingwedge · #**45192** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 6:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lorendoc

Yup the gas station in the original picture was at 10350.

(Flyingwedge, your capture doesn't display on my screen - odd.)

Sorry about that!

ethereal_reality · #**45193** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 6:54 AM**

oops. my empherma keeps interrupting you guys' conversation. (I'm not doing it intentionally)

are you finished?

I can wait.

Lorendoc · #**45194** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 7:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

my empherma keeps interrupting you guys' conversation.

are you finished?

I can wait.

Lol we're good

tovangar2 · #**45195** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 7:36 AM**

One more...

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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

There is also a December 23, 1966, building permit for an Atlantic Richfield "service station and minor auto repair"
at the same address, and a June 16, 1998, demo permit for the service station.

My kids were a bit upset when the ARCO station/am pm mini-mart got torn down. It was a minor landmark 'round here.

Here's Reginald Veljohnson doing his memorable bit in "Die Hard" (1988):

twentieth century fox

tovangar2 · #**45196** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 7:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mstimc

Very Raymond Chandler-esque!

I did just reread "The Long Goodbye" (1953), for the first time in 50 years, and rewatched the Altman film (1973). I still like the film better.

OK e_r, I'm done.

ethereal_reality · #**45197** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 7:54 AM**

you're fine. I was just joking.

CaliNative · #**45198** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 8:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

ephemera 2

Did you know you could learn to knit & crochet daily from 9:30 to 4:30 at Hamburger's Department Store.

FOR FREE!

EBAY

I'll throw in an old sales receipt as well. (I believe this pre-dates the knitting pamphlet by quite a bit) -it might be 1909 unless the '9' is the day

(October 9th, that is.

If interested, you can ee Hamburger's Department Store HERE.

and go HERE to see Hamburger's when it was in the Phillips Block (second photograph down, 1887) -there's a HUGE 'Hamburger's' sign on the roof.
_

Did the lunch room serve hamburgers?

CaliNative · #**45199** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 8:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lorendoc

Lol we're good

delete

CaliNative · #**45200** Posted **Jan 29, 2018, 8:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

my empherma keeps interrupting you guys' conversation.

are you finished?

I can wait.

Fat Spanky lived a long life. Poor Alfalfa died young, in a hunting accident I vaguely recall. I wonder what happened to Darla, Froggy & Buckwheat? Robert Blake had a bit part in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" and we all know his bad luck. Sort of like King Tut's curse to work as a rascal I guess, but "Spanky" McFarland did OK.