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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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A mystery location.
Here's a c.1950 car accident photograph that I don't believe we have seen on NLA.
from losangelestheaters, but they don't know the location.
CAPTION:
"This c.1950 shot is in the Los Angeles Public Library collection Note the theatre signage beyond the car.
The Library's caption for the photo is not helpful in identitying the location."....LOS ANGELES THEATRES
And here's the description over at LAPL.
"Automobile in the street after an accident coming out of a driveway, 1950's."....LAPL
Does anyone recognized the location?
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This is a tough one. At first, I thought it might be Ventura Boulevard, or somewhere in the Valley. The obvious start is the optometrist.
Paul Pincus Komm, born in Kharkov 8/13/18, moved to Buffalo as a child. He attended UCSB and registered for the draft in 1940. He graduated from the School of Optometry at UCLA in 1942. In the 1950 Blue Book for Optometrists, he was listed as having an office at 215 W. 5th Street downtown. Subsequently there are some mentions of him on the society pages of the Valley News, mostly about ocean cruises he and his wife Eileen took. He died 3/20/99 in Tarzana.
There are other businesses in the photo besides the illegible theater marquee: "Gourmets [sic] Pantry", Lou's ___(watches?), _. A. Perry. Below "Lou's" you can see (barely) "Dr. Paul Komm."
I think the address could be found SFV directories which don't seem to be online. EDIT: oops, it looks like I had the right boulevard, but the wrong city. The 1963 Oxnard city directory has the following:
Komm Paul optom 2173 Ventura blvd (Cam) r North Hollywood
and
Lou's Jewelers (Louis S Garnica) 2171 Ventura blvd (Cam)
The Valley Theatre is not the one in the picture; it was further east.
Today, meh:
GSV