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Old Posted Jan 25, 2018, 9:24 PM
Lorendoc Lorendoc is offline
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Olympic/Fairfax

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
"Mobilgas, Olympic Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, 1948"


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

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


lapl.org

You can see the drive-in restaurant immediately to the east behind the gas station. The drive-in is from 1936:


LADBS

...and here is the obligatory "now" view:



gsv

The gas station is now a Starbucks.

Last edited by Lorendoc; Jan 26, 2018 at 6:13 AM. Reason: corrected info
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