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Old Posted Jun 26, 2012, 8:43 PM
KevinW KevinW is offline
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
I always thought the only Camel billboard that actually smoked was in Times Square, NYC.

But here is one in Los Angeles puffing away!


http://www.aaa.si.edu/

I would love to figure out where this was located. Does anyone here recognize this particular corner?

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You're right GW, it does look like Hollywood so I looked up the old L.A. Central Directory for 1942 (the closest I could find to 1949) and came up with this


LAPL

Seems like the choices from here are

5227 W. Adams
648 S. Alvarado
7901 Beverly Blvd.
543, 4421 or 8657 S. Broadway
2306 Brooklyn Ave
3651 or 5452 Crenshaw Blvd.
5931 Franklin Ave
5719 Figaroa
6637 Hollywood Blvd.
520 S. Main
8800 W. Pico Blvd
5547 Santa Monica Blvd
8005 Sunset Blvd.
1730 N. Vermont Ave
5825 or 8416 S. Vermont Ave
998 S. Western Ave.
4801 Whittier Blvd.
2033 or 5401 Wilshire Blvd.

Pretty exhaustive list so I decided to go to Google Street View and see where the corner locations were.


Seems to me like the building at Beverly and Wilshire is too tall. I'd say the most promising is 6637 Hollywood Blvd., next door to Musso and Franks.


Google Street View

Either that or 998 S. Western which now looks like this:



The street lamps match in the first shot. I dunno. You decide.
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