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Originally Posted by BifRayRock
Free Ice Cream at the Pay'n Takit.
Trying to locate the address of this Pay'n Takit store. Source indicates it dates from '32. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/49642 Many of the kids are without shoes. Could be a sign of the Depression or common to kids everywhere. 
There are actually quite a few Pay'n Takit stores. GW mentions it early in this thread as being adjacent to the Western Auto at Hauser and Wilshire http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6844 but I am confident that store is not the same as the one below. It is possible that the pictured store was in Long Beach or per the '36CD, one of three LA locations: 5567 N Figueroa; 4709 S Western Ave or 4953 York Blvd. None of these locations seem to apply. The main office was at 1925 E Vernon Ave.
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The 1934 CD lists Pay'N Takit stores at 419 N Fairfax Avenue, 4905 S Figueroa Street, 2773 W Pico Boulevard, 2093 W Washington Boulevard and 4721 Whittier Boulevard. I couldn't find any mention in the contemporary Long Beach directories. I had a quick look at each location, but couldn't immediately match any of them. Maybe the large Bank of America roof sign in the background could be a clew. Most of their vintage roof signs were solid rectangles with the text on two lines.
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