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Originally Posted by BifRayRock
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After spending too much time studying the early aerials I think the dark blob indicated by my arrow was in fact the La Cienega oil well.
Beverly is at the top if the image with the big Rexall store at the Southeast corner of La Cienega, 3rd St. is at the bottom.
I think this would be today's view:
http://maps.google.com
Another little tidbit: in the first photo, to the right of the tall young lady and beneath the Seagram's billboard, is the barely visible Smokey Joe's Cafe. You can see the sign a little more clearly on the zoomed snippet below. (Same source.)
Smokey Joe's Cafe was the beanery that inspired Leiber and Stoller's novelty rock hit of the same name, recorded by The Coasters.
