LAPL
In one spot, the LAPL dates this picture as 1955... anyway, the curious box on top came later than the era of the cars in the shot. Would love to know what the box was--what could it have been advertising?
LAPL
As for Bradley's across Cherokee...the building started out as a bank, then, before the five-and-dime, "'...something strange' was going on at Bradley's, something involving queers"...
From
The Story of Hollywood by Gregory Paul Williams