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Originally Posted by Engineeral
PCC streetcars were first used in Los Angeles in 1937, so that's the earliest date for this picture.
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e_r's photo shows up for the first time in the 1938 CD at 319 W 5th. This agrees with the earliest date possible inferred by the presence of the streetcar.
I thought the location might have been a movie theater with a stripped-down marquee, but it turns out to have been a Boos Brothers cafeteria for many years before 1938.