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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
^^^Here is a photograph showing the Brew 102 Building Sopas_ej. It was taken from the top of City Hall in 1952.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3...c1vbrewery.jpg
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I just noticed the Friedman Bag Company is there as well.
Are those the ventilation fans you were talking about Scott?
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Yep, that's them! Here's another view, from highway level, in this case Aliso Street:
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Back when I was a kid, each of those ventilator fan things were painted a variety of bright pastel colors. They really stood out against the drab background of the gas storage tanks.
Anyway, your picture above is really fantastic. I guess that wasn't really freeway through there yet, though I'd think it would have been by 1952. There's evidently a traffic signal or stop sign there just beyond the Brew 102 building where cars are all stopped. And I love how Commercial Street is 6 lanes of one-way traffic in the foreground! Then 3 lanes veer sharply to the left and turn into Aliso/101. Great highway engineering there!
-Scott