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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I just came across these two photographs of a UNITED SERVICE gas station at 5301 Melrose Avenue.
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The entire post (#25030) is
HERE.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
The site today is a Paramount Studio parking lot.
google-aerial
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Originally Posted by HossC
[...] I went for the earlier 1948 view because it's clearer. Could that be e_r's United Service Station on the corner of Melrose and Van Ness?
Historic Aerials
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The entire post (#25036) is
HERE.
These posts, and several others around them, discuss the gas station, Paramount Studios and several other buildings in the area.
ANOTHER GAS STATION:
In the above aerial, at approximately 5400 Melrose Ave. at Bronson, is Dave's Texaco Gas Station.
I discovered a website with a page titled: "Melrose Avenue Circa 1944 - 1948." The introduction reads as follows:
The following notes describe true events and activities concerning my friends and me during our High School years in the Hollywood/Los Angeles area prior to and following the end of WW II when Southern California was a much different place than it is today. The storyline centers around Dave's Texaco Gas Station on Melrose Avenue located across the street from RKO & Paramount Studios in Hollywood…
http://melrose.vonborks.org/
The following is a current aerial of the area where the author has overlayed (in yellow) many of the places he talks about that are no longer present. You can see that where the gas station was located is now a parking lot.
The building west of it, Lucy's Restaurant, is also gone and now part of the parking lot. It was a restaurant owned by Steven Crane, formerly married to Lana Turner, and he has stories about this.
He has a table of contents of locations that he talks about, including ones I've not heard of before, like The Airliner Lounge, a bar off Hollywood Blvd. at Wilcox. (He has a question mark after Wilcox.)
He tells a lot of interesting stories, not all of them PG rated! (Involving drugs, jail, celebrities, a gang bang...for instance.) He was born in 1929, so he was a teenager during this period; fifteen in 1944. It's an entertaining read!
He doesn't provide addresses and there is only a couple photographs, like this one of the author's friend Eddy and his girlfriend in front of the Texaco Station on the left and on the right is the same girl with the author, who has the unlikely name of Manfred von Borks:
Some of the locations he has stories about are
John Burroughs Junior High
Fairfax High School
Hollywood High School
The Airliner Lounge
Lucy’s Restaurant
Leroy Shoes
Melrose Grotto
Polar Palace*
Spyders Pool Hall
The Beer Garden
*I see that the Polar Palace has been mentioned "once" on NLA. In post #4153,
HERE, there is one photo of it from May 16, 1963...when it burned to the ground.