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Originally Posted by HossC
I think this is the photo you're referring to, oldstuff. The website has the picture captioned as a "1929 Pierce-Arrow". No location is given.
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Wow, what a great mystery! Will anyone be able to solve it?!?
Well, the car does have California plates, but that could mean the photo was taken in San Francisco or anywhere else in the state... but it
looks like L.A..
There are no reverse-image-search results found by Google or Tin Eye... there are no Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo results for “Onita Los Angeles”.... nor are they any results for “Onita”
anything...
Here's all I can tell from looking at the photo:
• The street we're standing on ends in a T. The building on the top right stands at the juncture of the T street.
• We are also looking over a hill. The street rises, and falls, before it reaches the end of the street, at the apartment building.
• From what we can see of the
other buildings on the left, they are
above street level, on a hill themselves. If you look
through the car's rear window, you seem to be able to see steps leading to a house, a Craftsman-esque column on the porch, and a plant and some grass, all angled as if going up a hill:
The only area I can think of offhand that has all of the above qualities is
Carroll Ave, at it approaches Edgeware Road - the houses on the left are above street level; the elevation of the street rises, then falls (though it's difficult to tell in this photo); and the street ends in a T:
However, various details reveal that this is
not Carroll Ave - for example, the street in the old photo is far too wide to be Carroll Ave.
I don't know if this one can be solved... it could be in San Francisco... it could be in LA, but on a hill that's been leveled decades ago...
...
now what other streets go over a hill and terminate in a T..?
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