Today we're moving almost directly due east from the last Julius Shulman location. Here's the South Gate-Walnut Park branch of the Bank of America at 2700 Santa Ana Street. On the left is Long's Hardware at 2708 Santa Ana Street, while on the right is a large sign for Carl's Beauty Salon at 8114 Seville Avenue. The photoset is
"Job 1353: Bank of America (Los Angeles, Calif.),1952".
With a little help from the 1956 CD, some of the businesses on the left are: Santa Ana Cleaners, Luckey's Barber Shop, Petersen's Dress Shop and Haskell's Pharmacy. I'm guessing that the store with the RCA Victor sign is Watson's TV & Appliances, which shows up at 8000 Seville Avenue in 1956. On the right, I think the sidewalk clock probably belonged to the R W Wilson jewelry store. Behind that is Turnbull Bros Paint Store.
Looking north, we have the Sav-Mor Market and Stevie's Liquor Store on the left. On the right, I love the look of Miles Appliances. Next to that is the Southern California Gas Company, and how could I ignore another Chop Suey sign?
All from
Getty Research Institute
As soon as I dropped the Google man on the corner of Seville and Santa Ana, I knew we'd been here before. Before I get to that, these two buildings are on the left of the second Shulman photo. They're pretty much the only survivors.
GSV
The reason why there are so few survivors is the huge redevelopment of this area in the 1970s. The first two aerials below were originally posted by me in
post #27078, and show the changes that took place. As a reminder, the post was part of our search for the Palm Place Loop and Serber's Foods (a picture of the latter was posted
here). The first is from 1972.
Historic Aerials
And this is 1980.
Historic Aerials
It looks like the buildings east of Seville Avenue, including the bank, survived the 1970s redevelopment. To bring things up-to-date, here's a current view. The bank was on the corner just below where Rubens Bakery & Tortilleria is marked near Madrid Court.
Google Maps