'mystery' locations.
Four 1960s negatives that were on eBay a few months ago.
#1
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#2
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#3
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#3a detail / looking past the Rodeo Bowl at the businesses down the street.
Best Buy Pies on the left (topped with a mid-century 'Saturn').....but the horizontal rectangular sign a bit further down the street is a mystery (_ _ UUM?)
On the right, there's an interesting 'noirish' sign, "The Stake Out, West" (red arrow). I'd say that was probably a neighborhood bar; wouldn't you?
And there's also a vertical "TOYS" sign visible with jabberwocky letters.
#4 (this one obviously has the best clue; you can clearly see an Eighth Street sign)
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#4a detail (there's a hotel down the street)
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#4b...and there's another hotel on the opposite side of the street.
detail
Here's the intersection today
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red arrow on the right = old 'hotel' sign
here the sign, close-up. (does that say "Olive" beneath "Hotel"?)
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Here is the hotel entrance we could see in the 1960s photograph (#4b)
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detail #4b
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But I still need some help on the other locations.
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