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Originally Posted by Martin Pal

GW, loved your pictures of Zamboanga and Chuckaluck, yours of the Singapore Spa!







It's my belief that the self-service station can be found in this aerial if you look under the word “Beverly.” In the close-up photos you can see 8 rows of gas pumps in each photo. In the aerial you can see what look to be those same eight rows of pumps. It’s set off the street which would also coincide with the street-level photos and the large “serve yourself” sign seen in the pictures, along with the pay station booth. From that location looking west (the night photo) you would also see the “Herbert’s” tower in the background and the Fairfax Theatre sign off to the right.

As for expecting “far more volume/sales than the solitary station,” that location with Gilmore Field, Gilmore Stadium, the Farmer’s Market, Fairfax Theater, Gilmore Drive-In and the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, surely would have provided that more than any other location I could think of in the city at the time!

Well-behaved Spaniels and Dalmatians are welcome!

"Brea-Fax" Market, circa 1948?


From a series on the Gilmore Self-Serve on Beverly.

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Aahhh. Spaghetti.
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"The Pan Pacific Auditorium is over there!"
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30psi - all the way around.
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Drive me to drink'in if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.


For those who know, was the glass-bottled motor oil available in only one viscosity, e.g., SAE 20 or 30?
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