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Old Posted Jun 1, 2012, 10:19 PM
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A young man and his car.

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5043d__Porsche_356__4209968619_0a403e970a by MichaelRyerson, on Flickr

Jimmy cruising the boulevard in his 356 Speedster (not the Spyder) but what boulevard? I found a Cliff Swanson advertisment for a Frigidaire refrigerator freezer in newspaperarchive.com. It showed the store address as being 12123 Ventura Blvd in Studio City. That would follow as Jimmy was then renting a house from Nicco Romanos the maitre d' at Villa Capri (reportedly his favorite restaurant). The rental property was located at 14611 Sutton Street in Sherman Oaks which is just a couple of miles west of Cliff Swanson's store (and just a few blocks south of the gas station recently discussed here).

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James Dean's last residence by MichaelRyerson, on Flickr

Jimmy's house on Sutton Street.

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12123 Ventura Blvd by MichaelRyerson, on Flickr

The building survives albeit without Mr. Swanson who has, one imagines, since moved into larger quarters.
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