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Tiki Ti
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Tiki Ti
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Tiki Ti
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I have heard that this place is really good (and really OLD)
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it totally has a feel like one of those hash houses that hapless suckers drop into in Film Noir from the 40's
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angels flight
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rocky and bullwinkle
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boyle heights
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this reminds me of what a run-down Sears store might have looked like around 1940 (not 2011)
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It was built in 1926 and was the main west coast headquarters for their mail-order business
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boyle heights
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the retail store looks like a Sears, Roebuck & Co. (circa 1960)
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wow...the most current Sears logo I could find was this rather *defiant* sign emblazened with their logo used from the mid-80's to mid-aughts
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This beauty is straight out of the sixties. I remember as a kid we would have our cars worked at Sears Auto garages that had these sign fonts
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boyle heights
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red car tracks (?) finally breaking free from their asphalt traps
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boyle heights
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detail from a classic southern california car wash
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the most minimalist of ways to advertise a *food market*
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P1060661
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(selective cropping of a billboard)
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exhaust(ed) parents and their kids
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"why don't you play my tape fool"....
