Hello, Wow, that photo was in 1946. We had just moved to Long Beach and were living in a small trailer in a huge trailer court, just a mile away from the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and Anaheim Street. From this corner of Santa Fe/Anaheim intersection, it is the main street that the last Mickey Thompson Enterprises Shop/Retail/Warehouse Building was located, just about a block North. The photo was was probably taken from the rooftop of the corner business, the Coca Cola Bottling Plant. The basic Coca Cola Building is still there, but now has a new business. In those days, we could see the bottles moving on a track going to the next bottling station, then getting filled up. Part of the community involvement for the general public was a free Coke in a bottle for a sample. That was cool! OLD Jump up 77 years later and this is the same intersection that we walked to and in our hot rod/drag race days, drove to the local scrapyards and manufacturing company compounds. Now The star shows where the original 1946 photo was taken from, based on the sight angles in the original photo. The Spruce Goose moving was a big thing, but we missed it due to just arriving in Long Beach. It was a harried time period for our family after a long North to South California car trip in a 41 Buick fastback sedan, including two little brothers in the back seat. The intersection of the main street running from inland to the ocean in the Westside of Long Beach is Santa Fe Avenue. It is/was/still is the main Westside street. It still looks similar to those old days, only the cars are different. Some of the historic old industrial buildings are still there. One of the old steel companies owned by a friend’s dad had been on the block down Anaheim Street. The industrial steel company was the place where we purchased our sheet metal panels for the 1940 Willys Coupe interior firewall and thick plates later on for added traction weight over the rear wheels. That business is still there as of this year. Jnaki In front of the Long Beach city shoreline with the Villa Riviera Hotel on the beach. 1 mile flight West toward San Pedro for 26 seconds… ! Impressive ???
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