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I wonder if that crate was delivered by a horse drawn wagon, haha. Seems like it'd be hard to handle a crate like that at that time.

 

I read they were packed that way for export. Unsure if that is accurate.

 

Pete Robinson with his second Dragmaster car, a SBF powered Dragmaster Dart.

 

Hello,

Having lived in an area loaded with old speed shops, manufacturing industrial shops and buildings, one took for granted that they were all around us. Even as little as a neighborhood grocery store that went out of business, got a blink of a stare, but that was not big news in our area of the Westside of Long Beach from 1953 to 1998.

The above photo reminded me of our neighborhood grocery store that turned into one of the coolest hot rod/antique auto parts store for many years. We scoured the shop almost every time we needed a part for some reason.


The one thing that was a standout display was the old Ford coupe sitting on the rooftop sign facing the major cross street. Willow Street goes from the L.A. South Bay beaches all the way into the big OC and the Disneyland area. Willow Street is the end of Lion’s Dragstrip, if you were to not stop at the end of the dragstrip pavement and dirt road leading to the sand berm. If one continued to finally stop before a deadly chain across two, in the ground, traffic barrier poles.

That end of the dragstrip property that the white Pontiac ambulance usually took as the fastest way to get to the local big time hospital is Willow Street from here, East to the OC, and Sepulveda to the West.

Jnaki

We knew the area quite well and every time we came over the L.A. River and L.B. Freeway into our Westside neighborhood, the street turn off to our house was in front of the Ford Parts Obsolete store and parking area. We could not miss it and it was a mapping point when friends wanted to get to our house from Bixby Knolls or other parts of East Long Beach/Signal Hill/Lakewood areas.


The cool thing was, it became a car show every weekend in our neighborhood and that was good. Our house was about 4-5 blocks West (toward the L.A. / L.B. Harbors) from the Ford Parts Obsolete Store.