Maddux Air Lines ticket office, 636 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1928. I love the very deco styling of the signage. Maddux Air Lines was an airline based in Southern California that operated in California, Arizona, and Mexico in the late 1920s. By 1930, it had been bought out by a larger airline, Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T)
Here is an advertisement from 1930:
Beyond stunning! Look at that sidewalk with the address, the airplane to the side of the sign, the lighting. Why aren’t there places or pictures like this anymore?
Here’s another shot, Martin, of the other side of the building with what looks like a shoe shine stand?
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Jean