Let’s file this one at the top of the “They Sure Don’t Make ‘em Like That Anymore” pile. This is the Chapman Park Market built in the highly detailed Spanish Colonial Revival style popular at the time it opened, which was 1929. This drive-in market on 6th Street at Alexandria Ave was one of the first in the western U.S. designed for the automobile, which, in a way, makes it a sister to the Bullocks Wilshire department store, built the same year and the first of its kind designed for what was then referred to as “the carriage trade.” And even better it’s still around!
Announcement about the opening of the Chapman Park Drive-in market in the Evening Express, March 16, 1929
Let’s file this one at the top of the “They Sure Don’t Make ‘em Like That Anymore” pile. This is the Chapman Park Market built in the highly detailed Spanish Colonial Revival style popular at the time it opened, which was 1929. This drive-in market on 6th Street at Alexandria Ave was one of the first in the western U.S. designed for the automobile, which, in a way, makes it a sister to the Bullocks Wilshire department store, built the same year and the first of its kind designed for what was then referred to as “the carriage trade.” And even better it’s still around!
Amazing it’s still there! And it’s nice to see that people haven’t changed. One of the photos shows someone driving OUT of the Entrance.
Ha! I wondered if anyone would notice that. 10 points to you Mr P!
How on earth did they let it survive?
A true Los Angeles mystery.