This photo of the Wilcox Drug Store on the southwest corner of Selma and Wilcox Avenues in Hollywood was taken around 1942. It looks to me like it was a quintessential mid-century corner American drug store: Coca-Cola sign, sells liquor, newspaper stand, open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, barber shop next door, semaphore traffic signal out front. It was part of the Wilcox Hotel, so it was probably fairly busy all day long.

Here’s a shot of the whole building:

Miraculously, it’s still there. This image is from March 2018: