I wish more gas stations looked like this at night these days—they’d be much more appealing to visit. This Gilmore outlet at the corner of Beverly Blvd and Fairfax Ave was photographed in 1935. And it’s a good thing someone thought to capture it as it only stood there from 1931 to 1936. And yes, this is the same Gilmore as the Gilmore Stadium, Gilmore Field, and Gilmore Drive-in on the other side of Fairfax were CBS Television City now stands.

On my various social media platforms, quite a few people had their own theories about where this particular gas station was. forgottenmadness_la on Instagram said: “It was at the southeast corner until Gilmore built a larger station on block south. This was then replaced by Herbert’s Drive-In, and is now Television City.”

I’m not sure which corner of Beverly and Fairfax the Gilmore gas station, but I assume it’s the southwest corner because today a Shell gas station now occupies that site. This image is from August 2022.