Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "An obscure new owner took over the failed Rambler dealership on Hollywood Boulevard in October 1957. It was the very first American outpost for a Japanese company nobody had ever heard of - Toyota Motor Corporation. Total nationwide sales for year one: 257 Toyopets and one Land Cruiser. Eric is a salesman at Hollywood Toyota, still in the same location. This being Hollywood, however, he calls himself an actor. "You know that episode when Seinfeld doubleparks? And that mob? Well, I led that mob." Eric has just finished a screenplay - "lots of cars, lots of action." If it's produced, he said, he'll feel like he's done something with his life."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc Sales personnel--California--Los Angeles Automobile industry and trade--California--Los Angeles Automobile dealers--California--Los Angeles Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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