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Title
Van de Kamp's Drive-In with cars
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1945
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Its architect was Wayne McAllister, using Streamline Moderne style with neon trimmed rooflines and pylon.
Van de Kamp's Bakery and Coffee Shop with Drive-In service, located on the corner of Fletcher Drive and San Fernando Road in Atwater. Numerous cars are parked at the drive-in and other business and product signs are visible in the background: Knudsen's, Coca Cola and Carnation ice cream.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00059037
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Shops and stores-Bakeries; A-009-047 5x7
CARL0000062893
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/104726
Subject
Van de Kamp's Bakery
Knudsen Corporation
Coca Cola (Trademark)
Restaurants--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles)
Exoticism in architecture--California--Los Angeles
Drive-in restaurants--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles)
Bakeries--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Windmills--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles)
McAllister, Wayne,1907-2000
Atwater Village (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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