Exterior view of the Sontag Drug Store, located at the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue, 1941

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Title	Exterior view of the Sontag Drug Store, located at the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue, 1941
Description	Photograph of an exterior view of the Sontag Drug Store, located at the northwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue, 1941. The Sontag Drug Store, designed by Anderson and Norstrom in the Art Deco style and completed in 1935, sits at center, its entrance just to the right of center. The building is light in color, with rounded corners, a tall chimney protruding from its right side, and darkly-colored awnings reading "AGFA Film" along the display windows that line its sides. A man stands on the concrete sidewalk to the left of a display rack reading "Today's Special" that sits in the entranceway, while another man walks from the left of the image toward the center. The foreground of the image shows the paved street and two automobiles in motion, with the front edge of a bus at the right side. Another automobile is parked at the left side of the image. A traffic light and a street light sit to the left of center, in front of the drug store; the street light bears the street signs for "Cloverdale" and "Wilshire". A bent street sign lower down on the street light reads "W[?] Take [?] Of [?] It's Com[?] Co[?]".; Legible signs on the building from left to right include: "Cut Rate Drugs", "Fountain Booths", "Sontag [Original] Cut Rate Drug Stores", and "Fountain Grill". Signs in the front windows read "Chicken A La King", "Tom Turkey", "Chicken Loaf", and "Today's Menu", "Fine Grain Developing", and "Price Sale".
Subject	Sontag Drugstore
Subject (adlf)	buildings
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Stores (1 of 2)
Subject (lcsh)	Retail trade Drugstores
Geographic subject (roadway)	Wilshire Boulevard & Cloverdale Avenue
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Geographic subject (manmade feature)	Sontag Cut Rate Drug Store
Geographic coordinates	-118.34528,34.06247; -118.34517,34.06229; -118.34527,34.0621; -118.34528,34.06247
Coverage date	1941
Architect	Anderson; Norstrom
Contributor	Foster & Kleiser
Photographer	Stagg, Richard
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1941
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	31016
Call number	CHS-31016
Identifying number	isla id: S-4595
Legacy record ID	chs-m1408; USC-0-1-1-1454
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-31016
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Archival file	chs_Volume27/CHS-31016.tiff

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