Thursday, March 2, 2023

Long ago in LA

 


8 comments:

  1. One of LA’s gasoline stations in 1938

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  2. Plane looks French. Not Sure Why or How it would be in L.A.

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  3. Here is a bit more on this gas station:

    https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/airplanes-used-to-get-you-to-pull-into.html

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  4. It's a Fokker F32 of which only ten were built. Fokker was one of the few makers that raked the windshields forward creating that odd angle. Take a close look behind the pumps and you can see the pusher engine and propeller.
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  5. The F-32's were grounded and this one was used to make a gas station by Bob Spencer - you can read about the gas station at: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/bobs-air-mail-service-station-a-man-a-plan-and-a-really-big-fokker.70880/

    Lots of additional pictures, including some down in the comments sections.

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  6. Also the Fokker F-32 were built in America (east cost somewhere, they had at least two factories) by an American subsidiary of the Dutch Fokker company.

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