| Frank McAllister strikes a pose
at the Pacific Beach Service Station, at the
northwest corner of Garnet and Cass, around
1925. The site of today's Chase Bank, the
corner was a choice spot in the 1920s, as the
only way to motor to Los Angeles was on
Highway 1, which traveled west on Garnet then
north on Cass to La Jolla and on up the coast.
Compare the Pacific Beach sign to the Broadway
sign on the streetcar link below. The gas
station is long gone, but the home at the left
is the very popular Cafe 976 at -- are you
ready? -- 976 Felspar.
Myself
and my collector friends would kill for
those gas pumps. We restore those old
suckers. The one's with the glass cylinders
on top are known as "visibles” -- Dave
Folck '67
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