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It's A Beat-Up Little Eyesore, But It's OUR Beat-Up Little Eyesore
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It's kind of run down, a little ex-gas station turned into an auto repair shop. It's pretty nondescript and surrounded by cars and a chain link fence. But some people in the Silver Lake section of L.A. think it's a landmark to be preserved It was built in 1941 as a Texaco gas station, and now preservationists are battling people who think the land should be used for affordable housing. And it raises the question of what, exactly, constitutes a historic landmark, or architecture to be preserved. I think there are a lot of mid-century commercial buildings deserving of preservation, but an old gas station of the plain squat white-walls-on-steel-frame variety? Debatable, and they are debating it. (Los Angeles Times)
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