Why the Carwash Is Worth Saving
Your Aug. 1 story on our Studio City carwash-coffeeshop corner quotes Ira Smedra, the world-be developer of the corner, as saying, “There are a lot of people in that area who have said they want me to get rid of that atrocity and build something nice.”
The aesthetics of the ‘50s are in the eye of the beholder, but Pat Galati’s gas station and carwash and Tiny Naylor’s coffee shop are part of our cultural heritage. In a few more years this corner will be as historic as a stagecoach stop, but unlike the stagecoach stop will still be functioning as useful businesses. We already have plenty of mini-malls in our area to be considered as cultural landmarks of the late 20th Century, if a mini-mall really is “something nice.”
ROSEMUND MILLER LAING
Studio City
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