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All images by Allan Grant
Source: LIFE Archive
Muller Bros Car Wash, 1951
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I would not have liked to be “Miss Lube Rack!”
Ah, Miss Polish Job, I wish I could have witnessed how she earned that title.
The guy on his knees on her left seems to be holding his polish brush to show us how.
Those people need to smile more. They all look so unhappy to be there.
Looks like they kept the local sign shop busy.
All hand lettered.
Some girls are pretty but not hot.
http://www.hollywoodheritage.org/newsarchive/summer01/foundations.html
Some info on the Muller service station and the two brothers pictured above.
“..pretty but not hot.”
Haha, ask any modern day woman if she could do better with nothing but fifties-era technology at her disposal. Today there’s an awful lot more smoke and mirrors involved when it comes to attaining “hot”.