Long before flossin' and Slauson were famously rhymed in hip-hop, the car wash at Slauson Avenue and West Boulevard stood as a monument to L.A.'s long love affair with cars. Slauson Car Wash opened in 1950, when the future was bright, rolled on four wheels and was covered with chrome. Like other car washes in L.A., its architectural style borrowed streamlined forms from the industrial design (and particularly transportation design) of the post-WWII era, and even more than the drive-in or the... More »
