This pair of photos shows the National Automotive School that was located at 4006 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, in a large building topped with some very impressive signage (the building has not survived). The image above is circa 1926, and shows an excellent view of the front of the learning establishment which also housed a Court Drug Co. Store on its front corner. The street that passes by the site is filled with an interesting assortment of contemporary automobiles.



“Popular Mechanics” magazine, May 1933.

The photo below circa 1930 shows a future Doctor of Motors working on an unknown brand of a late-model straight eight engine, which we are hopeful our readers will be able to identify. Judging by its appearance it seems to have been used as a dedicated teaching tool. The school appears to have been established in the mid-teens and may have been related to another that used the same name and type of advertising in Cincinnati, Ohio. The photos are courtesy of the USC Libraries.