My other attempt to recreate a photo by William Eggleston, once again from Blind Spot issue #19. Taken at the same location in Los Angeles a few years later. And again, I got just about everything wrong. I had shot here a few years ago, and when I saw his photos I recognized the location, and wanted to go back to see what he saw. I think I'm posting just to get them out of my system, because the originals are SO much better. Unfortunately I've never found them reproduced on the web, only in the magazine. The gas station is now a car wash.
Kevin, at the risk of boring anyone else reading this to death, but just to be thorough, it's Highland & Willoughby. I just drove by there, and they've removed all the stars and other Texaco stuff. It's still a cool little building, but not really worth going out of your way to see. (p.s. Don't ever ask me for directions anywhere cause I'll only get you lost.)
It's in Hollywood, Kevin. La Brea & Willoughby, I think. It's a car wash now, but they might have retained some of the Texaco paraphernalia, because I think it was a historically protected site (although I could be wrong about that). Anyway it was a great old fashioned service station, the likes of which you don't see anymore, at least not in Hollywood.
Very well done -- I am a native of Orange, Ca..Where are you shooting these Taxaco images? I lust for any image or reference to my So.Cal. roots. Where is this? ... from a SO CAL wanderer...K
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