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Cafe & Market

Route 66 & Essex Rd., Essex, CA
Phone: x

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The cafe, station and market in Essex dates back to the 1930s. Water wasn't plentiful in the desert and at places like Essex you had to pay for it at gas stations and cafes. Among other things the billboard sized sign on this building advertises 24 hour towing.

xNext door is the post office. The cafe and Post Office are located at the Route 66 and Essex Road intersection.

Just down the road a few hundred feet the Automobile Club of Southern California dug a well where travelers could get water for free. That well is just across the road from the Caltrans Essex Maintenance Station.

GPS: 34.731312, -115.249677

Photo(s): 2013

 

 

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