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Description: Nixon's drive-thru restaurant - [with 4 variants]. This burger stand was owned and operated by Francis Donald Nixon, the young brother of President Richard M. Nixon. Donald Nixon also owned five other restaurants, including one in Whittier.
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Date: 8/11/1957
Call number: photCL SCE 06 - 71013
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