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Merle's Coffee Shop

Visual Materials

Merle's Coffee Shop

Description: Merle's Coffee Shop, located at MacArthur Blvd & Pacific Coast Highway in Corona del Mar, as it looked in the 1950s with no development around it.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1955
Call number: photCL SCE 05 - 54343
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