C J Walker

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Where the Past Is a Gas : The history and effect of the motorcar--and our love-hate relationship with it--are on full display at the new Petersen Automotive Museum. Here, no detail is too small or too trivial.

July 26, 1994 | Paul Dean, Times Staff Writer

A cluster of dead, dried flies at the Petersen Automotive Museum will be allowed to rest in peace. They were brought in a box from Beverly Hills by a museum sponsor who insisted that no replica of Culver City's old Dog Cafe diner would be complete without bugs belly-up on the window sill. That galvanized steel bucket at the antique Richfield gas station? It wasn't for washing windshields.

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