An elegant little gas station, the El Camino Motor Service Station, opened at 6111 Hollywood Boulevard on the northwest corner of Gower in June 1921, the first of 3 such stations planned for Hollywood. It was owned by the Pacific Rubber Company.

In December 1922, it changed hands and became Triangle Super Service.

By June 1924 it was known as the Hollywood Super Service station. On February 10, 1925, the station welcomed a neighbor on the adjacent parcel to the west- Willard Barrows’ Barrows Motor Car Company Maxwell-Chrysler dealership.

 

The Chrysler Corporation Maxwells had been made since the early 1900s as Maxwell-Briscoe Co.. The Maxwell Motor Car Company was formed in 1913. Walter P. Chrysler, head of the Willys-Overland Motor Company, bought Maxwell in May 1921. In 1925 he formed the Chrysler Corporation and phased out the Maxwell that year.

The gala grand opening on February 11, 1925 featured the now-usual searchlights by Otto K. Olesen, an orchestra and film stars dropping by. The festivities were broadcast over KNX radio- which was based across the street in the Paul G. Hoffman Studebaker building.

In March 1927, Hollywood Super Service became a California Petroleum Corporation (Calpet) service station. It was still known as Hollywood Super Service. The building would change, but this location remained a gas station until it was demolished in 1981.

 

On July 1, 1926, the Greer Robbins Company became the Los Angeles distributor for Chrysler and took over the Hollywood dealership.

Chrysler introduced the lower-priced Plymouth brand in 1928.

In February 1936 the Paul Bobst Co. was officially appointed the Chrysler (and Plymouth) direct dealer for Hollywood at 6119. Greer Robbins Co. still operated the downtown Los Angeles flagship. Samuel Paul Bobst was previously a state distributor of Chrysler in Oklahoma. Race car driver Barney Oldfield was his brother-in-law.

 

In August 1951 Mel Alsbury took over the Bobst dealership. Mel Alsbury Sr. had been a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer in Salinas, Kansas before coming to Hollywood in 1937 where he was a salesman for, and later VP and general manager of, Paul Bobst Co. In May 1952 Alsbury expanded into two adjacent buildings to the West, at 6125 and 6145 Hollywood Boulevard. Both were early 1920s auto garage/auto showroom structures.

 

Mel Alsbury remained here through December 1963. In January 1964, the dealership at 6119 became known as Hollywood Chrysler-Plymouth and operated into the late 1960s.

The building was demolished in 1971.