Walk A Crooked Mile - Clandestine Meeting
Braun is picked up at the airport and driven straight to a clandestine meeting at a local store.
Then … The meeting takes place in town. The first clue that led CitySleuth to the location was a glimpse of blurry ‘Grain & Feed Co.’ lettering on the side of a nearby store as the car drives by.
Then … They turn left and pull up outside the Lakeview Art Shoppe, a fictitious name but filmed at a real place across the street from the Grain & Feed store. The clue to that building is its blade sign, Pacific Finance Loans, a company that had several branches throughout California.
… and Now, here’s the same building today … on the corner of Friar Street and Vesper Ave in Van Nuys in Southern California; Pacific Finance Loans was at 14560 Friar Street. It made loans for a number of uses including furniture and this appears to be their furniture display space at the Van Nuys branch. The building dates back to 1946, now addressed as 14554 Friar. The business across the street back then was the Van Nuys Grain & and Feed Store at 14555 Friar Street.
Here are two 1948 newspaper ads confirming the location. (Apparently the newspaper typesetter suffered from dyslexia … Feed & Grain instead of Grain and Feed).
In a back room in the Art Shoppe Braun meets with members of the spy ring (including, in an early role, Raymond Burr on the left) and informs them that he is taking over operations now that Comrade Radchek has been eliminated.