In the 1920s, when Highway 1 to Los Angeles came west on Garnet Avenue and turned north on Cass Street, Pacific Beach Service Station — at the northeast corner of Garnet and Cass — was sitting in the cat-bird seat. Frank McAllister poses in front of the station in this photo. The Pacific Beach sign over Cass Street is long gone, but locals might recognize the home at the left as Cafe 976. The corner station remained until about 1959, when it was replaced by Home Federal Savings, which became HomeFed Bank, which became Great Western, which became Washington Mutual, which became Chase Bank.
