A Silver Lake historic treasure — or 'a junky old gas station'?
LOS ANGELES - Some Angelenos hail it as a rare survivor from a bygone era, a slice of Silver Lake history.
Others deride it as a dilapidated gas station.
Now Los Angeles is weighing whether to make it a historic monument - a move that could complicate plans to build new apartments on Silver Lake Boulevard.
The debate over whether to preserve the Silver Lake Texaco Service Station is the latest and starkest example of the competing pressures to save the past and build for the future in Los Angeles. It has infuriated groups who urge the city to construct more housing, who question whether the cause of historic
