Cyril Osterhoudt
Draft Card

 
See notes below
 
The Place of Employment listed on Cyril's 1942 draft card seems to read "Watts Radio + Washs Shop." The word between "Radio" and "Shop" is vague, but it is actually "Washer." There really were "Radio and Washer" shops, though a radio has little in common with a washing machine. The 1940 census has Cyril listed as the manager, and his wife Leona as the bookkeeper.
 
Ellen Leona Peer - wife of Cyril Osterhoudt

As for the address listed on the draft card, a 1941 Los Angeles directory has no entry for Watts Radio and Washer Shop. Today, the address 10311 Grandee no longer exists. The intersection at Grandee Avenue and 103rd Street is approximately one mile from the Osterhoudt residences at 8006 and 8019½ Crockett Blvd, listed on the draft card.


 
Watts City Directory 1928
10311 Grandee Ave was the site of the "Watts Advertiser" according to the 1928 advertisement shown above. It was the location of Cyril's radio and washer shop in 1942. In 1964 it opened as Studio Watts,  a "multiracial artist collective." It was demolished around 1982 and the site is now part of Alice Manor Apartments, a 60 unit low income apartment complex.

 
103 and Grandee, Los Angeles CA
103rd street and Grandee Avenue in 2023. Entrance to Alice Manor Apartments.
Former site of Watts Radio and Washer Shop.
 

 
NOTE: The address penciled in on the draft card, 1645 East 127th Street, cannot be located. The street ends in a cinderblock wall at address 1625 E. 127th. On the other side of the wall is a complex of apartment houses named "Whitfield Manor," which faces North Compton Avenue.