Complex sentence: Owned and operated the Ben Alexander Ford car dealership in the Highland Park neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, from c.1953 until his death in 1969; in the mid- 1950s also had Ben Alexander's Dream House Motel on Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood.
Split into simpler sentences: Owned and operated the Ben Alexander Ford car dealership in the Highland Park neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, from c.1953 until his death in 1969. In the mid- 1950s also had Ben Alexander's Dream House Motel on Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood.