The Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD) says the Chapman Park Hotel was demolished in 1967. Another page at PCAD references an LA Times article from 07/09/1967 - the article is called "Bowing out--demolition work on the Chapman Park Hotel". Maybe someone with an LAT subscription can dig it out.

IMDb.com lists the Chapman Park Hotel as a filming location for a 1966 episode of 'The Fugitive' called 'Death Is the Door Prize'. I haven't seen the episode, but it might be worth checking out as it's only a year before the demolition date quoted on PCAD. The northern end of the block was just a parking lot in 1972, with the Equitable Plaza at the southern end.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Aerial1972.jpg
Historic Aerials

An interesting detail of the Chapman Park Hotel story...from the Times, Oct 5, 1967


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-q...736%2520AM.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6...2520AM.bmp.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u...757%2520AM.jpg:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C...2/mural3-2.jpg


Photo from and more on Alfredo Ramos Martinez here: http://www.alfredoramosmartinez.com/...hronology.html

The year started off looking good for the Chapman Park Hotel...from the Times, Jan 9, 1967:


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...2520AM.bmp.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-S...itadbottom.jpg

Chapman Park Hotel
 

in 2004:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...70925%2BAM.jpg
Paramount


It looks like it stayed a parking lot until the current building went up circa 2005-6. So actually the Chapman Park Hotel had a pretty good run, all things considered. 42 years is longer than the parking lot that replaced it got.

2014:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x...74022%2BAM.jpg
gsv

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/TCL4AW.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=141&v=-qxC7j0YGP4


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/3Dqfn7.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=141&v=-qxC7j0YGP4


Directly behind the 'Secret Harbor'(?) awning is the Wilshire Brown Derby.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/GEqN5U.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=141&v=-qxC7j0YGP4


The 'fugitive' first views the Chapman Park Hotel from a bus window.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/05peuP.jpg


Here is a nice view of the front gate on Wilshire Blvd.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/KvU803.jpg


..just inside the gate. (note the sign for the west bungalows)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/nf1P2t.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/u31H4m.jpg


..a side view of one of the bungalows.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/XBaBXf.jpg


'mystery' building in the distance.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/Mjd0Km.jpg


..looking toward the main building, with bungalows lined up on both sides.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/Et8ps4.png


..a brief glimpse of the rooftop sign.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/p9zRBP.jpg


..a side gate on Alexandria Ave. (that's the Gaylord in the distance)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/NXoM7i.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/dL1HYV.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/SWKTDL.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=141&v=-qxC7j0YGP4


sans title
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/yuZjbE.jpg


..two views of the Chapman Park hotel pool.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/l8yAug.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/dGJYIO.jpg
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'mystery' building

At one point in the film, a building in the same general vicinity is visited.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...903/YZySAf.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/CLGcnb.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/eLyVj5.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/daxUQ0.jpg


..in this view you get a quick glimpse of an ornate canopy over the entrance. (upper right corner)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/njlv1L.jpg

You can view the entire episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=141&v=-qxC7j0YGP4

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Great screengrabs, e_r. I didn't expect the Chapman Park Hotel to feature so prominently.

The picture below is from post #7101. A photo of a 1939 fire at the Chateau La Martine appears in e_r's post #21141.

Chapman Park Hotel
 

Great coverage e_r. I'm glad it was so nicely documented. Looking at your screenshots one really feels like one's visited the grounds

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...70716%2BPM.jpg
nowandthen
(more pix at the link)

The pool area, next to the main building, was to have new bungalows built for the 'modernized' version of the Chapman Park Hotel.

P.S.

Thanks, that was fun.

Wilshire signage:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...11147%2BAM.jpg
youtube

The place looked great. Hard to believe it was rubble a short time later.

I've just found this aerial view from 1968 which shows the Equitable Plaza at about eight floors high. The Chateau La Martine is roughly in the middle on the left.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
Detail of picture in USC Digital Library

It looks like the two-story building on the 6th Street side of the block survived slightly longer than the main Chapman Park Hotel building and bungalows. I'm pretty sure this is the building seen in e_r's picture below. The 3506 address on Ed's Tailoring would be right for this location. There seem to be plenty of pictures available showing the north side of the 3500 block of 6th Street (and deservedly so), but I'm finding views of the south side elusive.

Chapman Park Hotel and Buildings
 

LAPL has a couple of 1974 views showing the parking (somewhat) within the footprint of the Chapman Park Hotel's main building:

The Chapman Park Studio Building is across W 6th:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-E...21656%2BPM.jpg
lapl

The 1929 Chapman Park Market Building diagonally across the intersection of W 6th and Alexandra from the former site of the Chapman Park Hotel. The DuBarry, at 3471 W 5th, is in the distance:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...21854%2BPM.jpg
lapl

I wish I could find a demo photo.

The 1929 DuBarry is by S. Charles Lee:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...24447%2BPM.jpg

With a great neon sign:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h...24623%2BPM.jpg

last two pix: hereforadventure

[QUOTE=tovangar2;6991539]Great coverage e_r. I'm glad it was so nicely documented. Looking at your screenshots one really feels like one's visited the grounds

The landscape here is by Kathrerine Bashford and Fred Barlow, Jr. Too bad it's gone, AND the wonderful Ramos Martinez mural. Bashford and Barlow worked on another project that had a Martinez mural, the Davidson Residence in Palm Springs, known as the "Ship of the Desert." The architects were Erle Webster and Adrian Wilson, with interiors by Honor Easton (she got an AIA Award for them), mural by Martinez, color consulting by Millard Sheets.

Thank you for that info. I was really admiring the lush, mature landscaping in the ep. A beautiful environment.

[QUOTE=tovangar2;6986680]Thank you Wig-Wag and Ed Workman, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5...02837%2BAM.jpg
modelingthesp

Good account of the 1959 Lark-on-Lark collision here

Just to "clarify" directions, the point of collision is the Railroad West switch of Serrano. The locomotive is from the northbound Lark #75. It is headed just about compass due south, and had it stopped properly at the absolute signal, it would then proceed around the point of the mountain [ thru a tunnel, bypassed within 3-4 years] and regain compass north to continue on its SP Westbound journey. Got it? This will be on the midterm
Thanks for the newspaper articles

The Larks, still bravely singing, fly
 

:previous: LOL, I really am taking notes! I love this stuff.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...15011%2BPM.jpg
slo tribune

mystery location.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/yidkAb.jpg
old file / possibly ebay

I believe the sign on the large building at left says Mastin or Mastix Drugs.

It appears there are cars parked on the tracks...?
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Here's an enlarged detail of the sign.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/CCeQ6y.jpg

I get Mastin for sure.

Cheers,

Earl

Thanks to Chapman Park contributors. :previous: (Always wanted to attend a Hi Fi Show there!)



For more perspective: Chapman Park, deja vu.


http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/37/chapman21125.jpghttp://img266.imageshack.us/img266/37/chapman21125.jpg

See: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6522642&postcount=20666


http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA1MlgxNj...SxwFe/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA1MlgxNj...SxwFe/$_57.JPG

Since we're revisiting the Chapman I thought I'd repost this. (the color postcard gives you an overall view of the layout)

[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6991792]mystery location.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/yidkAb.jpg
old file / possibly ebay

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It appears there are cars parked on the tracks...?

Follow the overhead wires carefully. The wire over the near- apparently rusty- track veers to the pole on the other side of the street, and the bracket arm is only over the far track. This is the end of the line. Thus check your LARy-LATL map for the end [s] of the S route. You may need an assortment of years to see if the S line had been cut back

That icecream factory became a Foremost plant. The present day pix remind me that I have not been in that area for a coupla decades, so I don't know when it was razed

Ed Workman wrote:
"Follow the overhead wires. The wire over the near, apparently rusty, track veers to the pole on the other side of the street,
and the bracket arm is only over the far track. This is the end of the line."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/yidkAb.jpg



:previous: Thanks for the explanation Ed. I see what you're talking about.



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So was the Secret Harbor (shown in the screen-grab below) located in the corner building that once housed the Zephyr Room?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/GEqN5U.jpg