I live in the same general neighborhood and have always wondered about those two buildings too. Most of the "old Brentwood" pictures focus on San Vicente Blvd. The few I've seen of the Brentwood Country Mart when it was new don't show those buildings on the Santa Monica side of 26th Street. I've often wondered if they weren't intended to be part of a larger complex.

I know that the Brentwood Art Center used to house both a grocery store and a hair dresser. If you go in the building, you can see where the different businesses used to be, as the floor goes up and down according to what was once a separate business. Moreover, in one room, the wall is lined with electric outlets, as it was where the hairdresser used to be.

The builder was W A Stratton, the architect J C Newsom. While the authors of the Arcadia book mention that Griswold was the contractor for the Ems, from what I can glean, Griswold was only the plastering contractor, as reference to Griswold vis-a-vis the Ems exists only in relation to his plastering work on the also-1905 Astoria Apts (about kitty-corner across the intersection of Third and Olive).

Delighted to see more mention of the Alhambra(s)! Something from the personal binders --
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5332/7...d431a7ae_c.jpg

Just to be correct, this is an image of the structure before it was moved onto those (forgive the technical term) rolly-things and northward toward the tunnel (and photographer). That they affixed a sign already printed in the past tense illuminates the greatness (or, you know, hubris) of the times.

when i was going to webster jrhs my bus would always drop kids off at this school for the kids who lived in this area.I always wondered why that sign was in the front of the building,i wonder when they tore it down,and how many schools were torn down because of the sylmar quake.My HS (University High..unihikid) got some damage to the auditorium ,gym,and cafeteria and all but the main building was torn down(the guys who tore down the aud went out of business because it took so long for them to knock it down).

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4784/kennedy1.jpgThe New York Times

Among the newly published Gary Winogrand photos from the 1960 Democratic convention is the one above, taken in the Biltmore's Crystal
Ballroom. Below, the ballroom in a slightly colorized vintage shot.

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/6...llroom945a.jpgPublic Art in L.A.


Among the other newly published Winogrand shots from the convention is this one of another hotel:

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9...ybevhilton.jpgThe New York Times


The rest of the Winogrand shots are here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...rand-look.html

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just great reminds me of the movie "The Best Man" starring Peter Fonda

http://imageshack.us/a/img836/19/daredevilsceneebay.jpgThere were a lot of characters who shot from above the Hill St tunnels, it would seem...we covered this a little bit in this post...
...those big funnel-looking things are emerging from the roof of the auditorium of the Mason Opera House, AKA Mason Theatre. Here's a later, similar shot by Hylen, before that whole block was demo'd for this.

You mention the tripartite building, AKA 205 S B'way, I'm sure plenty of people look at it and take it to be modern -- 207-11 S Bway is the Metropolitan Water Bldg, built 1905, and the structure facing Bway and Second, the three-part one, 201-205 S Bway/300 W 2nd is the California Bldg from 1911 (as is its neighbor to the northwest, 312 W 2nd)...sooooo is anything still inside still evident from its pre-WWI vintage?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7...cdc0cb34_z.jpg

New Here.
 

I have been lurking for about a month...not in a weird way...I think. I am laid up with a back injury and unable to work so I have been surfing the web looking for images from the 1920s to do my own "then and now" comparisons. I stumbled upon this site and this thread in particular.

I'm not from LA or even California. I have visited LA when my mother lived there and have always been fascinated with it's history.

This thread is fantastic and I've probably gone through every page...more than once.

I was intrigued by a post by GaylordWilshire from well over a year ago...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2937
...so I did a little investigating. I found the wall at the top of the "mysterious stairs" is at the corner of Hope Plaza and Hope ST.
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/1689/hopey.jpg
It's just my opinion, but it looks like it was at one time a modern open stairway and they decided to block it off because too many people thought it was an entrance to the parking garage.

I hope y'all don't mind me jumping in and you can tell me to get lost if I become too much of a bother.

So we're all familiar with the Old Central No 1, as seen in the image above and below:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5012/5...31dfbf79_z.jpgmine

It stands out in lots of images taken from the Hill near Court looking toward Broadway...largely because of its striking two-tone character:

http://americanfilmnoir.com/_wp_gene...f690c5d_05.jpgamericanfilmnoir

heavy rusticated stone at the bottom, and what appears to be stucco above. Which always kind of bugged me, so I did a little digging...

...and I was right, it was a solidly Romanesque building of all wrought stone. Here's an image from the Times in 1896, accompanying a blurb about the new jail.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/7...fe562d21_b.jpg

Here's a shot from the Los Angeles Herald, September 1908 (folk are gathered at the station to hear word of Captain Auble) --

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7073/6...b3f7947d_c.jpg

-- A bit about the jail: the front of the first floor was for the officers and detectives offices. The back of the first floor was all jail, a 10x30 corridor lined with 24 cells on either side. Attached was a receiving hospital, basically a white tiled room with a big skylight. The courts, judges chambers, witness and jury rooms, clerks offices and the like were on the second floor. There was a second floor jail area for the high-security inmates, a female ward (with special accommodations for insane female prisoners) and a juvie ward.

I was shocked that, in my investigations, I found that while I'd deduced the building to be Caukin & Haas (they famously of the City Hall and first Times building, etc.) it was in fact a Charles L. Strange. Strange was the City Superintendent of Buildings, and an architect, known for the red sandstone courthouse (not ours -- theirs), & much of Pasadena's Castle Green.

Love to know when it got modernized -- I would've assumed that the pointed parapet came down after the '49 ordinance but it was obviously gone when they shot Shockproof in '48. I'm guessing it's a late-30s remodel but more digging needs to be done...

The Ems Apartments - 1940 Census
 

Who was living at the Ems Apartments in 1940?

The files are large to you can read the details.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9...0037800347.jpg
1940 Census

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8...0378003481.jpg
1940 Census

Check out columns 28 & 29. They show the tenants occupation and where they worked. Very interesting.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1673/centraljail1.jpghttp://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6...ntraljail2.jpghttp://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1...ntraljail4.jpgLos Angeles Times, April 13, 1931

Old Central Station still had its full Romanesque façade in 1931, but, after years of being called obsolete, varmint-infested,
and dangerous, it was condemned by the Health Commission in 1930 but not totally abandoned for another 25 years. There
are dozens & dozens of articles in the Times pertaining to the station over its lifetime (1896-1955), many about its
inadequacies. Here's one:


http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/205...aljail1939.jpgLos Angeles Times, May 24, 1939


And yet it remained in use for another 16 years...

I could find no specific references to the change in the building's façade, such as if it might have been due to the 1933 Long
Beach earthquake, but your estimate of it occurring in the late '30s could easily be right, Beaudry. In May 1938 the
city's police budget included $50,000 for "improvements" to Central Station.


In the latter days...
http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/772/centraljail5.jpgLAPL

Homeowners Review Fall/Winter 1976
 

Last week I purchased an old photo album that has a lot of interesting old photos of Hollywood and Laurel Canyon, most about 100 years old. I'll be posting many of these in the weeks to come but there were a number of other goodies in the album including 3 issues of this periodical, called Homeowners Review. It's 6 pages long and will use up a lot of screen space but I found the photos and stories quite interesting. Actually, it's sort of like a print version of our very favorite discussion thread. ;)

If you check the credits on the bottom of Page 2 you'll see that the publishers thank (among others) Milt Larsen, Bruce Torrence, Rudy Vallee, and Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.

I have 2 more of these newsletters. If you would like to see them, let me know.

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http://dkse.net/david/HR_FW1976/HR_FW1976.2.jpg

http://dkse.net/david/HR_FW1976/HR_FW1976.3.jpg

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The Ghost of Berkeley Square
 

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1...sqredblock.jpgLos Angeles Department of City Planning


My history of Berkeley Square, which you can read online here, has attracted much new information since its completion last fall. And I have just discovered something curious: On its maps, the Los Angeles Department of City Planning has retained to this day delineation of the Square's central roadway (in line with West 22nd Street coming from the east) as well as the delineations of the street's 15 south-side lots. The lines remain unexplained to the casual observer; I have added the red square rectangle above to outline the Square's borders of Gramercy Place on the west, Western Avenue on the east, the outer edge of the community's south private service alley, and where the outer edge of the corresponding north alley (and north Square border) now lie under the 10 freeway.

Must have been a while ago. I moved to the neighborhood in 1994 and it has been the Art Center for as far back as I can remember.

Damn, that's good research. I was on the same track till I saw you beat me to it, and bless you for that. I still like playing the first several "beats" of LA Noire because they commence at Central No 1.

The story of Lincoln Heights jail...hell, that deserves its own Arcadia book, or website, or something.

It looks like Berkeley Square and St. James' Square lasted 20-25 years before they began to become less fashionable. Any idea why they lasted such a brief time and why Windsor Square/Hancock Park developed so quickly?

I think Brentwood was pretty much ranch land until the 30s. I've heard Beverly Hills was developed because so many of the lots in San Marino, Pasadena, Hancock Park, and Windsor Square had anti-Jewish covenants and even discouraged people in the film industry in general.

Having been away moving to Dallas, I've been offline for a while. I'm sitting here watching "The Turning Point" from 1952 when I recognize a favorite locale from this thread...
http://www.electricearl.com/af/turning-1.jpg
http://www.electricearl.com/af/turning-2.jpg
http://www.electricearl.com/af/turning-3.jpg

(From www.electricearl.com)

The page http://www.electricearl.com/af/index.html has a lot of similar stuff. And if this is already in the thread, let me know and I'll delete this. After 372 pages, it's hard to keep track. :)

Well, I'm not a sociologist, but from what I've read, there are many reasons for the decline of West Adams; as for Berkeley Square and St. James Park in particular, I'd say the main ones are more widespread affluence in the '20s, meaning the car (which allowed servants to live beyond the radius of the old Yellow Car system) and the desire for the affluent to have more space around their houses. Both Berkeley Square and St. James Park were very small individual enclaves of large houses surrounded by less glamorous neighborhoods, unlike many of the newer, more expansive districts of larger lots and houses. The population of Los Angeles more than doubled between 1920 and 1930, driving up property values and causing saavy property owners to sell at a profit and decamp to newer, roomier parts of town to the north and west (or to consistently fashionable Pasadena). The new owners often divided houses into apartments or replaced them with larger multi-unit buildings. The Depression held back maintenance on the aging housing stock, causing demolitions and replacements with higher-density units; the war years repeated the housing pressures of the '20s. When the Supreme Court struck down deed restrictions in 1948, white flight from West Adams really took off. The sociological history of West Adams is fascinating; there's even the story that the routing of the Santa Monica Freeway was moved south away from Windsor Square and Hancock Park (through declining neighborhoods including Berkeley Square) and deliberately designed with limited south-north access.

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4254/gramercy.jpgGoogle SV

The trend of large houses in once-affluent areas of central L.A. being subdivided into apartments or replaced with newer multi-unit
buildings continued into the '50s and beyond. This example is in the 1400 block of S. Gramercy Place.

Good analysis, GW. Makes perfect sense to me. Someone posting on one of these threads said that by the time the 10 was built in the '50s, the neighborhoods it uprooted had already declined. Thank God they didn't route it farther north than they did.

I always overlook the 1952 "The Turning Point" because I've yet to see it.
Thanks for refreshing my memory Notinkeys. Pretty cool stuff. :)

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I really enjoyed looking through the "Homeowner's Review" David. It's amazing what can be gleaned from these obscure periodicals.

originally posted by 3940dxer.
http://imageshack.us/a/img718/2923/aaanewsletter.jpg
Fall/Winter 1976

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Found on ebay.

http://imageshack.us/a/img842/3497/a...rplacehuge.jpg

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http://imageshack.us/a/img151/8608/aafreudenberg.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img151/926/aafreudenberg1r.jpg


and today.....my how the trees have grown!!

http://imageshack.us/a/img542/6217/a...y2878edgeh.jpg
google street view

:previous:

e_r: Have I ever told you that I love your ebay snapshot discoveries? Shots of old houses, especially when they can found still standing, are great. Over coffee this morning I poked around to see who lived at 2878 Edgehill.... Addie B and Helen C Freudenberg (sisters?) were living there in 1942, apparently having moved from 1321 W. 57th St. By 1956, Henry Kwok had moved into 2878 Edgehill.

I love this area of West Adams/Jefferson Park, a little corner of irregular streets among the L.A. grid (2878 has an odd triangular lot)--plenty of great noirish stucco bungalows mixed with a few earlier Craftsmans. When you mentioned Edgehill, I was reminded of the house below at Montclair & Edgehill, which I'd run across a while ago. It's on the older, north side of Montclair, developed before the '20s; south of Montclair was open land until the '20s, when stucco bungalows like 2878 Edgehill began to go up there.

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/3...airedghill.jpgGoogleSV

Complete with shotgun street sign....

Looks like the Doheny Mansion.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AbImehj4Li...ionExt-Yes.jpg

http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archive...ny_mansion.gif USC

http://www.laokay.com/lathumb/laphoto/DohenyMansion.jpg LAOK

http://www.dohenymansion.org/images/scroll2_01.jpg The Doheny Mansion

Orchard Gables Reborn!
 

Looks like restoration work is nearly complete on Orchard Gables, one of the oldest remaining structures in Hollywood. It was built in 1904 and sits on the southwest corner of Wilcox and Fountain. Here's how it looked this morning:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...s1280/OG-3.JPG
[source: me]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-L...s1280/OG-4.JPG
[source: me again]

Before restoration it was in a state of severe disrepair, and served most recently as Hollywood's scariest convalescent home. Here's how it looked before restoration began:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...s1024/OG-5.jpg
[source: Park La Brea News Beverly Press]

Naturally it looked best in its original incarnation, sitting on an expansive property with adjoining orchards in the heart of old Hollywood.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_.../s922/OG-1.jpg
[source: artandsoulcenter.org]

To these eyes, the rear of the house was even more lovely than the front:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j.../s895/OG-2.jpg
[source: artandsoulcenter.org]

Here's a nice little article on the history of Orchard Gables (and don't miss the lone response at the end of the article which corrects some misinformation):

Old Hollywood Home Gets New Lease on Life

PS - David, I too greatly enjoyed the "Homeowner's Review" that you posted. Fascinating stuff!

:previous: Simply stunning renovation. I wasn't even aware of Orchard Gables before your post Handsome_Stranger. That tells me there must be hundreds, if not thousands, of fascinating places I have yet to discover in the L.A. area.

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That's a beautiful bungalow at Montclair and Edgehill G_W. I also like the disjointed stairs leading up to the house.

I was watching the classic film noir Edge of Doom (1950) this evening streaming on Netflix. I just had to pause at this scene and capture a still:

http://i44.tinypic.com/346nuis.jpg

I hadn't noticed the date on this shot before, Beaudry. If the LAPL is correct in dating it September 1936, the remodeling took place before then.


And here are shots from 1946 and 1956--the latter being the station's last year standing.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...2520AM.bmp.jpgLAPLhttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...sta1956796.jpgLAPL


A shot dated 1929:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-w...police1929.jpgUSCDL

And another from about that time--a great shot reminiscent of The Untouchables...
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL


West First Street was widened around the time of Central Station's facelift:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...iceusccrop.jpgUSCDLhttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...licewidest.jpgUSCDL

I liked this screen-grab from 'Edge of Doom' fhammon. I hope you don't mind that I lightened it a bit.

http://imageshack.us/a/img205/5968/aaedgeofdoom.jpg

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Here is an intriguing postcard of Lookout Mountain...the postmark is 1914*.
Two men are standing on their own little 'summit' while the 'Lookout Mountain Inn' is off in the distance.

http://imageshack.us/a/img100/4212/aalookoutmtn1914.jpg
postcard/ebay

above: The next thing that caught my eye was 'Home Office: 1103 Story Building'. Why is this address on a Lookout Mtn. postcard?
(I am going to go back and try to find the reverse side of the pc...perhaps there's an explanation on the back).



below: The address led me to the Walter P. Story Building on the southeast corner of 6th & Broadway (photo dated 1930).

http://imageshack.us/a/img20/591/aal...liampstory.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...ner-m3353.html

above: The Story Building, at 11 stories, is as high as any building can go in 1908 (year of it's construction).
Notice that the 'Home Office' on the postcard is on the top floor (suite #1103) of this marvelous building.



below: Details of the W.P. Story Building show 'zigzag' art deco ornament.
This makes me think the building had undergone a remodeling sometime in the distant past.
(1908 is way too early for art deco...and the decoration doesn't seem organic enough to be art nouveau, an earlier art movement)

Notice the 'Stop' and 'Slow' brass lettering embedded in the sidewalk/driveway.

http://imageshack.us/a/img225/6426/a...rybldggara.jpg
http://decoarchitecture.tumblr.com/p...alifornia-from



http://imageshack.us/a/img543/6599/a...rybldgg2wh.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0269/





http://imageshack.us/a/img854/6426/a...rybldggara.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0269/




http://imageshack.us/a/img31/6426/aa...rybldggara.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0269/





below: A contemporary look at the exquisitely decorated upper stories of the W.P. Story Building showing the eleventh floor
(home of suite #1103 that appears on the Lookout Mtn. postcard).


http://imageshack.us/a/img854/3698/a...rybldgisno.jpg
http://www.you-are-here.com/broadway/story.html



*While searching for additional information on the 1914 postcard, I discovered that it was originally posted on this thread by 3940dxer (David).
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6482

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Here's a comparison of the W.P. Story Building garage entrance.

yesterday: :)

http://imageshack.us/a/img225/6426/a...rybldggara.jpg





today: :(

http://imageshack.us/a/img84/8733/aa...terpstoryg.jpg
google street view

The only thing(s) recognizable are the brass 'Stop' and 'Slow' embedded in the driveway.

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:previous: Note the disgustingly dirty red awning over the garage entrance.


That awning encompasses the whole building and hides the entire 2nd floor. Who in the sam hell thought this was a good idea?

http://imageshack.us/a/img190/2002/a...rybldgn1ug.jpg
google street view

L.A. Renovation
 

Just had to comment on two things. First, in the 1st st. widening by Central Station I noticed the building that has "Tally Ho" painted on the side. Post widening, the building has been cut in half with just "Tal" left.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...iceusccrop.jpgUSCDLhttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...licewidest.jpgUSCDL

Next was the now and then of the garage opening. In the after, you can see the exquisite ornamentation on the sides is still there but you can't see it because they replaced the beautiful Deco gate with a roll up that covers the whole entrance. Not to mention the cheap red cover with arrows that advertises the Parking. Do you think that beautiful deco lettering is under that red cover? How did L.A.'s beauty fall to these cheap developers who feel it necessary to do this?

http://imageshack.us/a/img225/6426/a...rybldggara.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img84/8733/aa...terpstoryg.jpg
http://decoarchitecture.tumblr.com/p...alifornia-from -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- google steet view

:previous: I think it's quite possible that the art deco lettering is still there KevinW.
If I were in L.A. I'd go down there and try to peak behind that disgusting awning.

Back to the Red Car era
 

I have made few contributions lately after my Apr 9 visit to downtown and trying to capture what LA looks like today. I have enjoyed this site so much in the last month and a half and now up to page 150. I come here to the present day pages to see what is happening, to post, and share new stuff. I was visiting my Flickr account today searched on LA. I came across an account called "Metro Transportation Library and Archive". They have 100s of pix there if you're interested. I know at least one guy who joined here claimed to be quite an authority on the Red Car line. Here's one to get you started on Flickr and you can follow for more if you like. Does anyone happen to know if the Bus station here is the same one that became the "grand" and now former one at 6th and Los Angeles Street?http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6...93521f2e_b.jpg

023 - MTA 1515 San Pedro Line Main St. Sta. 19581206 AKW
Photographer: Alan Weeks From Flickr Account: Metro Transportation Library and Archive

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/9076/greyhound.jpgLAPL

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9480/greynow.jpgGoogleSV

The Greyhound station in your pic was supplanted by the 1965 terminal behind the PE Building--where the Red Cars are in your shot. I'm not sure if the building now on the northeast corner of 6th and Los Angeles is a remodeling of the old station or a new one--the window placement indicates that it might possibly be the same structure. (Also-- the satellite view shows a building with an open center that might have once been the bus lot.)


http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/2...yhoundsetc.jpgGoogleSV

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

i wonder why they moved greyhound to skid row? the first time i took the bus (97 or 98)my dad took me to 6th and main and he was so confussed that the station wasnt there,so we drove to hollywood and bought my ticket there.also on the 1965 greyhound station you can still see the ghost logo for greyhound,i noticed that when i was at coles a few months ago

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/2...yhoundsetc.jpg

Thanks for the comparison, Gaylord. It is now obvious that two of the Bus Depots which are no longer Bus Depots are across the street from each other. It seems the first depot which is today the same building on the right, and the 1965 Bus Depot which is now a "Mart" and also a huge parking garage, is in the same spot where the Red Cars were in 1958.

Looking west on Hollywood Blvd. toward Ivar Avenue & the Guaranty Building.


http://imageshack.us/a/img513/8485/a...erhollywoo.jpg
http://life.time.com/




I want to point out the building on the southeast corner of Hollywood & Ivar (circled in red).

http://imageshack.us/a/img827/8485/a...erhollywoo.jpg



Many people forget that nitty-gritty Hollywood Boulevard used to be a fairly high class shopping district.
Believe it or not, I. Magnin once had a store directly across from the Guaranty Building (as seen below).


http://imageshack.us/a/img580/9153/a...ywoodpatri.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=61625



below: A contemporary view of the building on the southeast corner of Hollywood & Ivar.

http://imageshack.us/a/img842/8939/a...llywoodiva.jpg
google street view



below: At first I thought this was an entirely new building, until I looked at this aerial that shows the center 'peaked' roof
still intact. The tacked on facade is simply a ruse....the I. Magnin era building is still there!

http://imageshack.us/a/img442/8485/a...erhollywoo.jpg
google aerial






below: There is another impressive building just east of the I. Magnin Store.

http://imageshack.us/a/img35/9153/aa...ywoodpatri.jpg



This once dignified building still stands with mediocre venues. The entire second story is covered up and painted tan.

http://imageshack.us/a/img718/3851/a...ighborbldg.jpg
google street view


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Now lets venture past Ivar Avenue to the building with the 'Schwabs' advertisement.

http://imageshack.us/a/img109/8485/a...erhollywoo.jpg


I wasn't aware of a Schwab's on Hollywood Blvd.
The iconic Schwab's Drug Store was located on the southeast corner of Sunset Blvd and Crescent Heights.

Well it turns out this Schwabs on Hollywood Boulevard was a fine men's store.

http://imageshack.us/a/img18/6752/aaimagninschwabs.jpg
advertisement


The ornate facade was covered up by stucco as early as the late 1930s or early 40s.
Only recently has the once elaborate facade been restored to it's original splendor.


http://imageshack.us/a/img442/8192/a...nschwabs1b.jpg
google street view





http://imageshack.us/a/img442/2287/a...nschwabs1a.jpg
google street view


....and that ends my examination of the area around Hollywood Boulevard and Ivar Avenue.

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i was about to say schwabs right next to what looks like a thriftys? great post though.

I believe that is a Thrifty's on the southwest corner of Hollywood Blvd. & Ivar Ave unihikid. Good eye.

Just want to mention that the "modern" awnings and coverings were recently taken down - like last week!

:previous:

Quick--somebody get down there with a camera. David?

According to the PCAD, in 1934, "Stiles O. Clements added a Streamlined Moderne entrance to the parking garage" to the Story building. Well, Zigzag Moderne and Streamline Moderne are two different things, but now we have the architect of the remodeling, and it turns out that he was (famously) associated with the Story Building's original design firm, Morgan & Walls. They designed the W.P. Story Building we have today, but apparently they also designed for Mr. Story this one-story predecessor on the site:

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5...rdonestory.jpg

The LAPL's caption: "Southeast corner of Broadway and 6th in 1910. This corner was occupied by a saloon as late as 1908. This was the later site of the Walter P. Story building."

The PCAD's description: "Nelson Story retained Los Angeles, CA, architects Octavius Morgan, Sr., and John A. Walls to design a one-story building at 6th Street between Spring Street and Broadway in 1900. Morgan and Walls subsequently designed [a] ten-story building for Nelson and W.P. Story for the same site."

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A then-and-now of the Story's front door...


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My first thought exactly! Hopefully they aren't planning to cover it up again, and will do any needed restoration, but you never know.

I'll do it some day this week, hope it remains exposed for at least a few more days!