Still trying to figure out how much real estate the RTD temporary Depot #16 took up, I found five
more photos starting
here on Flickr:
The S Spring street entrance, showing the Parkinson building at No. 514:
Looking east with the 522 Club at 522 S Main in the distance. The then-new parking structure at 530 S Spring is on the right:
Looking west with the S Spring annex to the Alexandria Hotel in the background; 514 S Spring on the right:
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When they built the LATC theater they intruded on the countinghouse-end of the John Parkinson building. It lost it's southernmost vertical row of windows:
flickr, detail (via
e_r)
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1915 LA Herald article on the building of 514 S Spring by the Engstrum Company
(It took out the second location of Ralph's grocery. Geo A Ralph moved to this location when the first site was developed for the Hayward Hotel)