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I was just reading that the Lugo house was the first location for the predecessor to Loyola Marymount University.

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/25/local/me-8148/3

The last vestige of Old Chinatown, a block of buildings between Sunset Boulevard and Los Angeles, Alameda and Aliso streets, was demolished in 1949 to make way for the Hollywood Freeway and a park.

Included in that cluster of 22 razed buildings was the home of Vicente Lugo, the first two-story residence on the plaza. He donated the house to the parish priest in the 1850s. The house became the first home of St. Vincent's College (now Loyola Marymount University) in 1865, named for Lugo's patron saint, Vincent de Paul, a 17th century French priest who founded the Vincentian Fathers.

Also, Jerry's Joynt, a fabled restaurant-bar with an ornately carved bar painted in gold, black and red, fell to the wrecking ball.