Thanks for the follow-up about the Southland Apt Hotel,
GW. I hadn't spotted it.
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By chance, this is the third Julius Shulman post in a row where the subject is attributed to Stiles Oliver Clements. It's
"Job 237: Stiles Oliver Clements, Ross Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1948".
Getty Research Institute
My searches for "Ross Building", "Phil's Bar B Q" and "O L Kramer" all came to nothing, and I thought I might have to post it as a mystery location. My only clue was what appears to be a three digit street number on the door. After a quick search of the downtown area at 45 degrees, I found the building on the corner of E 8th and San Julian Streets. The first floor has been altered a little, but the upper floors look remarkably unchanged.
GSV
I couldn't find a new building permit, but there is a 1948 permit for the neon sign on Phil's Bar B Q. Returning to Google with an address of 536 E 8th Street, I found that this was the downtown location of Gorky's Cafe and Russian Brewery in the '80s and early-90s. A couple of LA Times articles from 1992 give a bit of history, and tell of the financial problems at the restaurant - see
here and
here. A third article from 1993 reports on the closure of Gorky's - see
here. Here's an undated photo of Gorky's I found at LA Magazine.
www.lamag.com
Gorky's may have closed over 20 years ago, but the neon sign is still there.
GSV