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Originally Posted by tovangar2
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Park la Brea still claims to be the largest apartment complex west of the Mississippi. 160 acres and 4,255 apartments. Planned in 1939 and finished in 1952. The Park La Brea townhouses were designed by Leonard Schultz & Son (New York) with associate architect Earl T. Heitschmidt in 1941. The Towers were designed by Leonard Schultz Associates with consulting architects Stanton + Kaufmann in 1948. |
t2, here's a look at one of the lobbies.
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6s20350p/
and today
http://www.apartmentguide.com/apartm...-La-Brea/6669/
And here's the living room in one of the apartments, circa early 1950s (?)
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2k403216/
cigarette holding chickens bric-a-brac.
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