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Originally Posted by sopas ej
1940, Sunset and Holloway, West Hollywood.
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What a great photograph sopas_ej! This is my neck of the woods when I lived in Los Angeles.
The buildings at the extreme left are mostly still intact (albeit some 'modernization).
google street view
It looks as if 'Book Soup' has expanded...enveloping two storefronts in the same building.
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Just to the right of 'Book Soup' (see the photo above) is a mysterious passageway that leads to a business that seems straight out of the 1940s.
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It's described as such...
http://www.yelp.com/biz/mystery-pier...west-hollywood
http://www.yelp.com/biz/mystery-pier...west-hollywood
http://www.yelp.com/biz/mystery-pier...west-hollywood
The passageway described is on the left in the photo below.
It actually descends below a sort of 'bridge of sighs' that connects two of the buildings on Sunset Boulevard.
google street view
google street view
This is the type of place we would 'wax nostalgic' if it no longer existed.
For any of you in the L.A. area....go and visit the father and son proprietors.
It's been said that they know
everything about crime in Los Angeles!
(and everyone seems to agree that they're also
very friendly)
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It also reminds me of the book shop in The Big Sleep (minus Dorothy Malone).
The Big Sleep (1946)
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