[Retired_in_Texas]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I'm not sure of the chronology of the last two photographs R_I_T. To me, the last photograph definitely seems contemporary (recent).
But your question is a good one. I'll have to check the bridge out using Google-Street-View.

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Architect Irving Gill also designed the Torrance Pacific Electric Depot the same year as the bridge (1913).


http://www.pinterest.com/rebeckahrut...rrance-bridge/



Here's some history


http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...rrances-depot/




http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...rrances-depot/



below: The depot as it appeared in 1937. (where's the dome?)


http://www.pinterest.com/rebeckahrut...rrance-bridge/ via lapl




...very forlorn in the 1970s. (still no dome)

http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...rrances-depot/




Great news noirishers , the 101 year old depot has survived! -as a restaurant, with a dome.


http://www.depotrestaurant.com/home.html
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side-note

This is the article that brought my attention to Irving Gill's association with Torrance. (it's really interesting)
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...nce_utopia.php

entitled: The Rise and Fall of One Architect's Modern Torrance Utopia.

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Really neat to see the Dome back in place. The patina on it would lead one to believe it had been stored someplace in case it might be re-installed.

Irving Gill is aptly credited with creating the basis for what would later be known as Streamline Modern. Way ahead of his time much like Frank Lloyd Wright.