As I 'drove' the googlemobile up Van Buren Place in Culver City I spotted the back of an archaic rooftop sign..my weakness
(that's the iconic Culver Hotel in the distance)
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noirish looking place..I can visualize a murder or two happening here.
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as I turned the corner I got a good view of the sign. -Hotel West End- never heard of it.
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The old Hotel West End looks much larger from the air. (upper left is the Culver Hotel...upper right is the old 'plantation-like' Selznick International building.
google aerial
below: The Hotel West End (then known as the Washington Hotel) is visible in this aerial from the 1920s.
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=38972
As you can see, Van Buren Place once continued to Washington Blvd. It doesn't any longer (now there's an abrupt turn that leads
it over to Irving Place)
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