originally posted by
GaylordWilshire
If you look closely, you can make out the addition in front of the Hotel Westmoore. (circled in gray)
http://www.lapl.org/
This photograph is dated 1955...two years before it's demise.
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below: Gone (date unknown)
http://www.lapl.org/
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I've looked in vain for a street view. There must be one somewhere especially since the addition was built back in the 1920s.