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Used buildings on the move....
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Originally Posted by HossC
Here's another view of the same incident. I wonder where the house ended up.
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Most of these Wilshire area homes were moved south to become apartment buildings during the 1950s.
Pictured below is one my father bought, had it cut into pieces and moved to Venice Blvd. It was converted into 3 or 4 apartments. The one at the left was also moved from the Wilshire area. I was a kid then but I still remember the stories of how difficult it could be to move one of these mansions. The moving was mostly done at night so traffic would not be affected. When they arrived at their new site you had to do a lot of reconstruction as the moving experience really tore up the insides. They are still strange to live in to some degree. What was a bedroom is now a living room. A former large closet is now a kitchen or bath.
The main reason they were moved was they were considered too nice to just destroy them and the price was relatively low.. We sold the last one in 1990.
GSV
Last edited by CityBoyDoug; Apr 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM.
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