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Originally Posted by WS1911
The tower on the right, as several have already commented, is of LA High School. I graduated from LA High in the summer of 1967 and the earthquake occurred less than four years later. The building was demolished that year and my alma mater is forever gone. If the quake had occurred in 2014, I feel almost certain that the building would have been repaired, restored and made earthquake resistant. The 1970s was not a good time for historic preservation and there is not much to be said about the present school building.
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The Wiki article claims that preservation/repair efforts would have been feasible but were stymied by "interests" that apparently needed a new school building contract. Although no cites were given, it is true that several other brick high school buildings from the 1920s came through just fine, e.g. John Marshall, Hamilton, Uni, and perhaps a couple of others whose names escape me right now.