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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
The Murrieta Block was on the west side of New High Street, the fourth building north of Temple Street.
It was constructed in 1887:
Here we're looking north up New High Street from City Hall, c. 1931. The Murrieta Block, now the Dante Hotel, is across from
the upper/north part of the U-shaped 1909 Post Office:
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/3897 |
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Katty-korner from the Marrieta/Dante Hotel was Schireson Bros.
Here's a clearer look from the 1932 photograph that
FW also posted.
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I thought I'd try to find out a bit more information about the Schireson Bros. My first search brought up an address in Simi Valley!?
http://www.losangeles.com/places/schireson-bros-inc
So I ventured out that way in the google-mobile and found a rather nondescript building shielded by trees.
...on the side it said 'Volutone'.
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Lo-and-behold, the name Volutone led me to a magazine article that included a photograph of the interior of the Schireson Bros. store in downtown Los Angeles. (shown below)
http://www.sdmmag.com/articles/88692...rs-in-business
"The Schireson Bros. evolved into what we know today as Volutone Distributing."
"Brothers Jack and Nathan opened the doors of the original Schireson Bros. on South Broadway Street in Los Angeles in 1902."
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