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Originally Posted by FredH
I love pictures of the old central station E.R....as noirish as you can get.
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I too love the old central police station, as well as the whole area centered around Hill and First. We've seen this picture before, from 1939:
But now we can zoooooooooom:
Compare with how things looked after First Street was widened in 1941 (look at the building at left with no front wall...go back to the first image and you can see it was sheared off halfway through "TALLY"):
Also, the sidewalk in front of central has nearly doubled in width:
Photos from USC.
As for the building whose front was sheared off, it was the only sliver of property in the project zone between Hill and Main not owned by the city/county/state, or at least as of this 1936 map:
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