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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
The building is still there, on the southeast corner. It's now Long's Drug/CVS.
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I just had to satisfy my curiosity, so I drove to that intersection today. The Rexall Building has been massively remodeled and the eastern half of it looks like it was demolished for a two or three-story parking lot.
For some reason, I don't remember The Odyssey nightclub. What stands in its place is a 2-story strip mall with underground parking and a few spaces of surface parking, a building that I remember having been there for a long time now. It's very 80s-looking; probably went up in the late 80s/early 90s.
Afterwards I went to Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena and bought what I think is a really cool book, a reprint of "The WPA Guide to the City of Angels." It gives decades-old, outdated, but delicious information about the Los Angeles area from the WPA era.
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