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Originally Posted by HossC
The Pico-Figueroa branch at 1301 S Figueroa was part of a larger building. This view today would be looking straight at the entrance of the Convention Center. It's well worth zooming this picture for the details.
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Originally Posted by Noircitydame
I enjoyed this whole series very much HossC, and was especially glad to see the Pico & Figueroa branch picture – that’s the elusive Masonic Hall building I hadn’t been able to find an image of except this fuzzy sketch from the LA Times 9-29-1907 (Hudson & Munsell, architects).
The Masons leased the space to the bank starting 1-1-1921 (per LA Times 12-5-1920). |
Closeup of portion of 1924 photo looking north on Figueroa from Pico, showing NE corner of bank/masonic building;
the Studebaker roof signs in the wider view look familiar, so maybe we've seen this photo here before:
Huntington Digital Library --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/3492/rec/6
And all hail
Tetsu for finding the Max Linder Altadena movie house!
