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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
In each of the descriptions of the Darkroom I've seen, the building is made to sound as though it's a stand-alone building; it's hard to tell if Miller just did the facade or a more complete design. He did seem to make a specialty of these few blocks of Wilshire.... He is credited in one 1937 Times article with 5356, between the building at the sw corner of Detroit and the row of buildings that contains the Darkroom. Perhaps he actually did the entire southerly block from Detroit to Cloverdale over time. As for the northerly block, according to reports in the Times, his design for a Union Bank branch at 5351 (nw corner Detroit) seems to have morphed between July and November 1937 into a Melody Lane... |
The Darkroom looks to be just one shopfront in a larger building:
Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection, Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library
Hard to tell from gsv now with all the facia boards:
gsv
But the roof still gives it away:
google maps
Neat trick remodeling the building at the NE corner of of Wilshire and Cloverdale without disturbing the rooftop sign:
lapl
originally posted by godzilla
And thx for this. I love "special" doorways:
lapl
P.S. Miller did the building with the weird vertical at the sw corner of Wilshire & Detroit (or just the green one)? Hasn't the corner one come up on the thread before? I seem to remember it was a Kress.
Yes, here it is:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9819
Godzilla ID'ed it:
lapl
How I'd love to go down to the Miracle Mile some night with a crowbar and pry all the extraneous crap off it. How does anyone think all the cheap "cosmetic" junk looks better than decently maintained buildings?
I still prefer it to this though. Disney creeps me out.:
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