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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Below: Looking east from the Crocker Mansion 1898.
I think this photograph is exceptional.
What is the huge building on the distant horizon?
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I just noticed what might be a cyclorama on the right hand side.
I recognize City Hall, but a couple of the other prominent buildings are a mystery to me.
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The big one on the right is the Bradbury, the prominent one center is the
Stimson Block. At the corner of Spring and Third, The Stimson Block was the first six-story building in Los Angeles, the first steel frame building in Los Angeles, and the last major example of commercial Richardsonian Romanesque in Los Angeles when it was unceremoniously demolished for a parking lot in July of 1963 -- and it's still a parking lot.