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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Musical program for a concert at the Hotel Alexandria, circa 1908.


ebay

To be honest, this column is pretty bad with all that bric-a-brac added above where the column should have already ended.
Do you think the client decided to raise the ceiling height and forgot to tell the architect?

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You might have a point about the ceiling height, er. There was a balcony/mezzanine on three sides above the lobby, and the ceiling would have been too low without
extending the columns. Maybe John Parkinson screwed up?:


Los Angeles To-day (Neuner Company, 1910) @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=12

The area at the far end of the lobby is different from the above photo:

Los Angeles California, The City and County (Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1913) @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=20

Later lobby:

LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059356.jpg

I guess this looks in the opposite direction than the previous three photos:

Staley's Views, Los Angeles 1914-1915 @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=15




Southern California: The Hotels and Resorts That Have Made its Fame (Norman Pierce Co., 1906) @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=20 and http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=21

Here's a larger version of a photo of the Alexandria's Grill Room aka Mission Indian Grill (designed by Joseph F. Sturdy, not Parkinson) . . .

Art Institute of Chicago -- http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cd...d/12282/rec/68

. . . which we saw on a menu in this post by 3940dxer: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5864

The dining room (undated):

LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/spnb01/00007082.jpg

Undated view of Gentlemen's Grill (er previously posted a postcard of this scene):

LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/spnb01/00007080.jpg

1906:

CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...2CBG91J4NR.jpg

1911:

Los Angeles, The Old and the New (J. E. Scott, 1911) @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=37

Were three stories added to the Alexandria that were later removed, or is the photo above not an actual photo? Anyway, compare with below.

1939 looking south on Spring at 5th (with some of the Citizens National Bank building; BTW, great bank posts, HossC!):

CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...3DA6RKQC7C.jpg

1939 or 40 looking NW across Spring:

CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...2FUR3K191H.jpg

1946:

CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...XYB2N6N355.jpg

1960s (?) postcard; does the bottom left panel show the same room as the Dining Room photo above?:

LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070228.jpg

A whole bunch of previous Alexandria posts:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4361 (lobby after 1936 renovation)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4368 (new mezzanine views)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4371 (first brick in contstruction)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4373 (postcards: 1910 Gentlemen's Grill and c. 1950s Lobby)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8333 (sealed-off wing)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10038 (color postcard of mezzanine and color photo of Palm Court stained glass)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10288 (early shot of Elks convention at Alexandria)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10569 (newer interior photos)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14951 (Houdini dinner)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19096 (Gentlemen's Writing Room postcard)

Wasn't the Alexandria's long-sealed-off wing being converted into a hotel? Is that still happening?
http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp...a-hotel-to-be/

http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/t...a4bcf887a.html