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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Shown above is Turn Halle, aka the Turn-Verein Germania Building, at
321 S. Main. Its cornerstone was laid on
October 22, 1893.
You can see it
here on the 1894 Sanborn Map at 319-21-23 S. Main.
In
1926 the building became home to the
Main Street Athletic Club, aka the
Main Street Gym.
This photo of the gym is undated, but I'd guess it was from the mid- to late-40s and certainly no later than February 3, 1951:
UCLA/Islandora/Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Balcony ad close-up:
February 5, 1951,
Los Angeles Times:
ProQuest via LAPL
This post-fire photo of the Main Street Gym looks in the opposite direction from the previous photo. The May 21, 1951,
demolition permit for 319-25 S. Main notes that the structure is 30% fire damaged:
00028200 at LA Public Library
On July 27, 1951, as the Turn-Verein Germania Building was being torn down, some workers opened the building's cornerstone
and then the memorabilia-filled iron box inside the cornerstone. I wonder if they found anything unusual in the box . . .
EXM-N-9265-005~1 at USC Digital Library
. . . like maybe a singing frog?
Screen Cap from
One Froggy Evening (Directed by Charles M. Jones, Warner Bros., 1955) at
dailymotion.com