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Originally Posted by tovangar2

Is this Madame Begon and her pretty property on Castelar (from e_r's post http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11733)?

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Sorry to belabor this but the Mme Begon story was a minor obsession with me a couple of years ago.

I found the photo of her store captioned:

"View of Castelar Street looking north from the corner of Ord Street, showing the Spanish (Mexican?) Market, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1909.

I know for a fact this was an adobe structure. The Parisian building appears to have wood sides.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/25398/rec/1


"A Store at the North West corner of Ord and North Broadway, Madame Begon, circa 1895."

http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c.../id/3656/rec/8