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Originally Posted by HossC
USC has this picture looking up 7th from Broadway which they date at 1921 (it may be slightly earlier). The domed Smith's Hotel stands where the Loew’s State Building is about to be built.
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According to cinematreasures.org, the Palace Theatre was at 318 W 7th, so the Europa Italian Restaurant must've been just to the left.
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In 1910, the year of e-r's postcard, the Hotel Bonnie Brae occupied the corner apparently undergoing a change in ownership (with a name-change) in the years leading up to 1921 when the Loew's building appears on the Baist survey. The Palace Theater at 318 is actually on the west side of a narrow alleyway (St. Vincent's Place?) which runs between it and 314 on the eastside (it is very hard to see the curb-cut which serves this alley). This leaves the Europa the second business to the east of the Palace Theater and the alley. The alley north of 7th Street is annotated as St. Vincent's Place.