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Originally Posted by HossC
Here's the opposite view from 1955 with the Bridgo building roughly in the center. The hotel was the St Mark on the corner of Windward Avenue.
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Here's a reminder of a KCET article from a previous post. It details how the Bridgo building became The Gas House, a center for Venice's beatnik community, around 1958/59. It was torn down in 1962. The hotel survived a few years longer, but was gone by 1972. |
Wow, fantastic,
HossC - thanks!
I judged the year of my photos to be 1958-1960 based on two factors with the rest of the negatives in the same envelope:
One, my older brother (born 1960) is in none of the photos. Once he was born he was in pretty much
all of my parents' photos.
Two, my mom's cat Yuki (which she got in 1958)
is in the photos. And she's just a kitten.
The kitten aspect would
seem to date my photos to 1958. Maybe they were shot in '58, and the building became The Gas House in '59...