[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Here's a rare look inside one of the rooms in the old Wilcox Hotel in Hollywood. (Sept. 4, 1942)



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I believe the three buddies are in the military because, unless I'm mistaken, their hats are on top of the credenza.

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Here's a closer look. (there's one of their hats)



They're drinking 7-UP and, what looks like, some kind of whiskey.


The Wilcox Hotel around the time of their visit.


historicconsultants

As you can see, the hotel entrance is actually on Selma and not Wilcox.

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Just because: Here's a close-up of the Wilcox Hotel as seen in the Hollywood Diorama that toured the country from 1946-48 to give people an idea of what the city of Hollywood looked like. (I've mentioned it on NLA before.)

AprilClemmer

There are photos of the diorama at this LINK.


FYI: The Hotel Wilcox building is still there as the Mama Shelter. (The art-deco Hollywood Post Office is across the street.) In 2015 Mama Shelter opened, a "hip hotel, restaurant and bar destination in Hollywood which [...] includes 70 hotel rooms which start around $150 each and include amenities like iMac computers in every room and fun, youthful décor (designed by Philippe Starck) and things like message boards above the fireplace and Hollywood-centric movie scripts included in guest rooms. The ground floor includes a bar, full-service restaurant (with food by Benjamin Bailly) and a coffee shop selling Intelligentsia products. The rooftop features another restaurant/bar as well as an outdoor gym." --LINK.


The area is rapidly changing: The intersection of Selma and Wilcox has seen the opening of the Dream and the French-based Mama Shelter hotels (mentioned above) in the last few years. An under construction Thompson Hotel is slated to rise two doors south of the Mama Shelter on Wilcox. About a half-block to the north, on Wilcox near Hollywood Boulevard, the 134-room Whisky Hotel is in the works. In 2019 the City Council approved plans to build an eight-story hotel at Selma and Wilcox Avenues (the Selma Wilcox Hotel).

The Hollywood Citizen News building next door to Mama Shelter (Hotel Wilcox), a 1936 view:

CurbedLA

A more recent view:

MiramarCapital

The building is set to be transformed into restaurants and events space.