In each of the descriptions of the Darkroom I've seen, the building is made to sound as though it's a stand-alone building; it's hard to tell if Miller just did the facade or a more complete design. He did seem to make a specialty of these few blocks of Wilshire.... He is credited in one 1937
Times article with 5356, between the building at the sw corner of Detroit and the row of buildings that contains the Darkroom. Perhaps he actually did the entire southerly block from Detroit to Cloverdale over time. As for the northerly block, according to reports in the
Times, his design for a Union Bank branch at 5351 (nw corner Detroit) seems to have morphed between July and November 1937 into a Melody Lane...
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