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Old Posted Oct 19, 2014, 5:37 AM
ProphetM ProphetM is offline
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Originally Posted by FredH View Post

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/17395/rec/47


OK - Here I am confused. This has got to be an L.A. Times structure, but what is it exactly? The old building was blown up and this is not the new one.


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/17395/rec/47
That is the third Times building. It was built on the same site as the second building after that was blown up in 1910. It co-existed with the State Building for several years until the Times moved into their 4th and current home, and then it was torn down about 1938. There were a series of posts relating to the building this summer. The remains of the State Building were removed this year to turn that area into a park, and in the process they uncovered a two-story underground parking structure on the corner of 1st and Broadway, with a footprint matching the third Times building. The information our resident sleuths put together suggested very strongly that this parking structure was originally the basement and sub-basement of the third Times building. After the 1938 demolition this area was part of the front lawn of the State Building, so the structure was not seen again from outside until they were removing it this past summer.
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