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Originally Posted by FredH

1970 - Upper three stories of the Hotel Armondale, 748 South Flower Street, have been demolished as
work progresses concurrently on the Congress Hotel next to it. Blue 1960 Gas Company building prominent
in background sits across 8th Street.


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Ok, so, back to the Armondale for a moment. It too is a mystery. To me.

So we know it's the Armondale, but it's also the Hotel Congress. That is, it's two buildings; the south building is the Congress, and the north is the Armondale...



A postcard of the Hotel Congress -- note the name on the marquis along 8th --




Certainly looks like one building to me -- the fenestration, the facade details, the cornice --


The sure seem to be billing it as one building, so to speak, right?

And yet, it's also the...Armondale.



Yet in the late 60s it's gone back to being quite differentiated between the two structures (note too in FredH's images above how they tore down one and not the other):


huntington

That's kind of all I wanted to say on the matter...just something to occupy my mind other than this all-consuming State Building garage! As such, cool pictures:

1916:

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I don't know a whole hell of a lot about Japanese gardens, but...I mean, that one might be dead-on, but it sure seems to be set in against a "California Eucalyptus School"-typa painting. Interesting one too, by the looks of it. Where is that?