[andrea517]

Thanks Beaudry for the great map skills and research!

Originally Posted by Beaudry

More map craziness! (I'll let someone else speak to posting pix, as I go through this whole rigamarole that I'm certain is more complicated than it need be.) In any event:

Lots going on in 1906:


210 doesn't show up on my 1921 Baist's map, so we assume it's built soon after, according to your information. It's still there in 1951:



(and a close-up--)



...but the winds of change were a-blowin'. Two words: Parker Center.



Note the way the jail yard wraps around the top "arm" of Parker Center and continues straight toward Los Angeles St. As such, I'm guesstimating the footprint of the Paris Inn as



the blue shape, that is, once a parking lot, now a good part of it beneath the newly-constructed LAPD Metropolitan Detention Center No. 3772.