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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
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Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm
I can't be sure, but in the Peg O Los Angeles drawing, at the upper left, it looks like I'm seeing the same archway between the two wings of the current apartment building. Also, the depiction looks more like a typical hotel than the old watercolor. Could the apartments at 1500 have been part of the hotel at one time?
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I can see how you might have gotten the idea that the Grattan Gables Inn was being depicted, but the "Peg O' Los Angeles" column was a long-running feature in the Times--at least from 1917 to 1962. The illustration changed fairly often, at least until 1948, when it stayed the same all the way to '62. Here are a few samples... (as I do this, I'm thinking, this is really more ladylike than noir, but anyway, it's L.A....)
LAT Dec 9, 1917
LAT July 5, 1925
LAT July 25, 1927
LAT Nov 1, 1928
LAT Dec 19, 1934
LAT June 23, 1940
LAT Oct 19, 1947
It was the same from January 1948 to February 1962, when the column seems to have run out of ethyl...
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