It's so much fun to see this area BEFORE the construction of Park La Brea (160 acres waiting for 4,000 apartments ).
If you look closely, you can see the Pan Pacific Auditorium at the extreme upper right (near the Gilmore Baseball Stadium).
Thanks for posting this 'Los Angeles'!
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below: Here is the '
after' to the above photograph. The Park La Brea Apartments have risen on that 160 acres.
The mid-century modern
CBS Television City (top right) has replaced the Gilmore Race Track & Gilmore Baseball Stadium.
The Pan Pacific Auditorium is out of view in this photo.
http://www.ilovelabut.com/2011/08/27...-park-la-brea/
I briefly lived in the apartment building that I've outlined in red. This is where paramedics hauled away dead tenants on a weekly basis (or so it seemed). You can see the apartment much better in the
before photograph.
The Lee Tower at the corner of Wilshire & Cochran (the dark monolith in the above photo) placed an eternal shadow over my old apartment building. It's no wonder the elderly tenants were 'checking out' on a weekly basis.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...ner-m4769.html
My old apartment on Cochran is conveniently missing from this 1958 illustration (it would be behind the twin palms at the right).
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