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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
Chuckaluck, I happened to see this related photograph (below) yesterday that shows a PE car turning the corner between the two buildings at the bottom of the photograph you posted! It's captioned:
Pacific Electric streetcar no. 5113 with a "Subway Terminal" destination sign passes through a curve at Van Deever Stationery in Hollywood in this undated photo. Inbound car from Van Nuys makes the left turn from Highland Avenue onto eastbound Santa Monica Blvd.
Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
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Thanks for the follow up. I was exploring the "Movielab" aspect of the intersection mentioned in another post 6823 Santa Monica Blvd.
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=11782 Never noticed the curved building and street, so I am guessing the change to "perpendicular" occurred long ago. I have heard that the area had many film vaults originally designed to handle unstable "nitrate" film.