[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

ethereal-- the building that looks like the Biltmore is the old Chamber of Commerce building. Here it is in 1968, getting ready to be torn down, the Occidental Center looming:

LAPL http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078700.jpg


And in better days--1939, 14 years from new:
LAPL http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics30/00064836.jpg


LAPL http://http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics25/00062255.jpg
Imagine a child, professional or not, being allowed to do this today--per the LAPL, this
is "...a young girl acrobat [standing] on her head on the roof of the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce building near the Los Angeles Examiner."

A view north from the roof of the Chamber of Commerce in 1932.


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Below: Another view north from the roof of the Chamber of Commerce Building in 1937.


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Below: Here is an undated view from the roof of the Chamber of Commerce Building.


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