Posted Jan 17, 2013, 8:28 PM
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
The bump may just be a lane marker; there were some of these around L.A. that had raised letters reading "STOP" facing the traffic flow, presumably from before electric signals. As for the Southern California Telephone Building at 666 S La Brea... I wondered why a brick building that didn't look all that old would have been replaced by a Deco-ish structure, but these article explain what happened... (note the error in directionals)...
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Interesting that the Phone Company planned for substantial expansion. Wonder if eventual construction resulted in lengthy service interruptions. Of course at that time there were relatively few customers in the area and complaints to a monopoly probably fell on deaf ears.
Telegram to Mayor Shaw: "What happened to my party line. Stop. Now have no dial tone! Stop" 
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