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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

What a beautiful building, ER. And it is clearly by the same architect--with even the same detailing--as The Towers (seven blocks west at 553 S St Andrews): http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10326

Ignoble end for a beautiful building: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-...nting-graffiti





P.S. Thank you GW for recommending Whitewashed Adobe. Apart from some serious reservations about Deverell's overall argument, and a few glaring gaps, I enjoyed it, especially the chapter on our river, its floods and eventual rather misbegotten control, particularly this passage:

"The nighttime 1825 flood came with such a terrifying roar that people dashed from their homes and ran into what hills they could find nearby. After this great flood, residents later remembered, the only thing that could be seen standing above the new downtown lake created by the floodwaters was a lone, giant sycamore tree." (pg 101)

It was, of course, El Aliso.