It's bound to happen now that we're nearing 1750 pages
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Thanks for your memories of the IBM Card Punch machines,
Earl Boebert, and to
Martin Pal for the IBM Christmas decorations.
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How many Tishman buildings were there? These are Julius Shulman's pictures of the one at 3325 Wilshire Boulevard, which is diagonally opposite the Texaco Building that I posted yesterday. It's
"Job 2268: Victor Gruen Associates, Tishman Building (Los Angeles, Calif.),1956".
NB. There's a lot of duplication and overlap in this set, so I've just picked a selection of images.
The first floor housed a branch of Citizen's National Bank, J Barth & Co (stock brokers), and Berliner's Cafe.
The building across the street was home to a Thrifty drug store and Frank & Joseph New York Hair Stylists. The Mona Lisa Restuarant is just out-of-shot. On the right of the foreground is the site of the Hellman mansion which
GW showed us earlier today. This image dates from two years after the demo picture and one year before the Texaco Building was constructed. One of the contact prints has a wider view, but it also has a couple of creases, some sticky tape residue and the corner missing.
Like the Texaco Building, this one also has a parking lot on Catalina Street.
Here's the entrance.
The shape motif continues inside.
You could access the bank from the lobby.
I don't know which tenant this office belonged to.
It looks like McCann-Erickson had their reception desk right next to the elevators.
The set contains several empty office pictures - I've just picked this one.
The last Shulman picture shows the building at night.
All from
Getty Research Institute
It's had a makeover at some point, but the building is still standing. Like the Texaco Building, there are "For Lease" signs on the offices.
GSV