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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Clarification please:
Sunset Lime Co.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/2396/rec/1
"Old Southern Pacific Railroad Station on Alameda Street near Commercial Street, Los Angeles"
So was the Sunset Lime building considered the actual depot... or was it just near the depot?
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The USC caption is incorrect,
e_r. The Sunset Lime Co. building in your photo is at 440 S. San Pedro Street.
Sunset Lime first appears there in the 1906 city directory, which also shows Montgomery and Mullin Lumber
on E. 5th St:
487980 at HDL
Below at left we see the same building's south and east sides (the building has a small LA LUMBER CO sign on top)
in this photo looking west on 5th Street (in the foreground) from near Towne in 1890. Please note the dark doorway
on the right side of the building's south wall:
P-010-1291-58 at Seaver Center
This undated photo shows ex-LA Police Chief John Skinner, apparently outside that same doorway, at the
"old San Pedro [sic] + Independence Depot at 5th and San Pedro":
P-034-077 at Seaver Center
The old Los Angeles and Independence RR depot burned in a fire on October 30, 1888," but the
LA Times article
the next day notes that " . . . the south end of the building, which was cut off by a partition, and filled with lime,
cement and other articles, was saved . . . ."
Here's the 1888 Sanborn, drawn before the fire. The ex-depot that burned, then occupied by the California Door Co.,
is above the "306"; the south end of the building is used for lime, cement, and plaster storage. There is also a lime
warehouse below the "306," but that's a different building. Just below it, 5th Street crosses San Pedro Street:
ProQuest via LAPL
On the 1906 Sanborn below, 440 S. San Pedro Street, then home to Sunset Lime, is marked with a red line. So, perhaps
the north end of that building is the south end of the old LAIRR depot. After the 1888 fire, the rump end of the depot may
have been expanded south and remodeled into the building Sunset Lime would occupy:
ProQuest via LAPL
Sunset Lime is last at 440 S. San Pedro in the 1913 city directory, and the building is missing from the
1914 Baist Map, so that makes sense.