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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Here's your old stomping grounds odinthor. (magnificent use of tongue depressors*  )
 gsv
Check this old post out if you like
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31313
Looking especially lonely from the alley.
gsv
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It seems a bit tragic that all the building in my slide are gone. 
odinthor, do you remember the old hotel.....it's name perhaps?
It appears there was also a 'Federal Savings' in the hotel building.
hmmmmmm.....I just noticed; I believe the name of the hotel is on the green window (arched above the word hotel), but it's impossible to read.
& could the white 'deco' building behind the streetcar be a Sears store?
The sign on the side appears to be practically hidden, unless it was intended to be seen from the back......if there was parking in the back.
(or...maybe there was a space between the 'Sears' store and the Pep Boys) -in others words, I just don''t know why it would have been placed where it is.
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*back in 2012, I found another building that used tongue depressors.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9913
(I have an innate fear of tongue depressors)
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Thanks,
e_r! Many an hour I spent at Acres of Books from the late 50s when I was barely old enough to read until the place closed; and many are the books from there still on my bookshelves (in fact, I was just reading one an hour ago).
Man, I was doing all sorts of Photoshop tricks last night to try to read the hotel's name, which is in the window; I can barely make out the word HOTEL, which is in larger lettering than the "personal" name of the hotel just preceding it, and which I can't make out. I had no awareness of the hotel previously--if I thought about it at all in the olden days, it was probably just as being another flophouse in downtown LB.
To the right of Acres of Books was a narrow building which was at first a bank and then a photography shop; and immediately to the right of that was a very noir alley. To the left of Acres of Books, beyond a little parking lot, was a bar. I don't recall that one ever entered or exited Acres of Books in the back, though there was a door (delivery door, I'd guess). There was of course the front door, and midway there was a little door at the side, just inside of which was a cashier counter.
Back to the pic: In addition to the Sea[rs] sign (there was a big Sears store a few blocks down; this must have been some offshoot remote department of it), one can also make out a small "furn[iture]" sign; and further down is a big blade sign which I think says, in full, "LARS," which rings no bells with me.
Ah, tongue depressors! Just the mere mention of them brings back to me their wooden toothpick flavor. Yum...
By the way, just before the economic turndown, the city of LB and Cal State Long Beach had an ambitious plan to turn the whole block on which Acres of Books sits into some sort of collegiate arts community, retaining the AoB building, and erecting new structures to accompany it. This was eventually put on hold, and I'm unsure of the current status of the plan. It was an interesting plan, and would I think have been a good thing all the way around, as bringing some youthfulness and vitality to downtown LB.
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