Los Angeles magazine's website posted the pic above yesterday (see story
here). I think it might be possible that they've confused SHAFFER'S with SHAEFER'S, but for the moment I thought I'd revisit the intersection of Hollywood and Western.
LAPL
Among the shots we may or may not have seen here before is the one above (I
know we've seen this one--who could forget that Cadillac?) that shows the still-standing St Francis; below is an earlier view from farther east. The intersection is being redeveloped with some odd mixed-use buildings; the Rector at right in the shot below and the building at left have been replaced*.
LAPL
Another view of the Rector...
LAPL
...and a view of the building on the southwest corner of the intersection, which, "anchored" by a CVS, looks like it might have a chance to stay.
* Have we noticed before that the Starbucks building that stands on the Rector's site has mimicked the hotel's second-floor window pediments? (You don't suppose it's a truncated, drastically remodeled Rector, do you? I don't think so.) Seems odd that the Starbucks
architect designer would have used them to slyly hark back to what was torn down? Who knows.
GSV