Hello, everyone!
Longtime lurker, first time poster here...I've spent about the last nine months reading through every post on this forum, averaging about four pages a day, and I have to say I am amazed by the breadth of knowledge you all have! I lived in L.A. for 9 years, and the ongoing discussion here has been tremendous in terms of both education and nostalgia for me.
Here and there, you guys have touched on the neighborhoods I called home - sometimes startlingly close, in fact. I lived in two different apartments in WeHo, the first of which essentially backed right up to the Normandy Towers on Poinsettia/Hampton -- detailed in
this postby
ethereal_reality, as well as elsewhere -- and the second of which appeared in a
Times article posted by
GaylordWilshire here. (Imagine my surprise to discover that Hamilton Burger was once arrested for "lewd behavior" in my building. Noirish indeed!)
Anyway, I was hoping I could direct the amazing NLA hive mind towards a building I've been curious about. Back in 2006 or 2007, I was working as a freelancer in the art deco Shane Building -- aka the Shane & Regar Store Building -- at 6650 Hollywood Blvd.
http://www.you-are-here.com/hollywood/hollywood.html
Evidently, it was built in 1929 and designed by Norton & Wallis, but I know next to nothing else about its history, and have been unsuccessful in finding any decent pictures of it that date back to L.A.'s good old
noirish past. Since you all are the incontrovertible experts at this, and doubtless know of far better resources to search than I, I was hoping someone here might be willing/able to give it a go!
Thanks, all -- and please keep up the excellent work!
Also, I sincerely hope I did not screw up any of the tags here.