While I was looking for other pictures of the Wilshire Mobil station's pylon (see above), I came across this amazing set of photos of the Wilkip Apartments. Dated 1934, it clearly shows how far Wilshire Boulevard was lowered. On the right is Kip Street (I assume that Wilshire + Kip = Wilkip). The darker building on Kip Street is the Hotel Gotham, which appears in the City Directories at 975 Ingraham Street. There's a great postcard of the Hotel Gotham posted by
e_r in
post #10968.
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This shot is looking west along Wilshire. On the right, the building with the square tower is the Blasier Apartments at 641 St Paul Avenue. The top of the Good Samiritan can be seen in the distance.
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I hope there was an alternative entrance to the Wilkip Apartments during the grading work. The sign on the door does say that they have vacancies!
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The Wilkip Apartments were at 970 Wilshire Boulevard. That's very close to the Epstein Bros' Tailor Shop which
e_r showed us in
post #33573. From
my follow-up post, here's the area about five years before the pictures above. The Wilkip is directly above the words "REX ARMS", although the sign on the side shows its earlier name which was the Windsor Apartments. The Hotel Gotham is the white building in the top-left corner.
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Originally Posted by HossC
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Here's a more recent picture of the location which shows how much deeper the excavations went a couple of decades later! The corner of the Wilkip/Windsor would have been roughly where the bush just behind the railing now stands.
GSV