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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Let's take a closer look at this astonishing photograph.
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I think the photo shows the Roma Hotel on Alameda, not the one on North Los Angeles.
In the photo, from right to left, we have what looks like a three-story brick building, a scattering of small, one-story buildings, and then
the Roma. We also see these on the map below. Additionally, notice where the curb is directly behind the guy in the carriage? If you
follow the line of that curb down toward the Roma, it appears that the Roma's balcony sticks out into the street, like it does here at
the lower left:
1894 Sanborn Map @
Library of Congress
[Note: Alameda is at the bottom, Upper Main (now North Spring) is at the top, and Ord runs along the left edge.]
Here are Alameda, Upper Main, and Ord (at the time called Walters) in 1888, with the Old Roma Hotel at 611 N. Alameda, again with the
balcony sticking out into the street but with no three-story building, brick or otherwise, to its north:
1888 Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LA Public Library
For whatever reason, the 1888 Sanborn shows 108-110 N. Los Angeles Street as "Italian" Furnished Rooms, not as the Roma Hotel:
1888 Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LA Public Library
Here's where Giuseppe said
arrivederci to the Roma:
July 21, 1887,
Los Angeles Herald @ Newspapers.com