I'm terrible with the search function on here, but couldn't find anything on the El Rey Hotel at 6th & San Pedro. I've seen 501 E. 6th, 505 E. 6th, 511 E. 6th St., and 515 E. 6th as addresses for this building. There is a matchbook on eBay for Nel's Coffee Shop at 566 S. San Pedro that caught my eye, so I looked on GSV and saw that it is now the Weingart Center. The 621-room El Rey was donated to the "city and county of Los Angeles" in 1979 as a "facility for alcholics" by the Weingart foundation in 1979. (LAT 4.6.79).
1927, Dick Whittington/USC
(all eBay)
1980 photo by William Reagh / Los Angeles Public Library
2022, GSV
**NOW**
Please don't take this as an invitation to discuss politics and sway from our purpose on this page, but in looking for the coffee shop I ended up on the San Pedro Street side, and just started scrolling through this spot over the last 15 years of Google Street View, and noticed some changes in the physical environment. Examples of what might be called ad hoc "defensive urban design." Aside from changes over 100 years, look at what's come and gone since 2008.
GSV 2008
Curved pickets on security fencing removed
GSV 2009
Logo graphic removed
Security camera added
GSV 2011
Security lighting added, tree removed, new pickets added on outside of fence
GSV 2017
Warning signage added, security gates added in doorways
GSV 2019