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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
Back in 2015 e_r posted a photo of the Russian Eagle after the fire and explosion:
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
" Terrific blast nearly kills scores of screen stars.!" -Hollywood Cal.
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"Charles Chaplin, Colleen Moore and a score of other Hollywood's greatest stars narrowly escaped death when an explosion completely wrecked the American-Russian Eagle Cafe here. Eight persons were injured, two probably fatally. The stars were dining when an incendiary fire was discovered and warnings shouted. Soon after the diners rushed out, the building was completely wrecked by a terrific detonation."
06/21/1928. |
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This is 8640-48 Sunset Blvd. that housed the Russian Eagle Cafe, with roof intact, right after it was built in 1924.
It was one of the four original buildings developed by Francis Montgomery that was the initial phase of Sunset Plaza.
The above detail comes from this wider view of that first phase.
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Lined up here in a 1927 aerial.
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Did the 1928 fire and blast prompt an immediate reconfiguration of the middle two buildings into a bigger single one?
Or did that came later in the 1930s as seen here in 1938?
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