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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Here's a rare look inside one of the rooms in the old Wilcox Hotel in Hollywood. (Sept. 4, 1942)
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I believe the three buddies are in the military because, unless I'm mistaken, their hats are on top of the credenza.
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Here's a closer look. (there's one of their hats)
They're drinking 7-UP and , what looks like , some kind of whiskey.
The Wilcox Hotel around the time of their visit.
historicconsultants
As you can see , the hotel entrance is actually on Selma and not Wilcox.
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Just because: Here's a close-up of the Wilcox Hotel as seen in the Hollywood Diorama that toured the country from 1946-48 to give people an idea of what the city of Hollywood looked like. (I've mentioned it on NLA before.)
AprilClemmer
There are photos of the diorama at this
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FYI: The Hotel Wilcox building is still there as the Mama Shelter. (The art-deco Hollywood Post Office is across the street.) In 2015 Mama Shelter opened, a "hip hotel, restaurant and bar destination in Hollywood which [...] includes 70 hotel rooms which start around $150 each and include amenities like iMac computers in every room and fun, youthful décor (designed by Philippe Starck) and things like message boards above the fireplace and Hollywood-centric movie scripts included in guest rooms. The ground floor includes a bar, full-service restaurant (with food by Benjamin Bailly) and a coffee shop selling Intelligentsia products. The rooftop features another restaurant/bar as well as an outdoor gym." --
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The area is rapidly changing: The intersection of Selma and Wilcox has seen the opening of the Dream and the French-based Mama Shelter hotels (mentioned above) in the last few years. An under construction Thompson Hotel is slated to rise two doors south of the Mama Shelter on Wilcox. About a half-block to the north, on Wilcox near Hollywood Boulevard, the 134-room Whisky Hotel is in the works. In 2019 the City Council approved plans to build an eight-story hotel at Selma and Wilcox Avenues (the Selma Wilcox Hotel).
The Hollywood Citizen News building next door to Mama Shelter (Hotel Wilcox), a 1936 view:
CurbedLA
A more recent view:
MiramarCapital
The building is set to be transformed into restaurants and events space.