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L.A. County Art Museum
Hoover bet. 8th St. & 9th St. (landmark) |
This site hosted racing and gambling untl 1909, when concerned citizens had it recreated as a 'cultural center'. The museum kept fine art, while the rose garden hid wonders suchs as a sphere-within-a-sphere celestial model, or 'armillary sphere'. |
location and story seem fictionalized
However, building looks like the Natural History Museum in Exhibition Park which shared space with the local art museum before it moved to its current location in 1965 (as LACMA) on Wilshire between the tar pits and Fairfax Ave.
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MacArthur Park
Wilshire Blvd. & Alvarado (landmark)
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Westlake Park was established in 1863, with the idea of beautifying the city and providing a 'democratic' space that would be available to people from all walks of life. On May 7, 1942, the park took the name of General Douglas MacArthur. |
same location, still in use, LA HCM #100 |
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Park Plaza
6th St. & S. Park View St. (landmark)
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Built in 1925, the architect Claud Beelman designed Park Plaza as a venue for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Over the entrance is engraved a passage from the Bible and various statues of angels watching from the front. |
same location, still in use, LA HCM #267
Designed by Claud Beelman in gothic revival style. |
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Westlake Tar Pits
San Marino St. bet. Westmoreland Ave. & Hoover St. (landmark) |
Father Juan Crespi wrote of Los Volcanoes da Brea in 1769. By 1901 archaeological specimens were emerging, including the skeleton of a human female in 1914. Trauma to her skull suggests that she may have been LA's first recorded Homicide. |
different location, still open
This is really La Brea Tar Pits located at Wilshire Blvd. & Curson Ave. |
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Bullocks Wilshire
Wilshire Blvd. & Westmoreland Ave. (landmark) |
John and Donald Parkinson designed an art-deco monument to house this upmarket department store, which opened in 1929. The 241-foot tower was paneled with green-tinted copper, and notable customers included Greta Garbo, John Wayne and Clark Gable. |
same location, different use
It ceased being a Bullocks store around 1993 between getting bought out and getting damaged in the LA riots. It was bought soon after by Southwestern Law School and opened again restored for use as a library and school facilities. |
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The Bryson Apartments
2701 Wilshire Blvd. |
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same location, unknown use, LA HCM #653
Built in 1913 in the Beaux Arts style |
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The Asbury
2505 W. 6th Street |
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same location, still in use
Opened in 1924. |
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Westlake Theatre
6th & Alvarado (landmark) |
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same location, different use, LA HCM #546
Opened in 1926 and designed in Spanish baroque style (Churrigueresque) but is now used as a swap meet |
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Curtis Benson's Apartment
740 Mariposa (story scene) |
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different location, still in use
The Mauretania, 520 N. Rossmore Ave. Designed by Milton J. Black in 1934 in the streamline moderne style.
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