The La France Apartments were at 681 S. Burlington, between Wilshire Blvd. and 7th Street.
Dec 9, 1917:
USC Digital Library --
https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/Share...4ar74m688mj85f
Entrance detail:
Roof detail; it looks like what's on the cartouche is also what the statue is holding under its left arm (the thing that looks like a figure eight):
The last aerial to show the La France is the blurry 1994 Google Earth image; here is the La France in the center of the clearer 1980 Historic Aerials.com view (parking lots on both sides):
http://www.historicaerials.com/
Today the former La France site is the playground for the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy. The sidewalk in front is new, too.
But there are a number of surviving Wilshire Specials on either side of Burlington, or at least there were the last time the Googlemobile went by:
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