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Old Posted Feb 27, 2014, 9:22 AM
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Vive La France!

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:

GSV


GSV

Last edited by Flyingwedge; Feb 27, 2023 at 5:47 AM. Reason: update USCDL link
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