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Originally Posted by HossC

The Ville de Paris department store has been briefly mentioned before on NLA. Here's their advert from the 1921 CD.


LAPL

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

BSLA

There is a connection via the Fusenot family...check it out here:

http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles....fairchild.html

Prior Ville de Paris:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11167

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=5153866

LAPL also has this staff photo (http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059281.jpg) and dates it 1901:


A slightly larger version of GW's photo with Laughlin over door at right:



Los Angeles, The Old and The New (J. E. Scott, 1911) at HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=81

Below is an undated interior photo of Ville de Paris store "between Broadway, Hill, 2nd and 3rd":

USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1765/rec/1

Looking north on Hill St., 1905; the Ville de Paris building is across the street with the awning:

LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068227.jpg

Homer Laughlin Annex on Hill Street, 1907:

CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...QQHRA5G4GK.jpg

Broadway side, February 21, 1913:

Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/13511/rec/1

SE corner 7th and Olive location being built. Source says 1920/30; LAPL has same photo (http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059133.jpg) and dates it 1917:

USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/8258/rec/5

1940:

LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032550.jpg

Undated:

LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068350.jpg


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