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Originally Posted by FredH

11/15/60 - Center building is the Hoegee Sporting Goods Store at 138-142 South Main Street. The modernist City Health Building (1952, Lunden Hayward and O'Connor) at 1st and Main Streets in the distance.


http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8923/rec/372

Originally Posted by WS1911

That ghost of a staircase on the wall of the sporting goods store is intriguing. Does anyone know what building was there?

Originally Posted by Noircitydame

This seems to be another one of those under-photographed blocks. The 1921 Baist map shows the Weil Block there. The LAPL has a photo of the Weil Block, and says it "housed the Security Savings Bank and Trust Co., a predecessor of the contemporary Security Pacific National Bank, which opened in this building on Main Street, on February 11, 1889" It was a 3-story building. But none of this helps explain the ghost staircase!


http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics26/00047798.jpg

USC has this picture dated December 1, 1932. It shows the Hoegee Sporting Goods Store, the Weil Block, and the Hotel Yorke on the corner.


USC Digital Library

HDL has another color shot dated 2/15/60 (nine months before the one posted by FredH. The lower two floors of the Weil Block are still standing and the Meyberg Bros ghost sign hasn't been uncovered yet.


Huntington Digital Library

The March 1960 CD only lists the businesses that were still open.


LAPL

The 1956 CD fills in some of the gaps.


LAPL