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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I came across this interesting photograph on SkyscraperCity that I don't remember seeing on NLA. (I could be wrong, but I searched several times)
It shows an 'annex' behind the 409 room Hotel Figueroa that I hadn't noticed before.
I just noticed there's an arrow on the main building pointing down to the 'Plunge and Gymnasium'.
It also says the Y.W.C.A. entrance is on College Place.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=427
Does anyone know when the indoor gymnasium and plunge portion of the Hotel Figueroa was torn down? -was it when it ceased to be a Y.W.C.A. |
USC have a zoomable version of the picture above - you can find it
here. They date it at "before 1940".
I tried looking at Historic Aerials to find out when the building on the right was demolished. I'm pretty sure it's there on the 1948 image, and probably on the 1952 image too, but I think it's gone by 1964. The images are a little blurry at that zoom level.
Here's an advert for the Figueroa Hotel from the Hotel & Motel Red Book 1970. They used the same advert in 1965. It appears to show the Cottage Place entrance.
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