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Originally Posted by tovangar2
Looking west to the next block, one sees John and Donald Parkinson's 1930 towered building for California Bank at No. 5620 Hollywood Blvd.:
Well maintained, but very anonymous:

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5620 is, of course, famous for its role as the faux "El Centro" theater in the "movie-premiere pot-bust" scene in "LA Confidential" (1997):

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Here is the whole line-up back in 1951:
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1994, just after the Northridge Earthquake.
Ken Fowler
I thought I'd be able to find a better photograph, but this is the only one that I located.