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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
As far as castle-inspired buildings go, I've always been partial toward the Pacific Coast Club (PCC) in Long Beach. I know we've seen it here before, but I searched and only found one post with a couple photos that have the PCC in the distance: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=438
April 2011; the Pacific Coast Club is gone but, remarkably, the 1904-built house just to the east at 852 E. Ocean Blvd. is still there, though altered in '54:
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I took the next five photos in, I think it was 1988, when I was working in downtown Long Beach and heard that the PCC would be torn down:
Looking across Ocean Blvd at the north side; the cornerstone is behind the big NO TRESPASSING sign. |
What an amazing building! Never heard of the Pacific Coast Club before. Love your 80's pics, but so sad that they had to demolish it.
The 1904-built house next to the PCC you're referring to is the Greene & Greene-designed Tichenor House. Here's an interesting article from 1985 that indicates the house was once threatened with demolition (and maybe still is?), and mentions the "now-condemned Pacific Coast Club":
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-12-...tichenor-house