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Originally Posted by Beaudry
So we're all familiar with the Old Central No 1....
Love to know when it got modernized -- I would've assumed that the pointed parapet came down after the '49 ordinance but it was obviously gone when they shot Shockproof in '48. I'm guessing it's a late-30s remodel but more digging needs to be done...
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Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1931
Old Central Station still had its full Romanesque façade in 1931, but, after years of being called obsolete, varmint-infested,
and dangerous, it was condemned by the Health Commission in 1930 but not totally abandoned for another 25 years. There
are dozens & dozens of articles in the
Times pertaining to the station over its lifetime (1896-1955), many about its
inadequacies. Here's one:
Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1939
And yet it remained in use for another 16 years...
I could find no specific references to the change in the building's façade, such as if it might have been due to the 1933 Long
Beach earthquake, but your estimate of it occurring in the late '30s could easily be right,
Beaudry. In May 1938 the
city's police budget included $50,000 for "improvements" to Central Station.
In the latter days...
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