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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson
Thanks, who was 'Simpson'? Earlier this was the location of the court building. I've spent a lot of hours looking at this image. I suspected maybe it was on the west side of Olvera Street (by process of elimination, truly, I knew virtually every other building in the pic).
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I don't know who Simpson was http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14028
What "court building"?
Here's a nice 1882 shot of the future site of the Simpson Building. I'm a little confused as to who originally built this adobe. Sepulveda or Downey? Somebody help me:
http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...s)_Page_1.html
There's an interactive 1850 map of LA here:
http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Fullscreen....nd=calisphere#
Sunset only ran NW from the Plaza. In that area it used to be called Church St and then Bread St. I don't know what Marchessault was called before, probably nothing. The Plaza was just the Plaza.