Earlier on the page Gaylord_Wilshire posted a 1959 aerial showing the proposed location for the SEIBU department store.
I've been meaning to do a SEIBU post for quite some time..so this seems like a good time to do so.
below: SEIBU, the Japanese department store opened on March 1962 at the southeast corner of Wilshire & Fairfax.
This was three years
before LACMA.
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/FullRecord?
databaseID=968&record=6&controlNumber=4778773
below: Looking north on Fairfax toward the May Co. department store on Wilshire.
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=60450
below: Interior view 1962.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53409445@N04/5447380644/
below: SEIBU 1962 rooftop restaurant (I didn't know there was a rooftop restaurant until today)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53409445@N04/page7/
below: Another view of the rooftop restaurant 1962.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53409445@N04/page7/
SEIBU only lasted from 1962 to 1964. From 1964 to 1986 it operated as an Ohrbach's department store.
below: SEIBU as an Ohrbach's in 1978.
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=4984278
below: Today the SEIBU building hosts the Peterson Automotive Museum.
google street views
..for comparison
LAPL
I just found out the rooftop restaurant space is still intact!
http://www.herecomestheguide.com/sou...motive-museum/