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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
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Pickfair, post-Phillips, pre-final Wallace Neff makeover. |
Pickfair wasn't the first real estate project Pick and Fair took on. In 1928, they built a Normanish apartment building called "Trianon" off Hollywood and Western. The architect was Leland Bryant, who also designed the Sunset Tower/Argyle Hotel. Here's how it looked then:
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Each floor had only four units, and semi-private elevators meant you shared the elevator with only one other person on your floor.
Here's how it looks now:
Actually, it looks like this:
(That blob in the upper left is a tree canopy. I couldn't get rid of it while keeping the same perspective)
The cottage-like section on the left is a separate 3-bedroom unit where Pick and Fair lived while they were building Pickfair.
Trianon is still an in-use apartment building.
(There's always a chance this info has already been posted. As of page 71, it hadn't been.)