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Google Street View
Here's a church I wasn't aware of before: the University Christian Church under construction at the ne corner of
Santa Barbara and Budlong in 1924, and now. Not sure what's going on with the scoring or chalk marks on the east
face or how it was to tie in with the wing now to the east. The UCC congregation moved out toward the airport
around 1960; the old building is now the University Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Sometimes I look at pictures of this part of town--especially to the east toward Figueroa as seen in recent shots of
the SB/MLK-Fig intersection--and, where the entire cityscape isn't now given over to filling stations and strip malls and
there are still some neighborhoods of big old frame houses and bungalows under classic palms---and I wonder, what
happened? I know there are all the usual reasons of demographics, but I am still amazed by how much was just seemingly
so easily let go.