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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
...and speaking of Bunker Hill. 
Below: Clay Street.
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Below: The Vendome Hotel.
I'm not sure of the street address for this one.
Notice the archaic telephone booth.
Also why are there windows in what looks like a retaining wall?
They're to the right of The Vendome in the photo.
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Below: The EMS. -no address-
Hmmm...intriguing...why The EMS and not.....say.... The ELMS?
Anyone know what EMS stand for?
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Hey, the Vendome Hotel! That was an early one, at 231 South Hill, smack dab in the middle of the block between the two tunnels of 2nd and 3rd, built about 1888, when of course there were no tunnels there.
The reason the building next to it looks like a retaining wall is I think because it looks totally out of place next to the Victorian Vendome. That was a Late Moderne 1949 fire department garage and office building. In this earlier photo (1939, USC Digital Archives) you can see the 1924 fire dept HQ for Engine no. 3, Truck no. 2 and Rescue no. 3.
The 1949 building was built in that parking lot between them.
As far as the
Ems goes, if you look at the Baist's Real Estate Atlases, they list it as the Elms...even they thought "Ems" was too weird to deal with. I never did figure out where they got that name from. Much less why they plastered back only 1/3 of the building and then left all that naked shiplap.