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Originally Posted by Beaudry
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Summer of 1961 -- looking down Commercial St from Main, the Los Angeles Warehouse Co in far distance at the bend, now renamed the Charles R Hadley Company.
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The Charles R. Hadley company has an interesting history...it was bought by Burroughs in 1955, which became Unisys. (I wasn't even sure if Unisys still existed, but apparently it does.)
Anyway, Charles R. Hadley himself lived here:
Hadley commissioned Hudson & Munsell to design his house at 2976 Wilshire in 1905. And, remarkably, it still stands:
The story of man and house are here:
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