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Originally Posted by HossC
Here's the full 1940 picture. It was commissioned by the Western Wholesale Drug Co., but also shows Moffitt & Towne Paper and the General Paper Co.
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Thanks for posting this photo
HossC! The building at lower right was one of the earlier brick homes in Los Angeles, built in probably c. 1865-70 by longtime Los Angeles blacksmith Louis Breer. Here it is closer; its address was 215 S. San Pedro St.:
I mentioned the Breer home at the end of
this post, which was mostly on the nearby Lugo Adobe at 2nd and San Pedro.
More on Louis Breer:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=24
About his son Carl Breer, the automotive engineer:
http://books.google.com/books?id=_dj...ksmith&f=false
An oral history interview with Carl Breer's son, sculptor and filmmaker Robert Breer:
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/in...rt-breer-11951