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Originally Posted by sopas ej
Why, why, why did the Richfield Building get demolished??
Apparently it was still in pretty good condition even on the inside, right up to its demolition.
Some images from the American Historic Buildings Survey... it was such a gorgeous building.
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Sopas--this may be the singlemost arresting set of pictures ever posted here. The only thing more mind-blowing than this building
is that it was destroyed. You have to wonder at the cretinism of those who made the decision to take it down. I suppose it's some small
consolation that its destruction was seen by some as L.A.'s Penn Station, in that it woke Angelenos up to preservation... more or less.
And at least we still have (in the shot above) the Goodhue Central Library and Farquhar's California Club.