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Originally Posted by Lorendoc
The assessor says "built in 1929, effective year built 1938." I can almost see it as an Art Deco-Mayan hybrid
Looking at it some more, I am not convinced that Chuckaluck's first picture is the same as the modern building. There is a large brick structure behind it which is too close to be a residential structure on North Detroit Street.
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I shrugged at the building comparisons but deferred to the source's description of a "building on La Brea south of Beverly." Parenthetically, it is not unreasonable to assume the building started out with big hair and a small footprint in the '20s and gained some shoe size with a haircut in the '30s. Admittedly, I have no empirical evidence for this, but so many buildings lost their crowns following the '33 Long Beach Quake, it is possible that a combination of building damage/earthquake vulnerability and ongoing development in the neighborhood made a very substantial remodel a practical reality. Labor and materials were plentiful and "relatively" affordable.
"Printing?" There was an E. Clark, printer at 407 E. Pico. Very impressive buiilding but dismilar.
FWIW, the Mayan Apts. and Shop designation struck me as odd. Nevertheless, there is a '39 listing for Mayan Apartments at 113 1/2 N. La Brea. (There are also listings for Mayan Apts. at 807 N. Madison Ave. and there is a Mayan Hotel at 3049 W 8th Street, neither of which resemble the structure/s in question.)
In reexamining the structures I discovered another pretty structure in the area: Hispano Moresque Tiles and The California Bank. The source indicates the building sate at Beverly and La Brea and there is a listing for the Bank at 175 N. La Brea. The '32 CD has a "La Brea - Wilshire Branch" listing for Cal Bank at 671 S La Brea and there does not appear to be a listing for Beverly and La Brea. this suggests the Bank vacated the 175 address for bigger digs at 671. Hispano Moresque was at 173 N. La Brea.
The mundane structure benefitted immensely from the imaginative use of tile.
~1929 Hispano Moresque Tile Co. and California Bank at La Brea and Beverly 173-175 N. La Brea
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