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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
After no little poking around, I discovered the ebay photo shows Santa Maria, CA. There are differences between the photo and this image,
but they must show the same building:
Sep 30, 1905, Santa Maria Times @ Newspapers.com |
Here's the Santa Maria Masonic Temple from a slightly different angle. There's more information about it at
the Historical Marker Database. It says that the basement housed the first telephone company in Santa Maria, but that lodge meetings ended after the building was damaged in the earthquakes of 1926 and 1927. No demolition date is given, but the site is now just the middle of one side of an anonymous parking lot.
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