Ah, the Pacific Electric Building. I'm sure this has already been posted. Circa 1910.
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I love going to Cole's, which of course, is in the P.E. Building. I've been going to their Sunday brunches, with the bottomless mimosas. Dangerous, I must say--- I've left piss drunk a number of times. At least I walked and took the train there.
And, in Cole's men's room, I can say, if these signs are really true, that I've pissed where Charles Bukowski and Mickey Cohen have pissed.
Urinal photos by me
Probably not the original urinals, but the ones they pissed in were probably in those spaces.
Speaking of Bukowski, he lived the later years of his life in San Pedro, and is buried not too far from there, at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes. I took these photos of his grave back in 2011. I didn't put the beer and ciggies on his grave, they were already there when I arrived.
You can see the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the distance.
And, the Joan Crawford pictures from some posts back, brings me to this photo; also on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, is the Chadwick School.
"I should've known you'd know where to find the boys, AND the booze."
Photo by me
I drove up to the school but there were teen girls and shirtless teen boys jogging around the grounds, so I felt funny taking photos. So I took a picture of the sign instead.