Michael Ryerson posted this photo recently, but I didn't really understand what I was looking at until I ran across his flickr page. I have been
interested in the Hildreth Mansion, that sat on the corner of the 4th Street stub which seems to elude both maps and photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael...n/14844552266/
Michael Ryerson:
"Looking west from Grand Avenue along 4th Street, 1954
The camera, facing west, appears to be situated on the property on the NW corner of Grand and 4th Street. The Brunson/4th&Grand service
garage would have been to the immediate right of the camera. As you've noted, we're looking across the southern end of Bunker Hill Avenue
and immediately beyond that the shattered foundations of the now-missing Crestholme, the Kiernan and the Gibson over on the NE corner of
Hope Street. That distinctive dark retaining wall is all that's left of the Hildreth (Hopecrest, indeed). Over here on the left, between the Barbara
Worth and the camera, the upper floors of the LaBelle and the Bronx have been removed and out-of-frame to left the status of the Gordon
and the Zelda is unknown."
Huntington Digital Library/Palmer Conner Collection of Color Slides of Los Angeles, 1950 - 1970
A closer view of the Hildreth retaining wall (the one in the back) is here:
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8663/rec/658
LAPL
Interesting, but you still don't have a view down that damn stub.