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Originally Posted by Beaudry
Gentlemen (and ladies),
I've a bit of a mystery and I turn to you because you are the Best and Brightest of our generation!
So here's an RPPC that fell in my lap, scrawled on the back is "This picture is where we worked on South Hope St. in Los Angeles Cal."
I've cruised around some aerials and toodled down some Hope St shots in the usual collections to no avail. Anybody recognize this girl?
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Wanted to follow up on this—many thanks to Lorendoc who made some incisive analysis in
this reply!
It was noirisher Flyingwedge who PM'd to send
this image—pointing out that my li'l building was, in fact, at 1133 S Hope. Zooming in to the left of the water tank atop Western Auto Supply, there she is!
1133 was known as the "Claron Del" apts. Built about 1913. Not in the 1910 Baist, but in the 1914 Baist, and here's an ad from September '13:
From what I can tell, she becomes a parking lot in 1980.
The most interesting thing I found in researching her history—in the early '30s there was a series of "stench bombings" at theaters that hired nonunion projectionists. There had been twenty-two such attacks by February '32 when police arrested seven people, one of whom was Bejamin Stahl, taken into custody at his home in the Claron Del and booked for arson.
Million thanks to all y'all!