Thanks to
tovangar2,
CityBoyDoug,
Noircitydame and
Mendotaman for your extra information and memories of Coffee Dan's in Azusa. It looks like I had the correct intersection, but was looking on the wrong corner.
There's no mystery about the location of today's Julius Shulman pictures. The American City Bank was at 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Century City. It's
"Job 5843: Welton Becket and Associates, American City Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.),1980". I'd really like to see a color picture of this building, but, unfortunately, the only color shot in the photoset shows a different location.
All from
Getty Research Institute
The American City Bank didn't last long after the photos above were taken. It failed, and was taken over, in early 1983. The clipping below is from the February 28, 1983 edition of the Toledo Blade.
NB. I've balanced the columns to make the article more screen-friendly.
news.google.com
USC date this image as "circa 1959-05-03". The text below comes from an Examiner article on the back of the photograph. For search purposes it says:
"Construction will start this month on the first unit of Century City, a $2,500,000 office building containing headquarters for Welton Becket and Associates, architects and engineers for the project at Santa Monica boulevard and Moreno drive in Los Angeles. The structure keynotes development of the $400,000,000 Century City, master-planned by the firm for Webb and Knapp, owner and developer". USC have
another copy of this image with a note on the back which says
"Ground-breaking ceremonies took place May 25 ..."
USC Digital Library
Finding the building gone, I checked Historic Aerials. It's still visible on the 2005 view, but gone by the first GSV image in 2007. Here's how the site looked last year, just before construction on the new building started.
GSV
This is a rendering of the new building that I found at
bellomag.com.
www.bellomag.com
There's more on the new building at:
skyscraperpage.com
la.curbed.com