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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Originally Posted by HossC
Here's a close-up of Charlie Root.
Detail of picture in Huntington Digital Library
The picture was a publicity photograph for Walter M Murphy Motors Company. Here's their advert from the 1926 CD, showing their Hudson-Essex dealership was at 932 S Hope Street.
LAPL
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More info on 932 and 936 S. Hope was provided by
Odinthor here and
here. And of course Charlie Root is known
for having thrown the pitch that Babe Ruth hit for his "called shot" home run in the 1932 World Series.
This photo of 932 S. Hope is dated 1922; the
1921 and
1922 LACDs show Murphy at that address. Although the building
below matches the one in
e_r's photo, it does not match the one in the 1925 newspaper article from
Odinthor's post:
UCLA
This December 13, 1930, building permit is just for the sprinkler system, but it explains the conversion of the building from
a garage to a store for cash registers. It seems 932 Hope was renumbered 936 Hope at this time:
LADBS
This is the NCR building at 936 S. Hope, where the garage(s) had been. The CA State Library dates this photo and the next
three at c. 1923-33, but I'll say they are c. 1932. This photo looks south down Hope; the tower at right is one of the two for
KFI's "hammock" antenna:
CA State Library
This looks north up Hope Street:
CA State Library
The building permit for the coin-inspired marquise over the entrance is dated January 7, 1931:
LADBS
Here's a closer look at the entrance:
CA State Library
It looked nice inside, too:
CA State Library
In this c. 1938 photo, you can see the south end of the NCR building, how the building next door ("Pennzoil") had been
remodeled (compare with the first CA State Library photo above), as well as KFI's other tower from down the block,
across Olympic:
00012879 @
LAPL
The 900 block of S. Hope Street flooded on March 15, 1952:
EXM-N-9509-016~8 @
USCDL
The demo permit for 936 S. Hope is dated October 8, 1985.