Here's an image new to NLA; it came with a collection of negatives I just picked up and I don't think many if any have come out of their sleeves since they were shot and put in a drawer 40-60 years ago.
I dig it because YOU are a Capitalist! and we're looking across Fifth up Fig toward the Streicher/Striker, which we saw semi-recently (
here,
and here and
here)
So Mr Spectator-Shoe is walking about here:
Just this side of the
Architects' Bldg, next to the Bur-Mar Hotel parking lot. Here's the faded sign:
Some of the Bur-Mar—
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Figueroa rhapsody, 1951 by
Michael Ryerson, on Flickr
What really got me was this restaurant/cocktail lounge at 458 S Fig—
There's nothing in the 1956 or '60 street address directories for 458, so I don't know what it was called. (It was known as Park's Coffee Shop in 1936, according to an article in the
Times—also, it had its
liquor license noirishly suspended in 1954.)
But check out the art deco detailing! So I looked it up in the DBS and it was built in 1928, its architect none other than
Gordon B Kaufman! It of course is demolished in 1964. However, in 1924, the original structure sitting at 458 S Fig
was moved to 649 N Occidental, where it remains to this day! A Bunker Hill survivor!