In this contemporary view, from left to right are a sliver of 533 South St. Andrews, The San Andrea at 515,
then 4254 W. 5th on the SW corner of 5th Street. You can see a little of 5th Street, but the apartment buildings
north of 5th are obscured by trees:
October 2016 GSV
Here we have roughly the same view, undated and titled only "View of homes on St. Andrews Place, Los Angeles."
However, I was able to figure out that from left to right are 521, 517, 509, 503, 457, and 447 S. St. Andrews (with
a bit of 439's roof above 447). Perhaps c. 1915 would be a fair guess at the date:
UCLA/Islandora
This is an enlargement of 509, 503 (on SW corner), 457 (with prominent chimney on NW corner), 447, and
the bit of 439's roof. In the extreme lower right corner of the photo you can see a white pole with street signs.
I couldn't find when 457 was built, but, redesignated 4255 W. 5th St., it was demolished in 1964; 447 stood
from 1913 to 1958:
Here, similarly magnified, are 521 (built 1912) and 517 (its build date is unclear, but there is an April 27, 1916,
building permit for some remodeling):
This is a not especially crisp image of 517 from the February 2, 1919,
Los Angeles Times:
ProQuest via LAPL
1921 Sanborn Map with north on the left . . . the empty lot to the right of 521 will be filled by 525-527 S. St. Andrews
(building permit dated 10/6/21; demo permit dated 3/1/86). On the corner, 503 was built in 1913 and stood until 1960
or 1961 (its replacement is now designated 4254 W. 5th). The BP for 509 is dated September 24, 1912:
ProQuest via LAPL
The demo permits for 521, 517, and 509 S. St. Andrews -- which were replaced by The San Andrea at 515 -- are
all dated May 28, 1957. The BP for The San Andrea (originally 40 units, but now listed with 34 by some sources) is
dated July 17, 1957.
It's funny to me that I was able to ID that particular old photo, because for two or three years when I was a kid, my
grandparents managed 515 S. St. Andrews. Their apartment was where the red dot is on the photo below. The round
end of the pool at left is the deep end, where I found it fun to swim down and hold my hand against the suction of
the drain. The pressure hurt my ears, but of course I kept on doing it:
Google aerial