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Originally Posted by tovangar2
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Originally Posted by tovangar2
The "Union Square" label is on the 1910 and 1914 Baist maps, but not on the 1921 version. I'm not sure why it was dropped. The robbery of the Union Square branch of the Hellman Bank, at 2412 W Hoover, occurred in late 1919 and the fallout was much in the Herald into 1921. Maybe that tainted the name.
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Here is Hellman Bank's Union Square Branch at 2412 S. Hoover. The photo is undated, but I'm guessing c. 1920.
The building permit for the structure is dated March 7, 1907, with the architect R. C. Ferguson:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Here's an enlargment of the entrance; the first line of text in the window is "TWENTY FOURTH AND HOOVER OFFICE":
There is a March 9, 1920, building permit to "change present front of building/no mezzanine - no structural change," but
I can't tell if the photo indicates any recent remodeling. The laundry truck at left may have a 1920 California license plate,
but I'm not sure about that either.
The demo permit for 2412 S. Hoover (and 2408, 2416, and 2418) is dated November 8, 1967.