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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I've been trying to determine the exact location of this Department of Employment Building
In the distance, I've circled a rooftop sign that appears to read Hotel St. Paul*...but I'm not entirely sure.
(I can't read what it says on the tall building at right)
unknown/found on an old cd of mine
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*I just found this postcard on ebay.
below: Is this the same building that appears in the above photograph? If so the sign seems to be facing in an entirely different direction.
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You might've been having a bit of difficulty searching Department of Employment -- there were a number of them -- this was the Department of
Unemployment, a wholly different agency.
The DoUe was at 525 S Flower, as such, the Richfield Bldg is just out of frame next door to the south (left). The DoUe was built in 1949, so, just up from its contemporary General Petroleum and soon to be joined by Superior Oil. Corporate Modern overtakes Art Deco!
The big bldg in the bg was the Architects Bldg, 1929. We always repeat that the Richfield was felled for the Arco Towers in the late 60s but it was in fact the whole block that got leveled, these characters included.
Of course, that guy over Unemployment's shoulder, the Carlton Hotel at 531 Figueroa, north of the Jonathan Club, is
no longer with us, nor is the Hotel St Paul, John V Koester, 1927, that block bounded by 6th, Boylston, 5th and Bixel is now a big ol' parking lot. (Though the neighboring lot is
now home to another piece of corporate high-modernism courtesy of the oil industry. Represent!)