Thank you
e_r for the interior shots of Park la Brea. I've read that the
architectural firm which did Park la Brea, along with Gordon B. Kaufmann, was also responsible for the Lincoln Heights jail (plus, of course, the 1922 Biltmore Hotel, the 1923 Jonathan Club, the 1925 Subway Terminal Building and etc).
The now decommissioned Lincoln Heights Jail:
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Close-up of one of the entrance lights:
avoiding regret <--- more great exterior/interior pix at the link
google maps
Godzilla did an outstanding post on historic pix of the jail. Well worth another look:
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Originally Posted by Godzilla
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There's been a jail on this site since 1908 or before. The current building opened in 1931 and closed in 1965. The Eastside Division police station to the north was replaced in 1949 by a jail addition which is now rented to community groups. Still owned by COLA, the 1931 building is currently used as a filming location.
The evil, the notorious and the deeply unfortunate have passed through Lincoln Heights Jail. In its time the site housed grusome murderer William Edward Hickman (1928), the Zoot-suiters and other victims of the Sailor Riots in 1943, Al Capone after his arrest at Union Station and was the scene, in 1951, of one episode of the unprovoked, and repeated, beatings of seven prisoners by LAPD officers, an incident known as
"Bloody Christmas". In its last years the facility became LA's main drunk tank. The LAPD called it "the Grey Bar Motel". It's supposedly haunted.
The depiction of "Bloody Christmas" in "LA Confidential" (1997) was filmed on site (as were other scenes). Compare this screenshot with the historic and current photos below:
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Originally Posted by Godzilla
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A current photo:
scott reyes / instagram
sopas ej,
Fab Fifties Fan and
GW have also stopped by for a visit. See
here,
here and
here