You've made some excellent points
tovanger2.
-now that you pointed it out, it's plain as day that the LA City Water Co. sign is above two different arched windows.
(of course this could have happened when the sign was repainted sometime between 1888 and 1917)
I don't think we'll ever know for sure; but you have to admit, this mixture of fantasy & reality is what makes Los Angeles (and Hollywood) so interesting.
You could even say that Los Angeles exists within it's own ethereal reality.
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