After yesterday's posts about the Ritts Co building at 8445 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Martin Pal told me that Julius Shulman had taken photos of the building in 1947. When I checked the archive, I found a set with 12 photos. I've only left out three because I liked the other nine too much. They're all from
"Job 89: Ritts Furniture, 1947". "Tropical & Modern Furniture" must be a pretty unique combination.
This is the Olive Drive side, as seen in 'Lethal Weapon'.
The three images I omitted are all views of this corner (two are almost identical), but I decided that you can have too much of a good thing.
Tucked away inside the corner is this little room.
Here's a more conventional office on the upper floor.
The downstairs showroom has that mixture of "Tropical & Modern Furniture".
A reverse view of the image above.
It's an unusual fireplace, but I like it.
I'll finish with the only picture of the workshop.
All from
Getty Research Institute
I hope that was worth the 24 hour wait,
Martin Pal 
.