Thanks for the excellent follow-up on the Colehurst Apartments,
tovangar2. I was hoping to get a better picture for my original post, but GSV wouldn't let me see the historic images at that location.
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Tourmaline showed us some Life Magazine pictures of Romanoff's at 140 S Rodeo Drive in
post #35792. Here are a couple more in Julius Shulman's intriguingly titled
"Job 2144: Douglas Honnold, personal negatives, 1956".
I had to tweak this image a fair bit, and it's still not great, but it gives a good close-up of the Romanoff's sign. The white-fronted store on the left is the Dunhill store awaiting signage.
Going south, we have more stores on S Rodeo Drive.
Finally, a look at most of the block from Charleville Boulevard.
All from
Getty Research Institute
According to the 1956 CD, the stores on the block were:
136 S Rodeo Dr Alfred Dunhill of London Inc
140 S Rodeo Dr Romanoff's restaurant
148 S Rodeo Dr John Beistel Flowers
150 S Rodeo Dr Wm B Riley Ltd haberdashers
152 S Rodeo Dr Don Loper Inc [clothing]
156 S Rodeo Dr Robbins Leather Goods
158 S Rodeo Dr Amelia Gray Sportswear
None of the buildings survive.
GSV