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Old Posted Sep 2, 2013, 9:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
-here are a couple more.

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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge View Post
Both of these photos -- not taken at the same time -- show the west side of Broadway, just north of 5th Street. In the top photo, the building we see only the left-hand side of is the same building that we see all of in the bottom photo.

In the top photo above, the Broadway Drapery and Furniture Co. building lacks the lettering above the fourth floor windows that it has in the bottom photo and in this c. 1908 shot (see link for entire photo):

USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1799/rec/157


I marveled at the second image and what appeared to be outwardly bowed or bay windows. Shadows seemed to support this idea but now with the inclusion of the third image, I have my doubts. Could this building have had three remodels or maybe two with an optical illusion?
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