So much good stuff of late! First off, a big thank-you to Rick M for identifying the slide of
3309 the other day—I couldn't say where that was, but knew without question it was Bradbeer & Ferris. I was going to do a post all about its relationship to other B&Fs in the area (which interrupted my vaster Stiles Clements post) but then I got interrupted
again by those Shulman
"twilight" pix and that started me down the Shulman rabbit-hole again.
At which point I saw this image among the Shulmanalia—
shulman — Job 2507: Pereira & Luckman, Union Oil Company Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1957
—which immediately reminded me of the beloved Whittington shot from the Richfield in 1929...
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...whereby I thought aha! And so dropped everything and, because what else would I have to do on a Friday night, but make a then-and-now comparison, or at least a then-and-then. Like so:
Really gives a feeling as to how completely obliterated Fremont St becomes.
If it's not readily apparent, here are a couple touchstones.
Note the Huntley in the upper right in both, at Third & Boylston (before Third made that jog and took over Crown Hill Ave, and the old Third became Miramar) . And how the Peerless Cab Company bldg has become Cleaning-Janitor Service. The white 3-story apartment at 434 Boylston (that stretches its backside, shown to us, down to Beaudry) hangs on till 1957. Across the street from it are 417 ("The Angus") and 411 (with the Mission parapet) Boylston.
And below, note at very far left, our old pal, a tiny glimpse of
the Evangeline:
The white building next to the Evangeline (Corinthian columns) at 511 was known aptly enough as "The Boylston Apartments."
That's all I had to say on the matter, really. For what it's worth, here's today:
(And should you need another shot of Boylston from 6th to 3rd in 1955, click
here.)
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