In this photo, we’re looking north up what was in 1931 a very sparsely populated Fairfax Ave at Drexel Ave. Miraculously, that building on the left is still around and is currently occupied by Samy’s Camera. All that empty land on the right is now taken up with the sprawling Park La Brea apartment community, which is the largest housing development in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River
Drexel Ave looking east across Fairfax Ave to oil wells on land now occupied by Park La Brea, Los Angeles, 1931:
The same view in March 2018:
The Samy’s Camera building with its lovely Art Deco features still intact:
In this photo, we’re looking north up what was in 1931 a very sparsely populated Fairfax Ave at Drexel Ave. Miraculously, that building on the left is still around and is currently occupied by Samy’s Camera. All that empty land on the right is now taken up with the sprawling Park La Brea apartment community, which is the largest housing development in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River
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