Yesterday, I posted a 1944 photo of the May Co store at Wilshire Blvd and Fairfax Ave. What caught my eye was a green-and-white Art Deco building a couple of doors to the west. I’d never noticed it before so I went a-hunting. My search resulted in this photo. Turns out 6111 Wilshire Blvd was a realtor office. In 1944, it was called Henry E. Burke Realtors; in this photo (undated) it was the office of Fred W Klein. I love the clean angular lines, especially those four planks on the roof that extend down to the front door. And also those glass tiles! There is a name at the top: “Krandill” which I’m guessing was the name of the contractor sharing the office. Evidently it was a combination of the principals’ names: Herman Kranz and R.S. Diller.

It looks like 6111 Wilshire is now just an empty. Seems like a rotten shame to raze a building like that for nothing. (This photo is from April 2019. On the far right you can see the glass dome of the nearby Academy museum taking shape.)