It’s not often I come across a photo of any building, let alone three in a row, which are in as good condition now as they were 80 years ago. The trio (photographed here in the early 1940s) stands near the western end of the Sunset Strip at Carol Drive. They’re all professional buildings which, I imagine, have been home all sorts of businesses over the years. Currently the one on the corner houses the office of Ron Burkle’s foundation. There was a time when many of the buildings along the Sunset Strip looked like these. What a sight that must have been, but at least we still have these three.
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Amazing!
It really is!
What’s even more amazing – those three buildings were built as a contigious whole. Google Earthed property and from the rear second story windowed hallway connections between all three!
Fantasizing about the interiors of the building on the corner. With all those, what appear to be, working chimneys.. I’m imagining irreplaceable old growth wood paneled walls and hand carved marble fireplace surrounds… Being one block east of Doheny Drive that was a very elegant neighbourhood; and would (in theory) support such expensive fantasies.