I don’t normally post photos taken as recently as the 1980s, but apart from a couple of tell-tale details, this one could be from pretty much any time in the past hundred years, not specifically 1983. This is the front entrance of the train station that the Southern Pacific Railroad built at 400 W Cerritos Ave, Glendale, California, in 1924. How nice it must have been to live in a time and place where even structures as utilitarian as train stations were designed and built to please the eye.
Here is a side view (undated)
This is how that station looked in July 2022. If you ask me, it looks nicer now that it did in the 1980s.
The climactic scene at the end of the film noir Act of Violence, part of 2020’s Noir City film program, which I happened to see at the Post 43 American Legion Theatre right before the pandemic shut things down, was filmed at this very location. Bulletproof, Big Business Girl, College, Girl Missing, Horse Shoes, One More Chance and Here Comes the Groom are also some films that used this station as a filming location.
The site also had a brush with history on Sept. 20, 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stopped there for about six minutes during his visit to Los Angeles.
I found this article, a reminiscence of a high-schooler who wanted to visit the Glendale Station to see Khrushchev. Another piece I read had a link to a photo of his visit there, but it didn’t work and a search didn’t lead me to any other photos that I could find, but this article gives a nice description of the scene!
https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-xpm-2006-03-17-gnp-yamada17-story.html