Following on from yesterday’s 1929 view of the William Penn Hotel, comes this similar building, the Windsor Apartments. This place was built in 1926 and this photo was taken a year later in 1927, when tree shade was meager but parking was easier. Its address is 3198 7th St, which means that side street is Catalina. And that means the building looked out across the Ambassador Hotel, which had opened in 1921. Its residents could have walked to the Cocoanut Grove, which I would have done often if I’d been living there at the time.
A front-on view from 1927:
This is roughly how that view looked in May 2024. Unlike the William Penn, the Windsor has been able to retain its peaked gables.
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Wow, and I love the awnings!
For once, not only still with us, but dare I say… an improvement from then to now?
I am also so happy that this grand lady is still standing. I love the awnings as well but wish they had gone with a more muted color. I think the red kind of clashes with the rest of the architecture.
beautiful building, and it looks like the original streetlight on the corner is still there.
I love that it has kept its gables! It was disappointing yesterday to see that the William Penn had lost theirs. Although it’s always wonderful to see the building still standing at least.