Goodbye Parker Center, Los Angeles, Cal.

Now that the dust has settled, here is a lazy photo record of Parker Center taken only in very recent times.  Taken from the city parking lot...each time on the way to eat in Little Tokyo.

My condolences to the Cranky Preservationist, sorry dude.  The 1955 Los Angeles Police Facilities Building, then renamed Parker Center, was leveled last month.

See also an earlier post, Beneath Parker Center:  the Paris Inn Café, Little Tokyo, Vigilantes and Mexican Immigrants.

May, 2017

December 22, 2018

This and the following photo taken January 6, 2019

April,  20, 2019

May, 25, 2019

June, 2019

"Sans building" July 27, 2019

Update 8/20/2019:  Los Angeles photographer Gary Leonard visited the site during the last weeks of the demolition.  Shown include shots taken from the City Hall East building across the street.

Photograph courtesy of Gary Leonard

Photograph courtesy of Gary Leonard

Photograph courtesy of Gary Leonard

Photograph courtesy of Gary Leonard

250th Anniversary of the Portolá Expedition Through Southern California

Another day for L.A. photographer Gary Leonard in tracking L.A. history with his camera lenses.

He emailed this yesterday:  "Today, August 3rd, is the 250th Anniversary.  The Portolá Expedition came upon the LaBrea Tar Pits.  It's all written down in the Father Crespí diary."

Photo courtesy of Gary Leonard

[Update 8/8/2019]

Gary wrote on August 7th, "250 years ago today The Portolá Expedition left Encino after camping there for two nights."

Photo courtesy of Gary Leonard

Then he added, "Seemed appropriate to mark the occasion by getting gas at the same location where they departed 250 years ago today."

Photo courtesy of Gary Leonard

For more about recent local activities commemorating the anniversary of the 1769/1770 Spanish land expedition, visit a chronicling by Paul R. Spitzerri at the Homestead Museum from this past Friday, August 2nd.

Read Los Angeles Revisited's previous blog post on Gary Leonard.