Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA - Hotel Alexandria - Restaurant

Description: Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA - Hotel Alexandria - Restaurant - 1909: The Hotel Alexandria is a historic building that was constructed as a luxury hotel at the beginning of the Twentieth Century in what was then the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. As the business center of the city moved gradually westward, the hotel decayed and gradually devolved into an SRO hotel housing long-term, low-income residents and gained a reputation for crime and being unsafe. As the area was revitalized in the first decade of the 21st Century, the building has recently been remodeled as apartments. Due to its elegant design and the fact that its public rooms had remained unused for decades, it was able to be used for countless film shoots. Its iconic Palm Court ballroom is now a protected Los Angeles landmark. The Hotel Alexandria opened on February 12, 1906, as an 8-story luxury hotel at the southeast corner of Spring and 5th Streets in downtown Los Angeles. Its popularity resulted in a twelve-story addition being built behind the original building in 1911. The hotel was the most luxurious in Los Angeles for a number of years, but the construction of the Biltmore Hotel four blocks west in 1923 presaged a gradual westward movement of the entire downtown business district over the next few decades. The old heart of Los Angeles along Broadway was gradually abandoned, and a new downtown grew up west of the Biltmore along Figueroa. This Divided Back Era postcard, mailed in 1909, is in good condition but shows some edge wear. Newman Post Card Co. Los Angeles, Calif. No. 6205.

Price: 8.5 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-02-05T20:36:51.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD