640 South Main Street

640 South Main Street, Los Angeles

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Apr 21, 2022

The Cecil is the City’s Fault

Where the story goes sideways is all on our end. The Office of Historic Resources was given materials by the developer with which to determine the validity of painting over the eighty-year-old sign.

Apr 19, 2022

The Cecil’s Ghost

Which, to be correct, is not truly a ghost sign, as it _still_ advertises the famed, magnificent Hotel Cecil. It is the grandest of our great painted palimpsests, originally added to the wall in 1924