Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Sentous Building, 617 N. Main St., Los Angeles, 1957

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Sentous Building, 617 N. Main St., Los Angeles, 1957

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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

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Photograph. "Mrs. Christine Sterling (arrow) nails black wreath on door -- For some people, old buildings should just get older and never die. That's how Mrs. Christine Sterling, so-called 'Mother of Olvera Street' feels about the old Sentous Building at 617 North Main Street. -- Yesterday she received word that the 77-year-old building would be torn down for a parking lot. -- 'It's like tearing out a page of our history,' Mrs. Sterling sighed in her house on Olvera Street. -- 'For awhile, Governor Pio Pico (the last Mexican governor of California) spent his declining years in an apartment there. It once housed the Wells Fargo office.' -- Mrs. Sterling was one of those who changed Olvera Street from a disreputable alley to a popular tourist attraction in the 1920s and led to the current project to rebuild the area around into a replica of the old Mexican 'Pueblo De Los Angeles.' -- 'I had always hoped that the Sentous Building would be included in the city, county and state's plans to restore the Plaza area. But it looks like another part of our past is going to be carried away in a truck.' -- So, yesterday, her rebozo over her head, Mrs. Sterling nailed a three-foot diameter wreath on the floor of the old Sentous Building. " -- Examiner clipping (article by Jack Massard) attached to verso, dated 13 August 1957. Photograph depicts woman with shawl draped over her shoulders placing a wreath on the door of a three story building at 617 North Main Street. Signs on the building include S. Nepus Imports MA 2071, El Rey Machine & Manufacturing Company, El Rey Mills, Aldezma Shoe Repairing and Oriental Employment Agency at 619.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Asset Metadata

Title Sentous Building, 617 N. Main St., Los Angeles, 1957

Subject buildings (subject), Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- S (file heading), Massard, Jack (subject), Pico, Pio, Governor (subject), Plaza (subject), Sterling, Christine, "Mother of Olvera Street" (subject), Tourist Attraction (subject), Wells Fargo (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 617 North Main Street (roadway), Aldezma Shoe Repairing (manmade features), California (states), El Rey Machine and Manufacturing Company (manmade features), El Rey Mills (geographic subject), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Olvera Plaza (city or populated place), Oriental Employment Agency (manmade features), S. Nepus Imports (manmade features), Sentous Building (manmade features), USA (countries)

Geocoordinate -118.23668,34.05614 (point), -118.23692,34.0597 (point), -118.23711,34.05471 (point), -137.28114,32.49452 (point)

Temporal Subject 1957-08-13

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1957-08-13

Creator Los Angeles Examiner (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3343

Identifier 3-1275-02806-2579 (barcode), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-503 (filename), examiner-m4404 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-90580 (legacy record id), examiner-m3343 (legacy record id), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-503 (original filename), Subjects 318 (print box)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 90580

Unique identifier UC11733265

Legacy Identifier EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-503.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.0 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
33.1 cm × 40.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961