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20a Alexandria Hotel (Palm Court) – HCM-80 – NRHP-79000489 – Facade (E)


Image by Kansas Sebastian
Spring Street Financial Historic District No. 79000489
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 80
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Alexandria Hotel (Palm Court)
210 W 5th St
John Parkinson
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Architecturally, the Alexandria Hotel is a boxy commercial block with mild Italian Renaissance Revival detailing. It’s handsome, but doesn’t make much of a statement compared to it’s neighbors. What’s important is the 200-foot-long Palm Court with stained-glass Tiffany skylights. Even in today’s dusty condition, the ballroom is still stunning. Time certainly hasn’t been kind to the Alexandria, now a low-income apartment building. A previous remodel in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s replaced the original Baroque interior wih faux Victorian — for what ever reason.
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– Built in 1906, the eight-story Alexandria Hotel is another building designed by John Parkinson. With 500 rooms, an elaborate wood lobby, and the glamorous Palm Court with its stained glass dome, the Alexandria was the most luxurious hotel in Los Angeles from the time it opened until the Biltmore opened in the mid-1920s.[20] Movie stars and other celebrities, including Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, Rudolph Valentino, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Sarah Bernhardt, Enrico Caruso and Jack Dempsey were guests. Charlie Chaplin kept a suite at the Alexandria and did improvisations in the lobby where Tom Mix reportedly rode his horse.[3][20] The carpet in the lobby was called the "million-dollar carpet", because there was purportedly a million worth of business done there every day.[20] It was there that D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks met in 1919 to form United Artists.[3] U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson,[20] and many foreign dignitaries, including King Edward VIII, also stayed at the hotel while visiting Los Angeles. The hotel declined after the Biltmore opened and closed in 1934, with its chandelier and gold leaf coverng of the mezzanine lobby being stripped and sold.[20] It reopened in 1937 but declined again in the 1950s, become a transient hotel with the Grand Ballroom being used as a training ring for boxers.[20] Today, the Alexandria has been converted to apartments.[21] The Palm Court in the Alexandria was designated a Historic Cultural Landmark (HCM #80) in 1971.

Wikipedia: Spring Street Financial District: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Street_Financial_District
Wikipeda: Palm Court (Alexandria Hotel): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Court_(Alexandria_Hotel)

80′s heels


Image by Chellbie
80′s throwback heels

American Airlines MD-80 parked at gate


Image by Paul_Sch
American Airlines MD-80 waiting at the gate to be boarded on a flight from Fresno to Dallas