6 responses to “Ruins of the Columbia Savings Bank”

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   Savings

   January 18, 2010

   Piece of local history…got to move on..a better, bigger building should be on it, imo.

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   carter

   January 16, 2010

   Good riddance.
   Piece of garbage architecture, and the building, because it was built as nearly single-purpose, is nearly impossible to re-adapt to any other useful, rent-paying use.
   Glad to see it go, although not thrilled at all by what is planned to replace it.
   This property should be developed at least 8 or floors tall, keeping it in line with that nice building on the NE corner, with the current Asahi sign, formerly Mutual of Omaha.
   Not sure it should be all residential except for the ground floor though. Would think office uses upstairs would make more sense.

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   jeff

   January 15, 2010

   feck – you already said on the flickr page

   “(1965-2010)The Columbia Savings building was designed by architect Irving Shapiro and completed in 1965. ”

   when i see buildings with such short life spans, i wonder to myself what the people who built it would say say in 1964 or 1965 if i went back in time and “guys, this is gonna be demolished in 2010”

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      abh1wordpress

      January 16, 2010

      The 1965 people were busy demolishing Penn Station in NY and destroying LA’s bungalows and old homes while they were ramming freeways through historic neighborhoods and bulldozing orange groves.

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   jeff

   January 15, 2010

   great photo

   why was it demolished? when was it built?

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      abh1wordpress

      January 15, 2010

      Click on the link to the photo and you will find another link to the LA Conservancy that explains this building’s beginning and end.

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