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Black Friday – the big shopping day the day after Thanksgiving – and out here the sun was brilliant and the sky impossibly blue and the air clean and crisp, fresh off its long trip across the empty Pacific – a good day. And it was a good day for this – the black and gold terra cotta building at Third Street and Western Avenue, built in 1931 as the Selig Clothing Store. It was designed by Arthur E. Harvey and is one of only two black and gold glazed terra cotta Art Deco buildings left in Los Angeles. The other one is down on Wilshire. This one was declared a Cultural-Historic Monument (#289) on September 20, 1985 and once housed a Crocker Bank Branch, but now it's a clothing store again. But as the neighborhood is now mainly Korean, the signs and the shoppers and all the rest are not as before. But it is all gift-wrapped.
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If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back to this site.
Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik
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Counter added Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 11:00 am Pacific Time
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