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Order Number	00067461
Title	9th Street and Grand Avenue
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	L.A.-Streets-9th
Date	1931
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	View of Pacific Drug Co. at 851 South Grand Avenue, corner of 9th and Grand, with Hotel Trinity behind it. A banner hangs above an awning that reads, "Soda fountain is now under new management... Hughes ice cream". Built in 1913 by architect Thornton Fitzhugh, the Hotel Trinity, aka Trinity Auditorium (now known as the Embassy Hotel and Auditorium), was owned and operated by Los Angeles Investment Co. Over the years, it has served as a hotel, a church, a concert hall, and a university residence. When it was the Trinity Auditorium building, three stories were used for church purposes and 325 rooms above that were used as a hotel for men. The 2,500-seat auditorium, boasting as having one of the finest pipe organs in the west, was used by Trinity for church functions on Sundays and was available for rent at other times for concerts, lectures, conventions, etc. In the 1980s, the University of Southern California purchased the building, using it for several years as a residential college. Photo dated: 1931.
Subject	Pacific Drug Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hotel Trinity (Los Angeles, Calif.). Auditoriums--California--Los Angeles. Streets--California--Los Angeles. Hotels--California--Los Angeles. Fitzhugh, Thornton. Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection