10341 Venice

There’s this building in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles at the corner of Motor and Venice. Today, there is an Army Surplus store in it, and driving by it you’d never notice anything exceptional about it.

Like so much of interesting LA, it started out life in the 1920s, originally serving as a bank building. According to LALife.com the structure dates back to 1923.

At the entrance, there are two points of interest:

1. Jayne Russell wrote her name in wet cement there in 1935.

2. The name of the long-gone bank is etched in granite as you cross the threshold.

I imagine there’s a fascinating history in and this building’s construction and early days.