Thank you for enlarging the photo of the dapper gentleman shown here. He's so well turned-out. It would be interesting to juxtapose a photo of a man from the present with this man, showing the enormous difference in their appearance.

I took this picture sometime before demolition, most likely in the late 1990s. Some architectural features had already been removed. I had trouble getting far enough back to get a picture at the time. This building spent its last years as Central Junior High School. Its replacement was also demolished.

And the future is not gambling. Below is the intersection today. South Ohio Ave is on the left and Pacific Ave on the right. I found a photograph taken from down South Ohio, looking this way. In that photo, the school is still on the corner, and the Claridge and Ballys hotels are beyond (swing to your right). In the more current Street View, Claridge Chicken on the ground floor is for lease; Ballys is losing windowpanes; and the parking lot that replaced the high school is for Caesars Entertainment Human Resources Center. The 'C' in Caesars has fallen off.

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