Another old commercial building that was turned into a hipster hotel.
Looking at the website, I see there is a pool on the roof, but I didn’t go up there.
Of course, I love all these cool details. The tile floor, the tile around the windows, the wonderful archway. 
The lobby is small, yet mighty. Where Nomad used exuberant colors, things here are quiet and subdued, yet no less beautiful.
The Bar! I have no doubt that all the tile work here is new since this used to be the lobby of an office building. How wonderful that the designer makes the new loos so old. Not just the tile, all that woodwork!
From inside looking out at 8th st.
This chair! I don’t know how comfortable it is. But the workmanship. There were at least two of these. Once again, I don’t know if the tile on the floor is original or not. I am in love with all the textures here.
It feels like a British colonial club in India. Pay attention to the sign across the street, that intrigued me.
If I just posted this image, you’d say, San Francisco. I do not know if the upstairs are still a hotel. The Golden Gopher is a modern take on the dive bar. Created in 2004, although the website does say that Teddy Roosevelt bought this building and had a bar here in 1905. Who knows?
Right next door to the Golden Gopher is another old building. Hotel Bristol, which is no longer a hotel but low-income housing. What that means in LA, is newly arrived wanna be actors live here. This is what happens in LA, cheap, low-income housing doesn’t go to the low-income non descript workers in this city. It goes to the hipsters. I guess that is just how the market works in this city. It’s not like we don’t have options, it’s just a question of who gets those living spaces.
Leah