Looking West from East Manzanares Street near the Val Verde location (not yet built)
on the right is Loewensteins store On the left is the Knights of Pythias Lodge, you can see a part of the Bull Durham sign at the top of the building, you can see a better view in the section South Side of Manzanares Street. In any event this was in the 1880s so it gives one thought to the long lasting paint of that period that it held up so well..that was in the late 1880's.
The building up on Manzanares on the left was where Frank Bernal first had his restaurant, then it was Gambles and Smelser had part of it and then the fine jeweler and watch maker, Joe Herrera. Descriptions for parking lots vary from cultured, that is with plants, or shrubs, or paintings, to the more depressing on this you may take your choice, it was such a beautiful bldg...torn down...progress I guess?
