There goes the L.A. City Nerd, living up to his name again. The 'Nerd follows up on our post last week on the 1933 Civic Center plan with an amazingly researched post of his own, highlighting several more doomed Civic Center proposals through the years.
Some of 'em would have finally given Los Angeles a real civic center. (Most didn't take into account the Hollywood Freeway, however.)
Others, however, well... thankfully they never went anywhere. Like this ill-conceived proposal from 1940. Check out that tiny building, stuck on an island of land, dwarfed by a massive semi-circle of county buildings.
That's what this proposal would have done with the Plaza Chuch (also known as La Placita, or Our Lady Queen of Angels). Yikes.
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