The recent wind storms hit the Sunset-Vine Tower hard, stripping the vacant building -- best known as the collapsing skyscraper in the cheesy 1974 disaster flick "Earthquake" -- of its protective cover.
With the white cover gone, it's easy to see that the entire building has been gutted. Probably makes sense: The Sunset-Tower has been uninhabited since December 2001, when a fire shut the place down. Another fire hit the tower in May 2005.
Built in 1963, this skinny 20-story building-- at the corner of Sunset and Vine, natch-- was the first skyscraper built in the city after Los Angeles repealed its 14-story building height limits.
More recently, it was also home to the 360 restaurant/bar, which offered up amazing views of the city from the building's top floor, and several radio stations. But the Tower was evacuated after the 2001 fire, when an electrical room in the basement was destroyed. It hasn't been occupied since.
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