The most interesting part of Los Angeles 2007 was the most
interesting part of Los Angeles in 1917

The Mandel Building was constructed ninety years ago for the Coulter Dry Goods Company. The neighborhood was lively even then. The building's first neighbors were vegetable stands and delicatessens.

In 1934, Arrowhead magazine described the store's founder, B.F. Coulter, as a man who had "great and justified confidence in the future of Los Angeles."

The building celebrated the company's fifty years of success and embodied Coulter's faith in the future. It's a faith we share.

Note the roof's decorative cornice, distinctive brick piers capped by terra cotta shields, the first story frieze, the pleasing horizontal bands of windows, and the elegantly rounded corner