Sentous Building, 617 N. Main St., Los Angeles, 1957

Photograph. "Mrs. Christine Sterling (arrow) nails black wreath on door -- For some people, old buildings should just get older and never die. That's how Mrs. Christine Sterling, so-called 'Mother of Olvera Street' feels about the old Sentous Building at 617 North Main Street. -- Yesterday she received word that the 77-year-old building would be torn down for a parking lot. -- 'It's like tearing out a page of our history,' Mrs. Sterling sighed in her house on Olvera Street. -- 'For awhile, Governor Pio Pico (the last Mexican governor of California) spent his declining years in an apartment there. It once housed the Wells Fargo office.' -- Mrs. Sterling was one of those who changed Olvera Street from a disreputable alley to a popular tourist attraction in the 1920s and led to the current project to rebuild the area around into a replica of the old Mexican 'Pueblo De Los Angeles.' -- 'I had always hoped that the Sentous Building would be included in the city, county and state's plans to restore the Plaza area. But it looks like another part of our past is going to be carried away in a truck.' -- So, yesterday, her rebozo over her head, Mrs. Sterling nailed a three-foot diameter wreath on the floor of the old Sentous Building. " -- Examiner clipping (article by Jack Massard) attached to verso, dated 13 August 1957. Photograph depicts woman with shawl draped over her shoulders placing a wreath on the door of a three story building at 617 North Main Street. Signs on the building include S. Nepus Imports MA 2071, El Rey Machine & Manufacturing Company, El Rey Mills, Aldezma Shoe Repairing and Oriental Employment Agency at 619.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.摄影作品。 配图说明文字：“克里斯汀·斯特林夫人（箭头标注）将黑色花圈钉在门上——对部分人而言，老旧建筑理应随岁月沉淀而非就此消亡。被称为‘奥维拉街（Olvera Street）之母’的斯特林夫人，对位于北主街617号的老森图斯大楼（Sentous Building）正是如此态度。 昨日她获悉，这座拥有77年历史的建筑将被拆除以修建停车场。 “这如同撕去了我们历史的一页，”斯特林夫人在奥维拉街的家中叹息道。 “曾经，加利福尼亚最后一任墨西哥裔总督皮奥·皮科（Pio Pico）在此公寓度过晚年，这里也曾是富国银行（Wells Fargo）的办公场所。” 斯特林夫人是20世纪20年代将奥维拉街从一条声名狼藉的小巷改造为热门旅游景点的推动者之一，并促成了当前将该区域重建为老式墨西哥‘洛杉矶普韦布洛（Pueblo De Los Angeles）’复刻区的项目。 “我一直希望森图斯大楼能被纳入市、县及州政府的广场区域修复计划，但如今看来，我们过往的又一段记忆即将被卡车运走。” 因此昨日，斯特林夫人将雷博佐（rebozo，墨西哥传统女性披肩）披在头上，将一个直径三英尺的花圈钉在了老森图斯大楼的门面上。 该内容出自1957年8月13日《考察家报》（Examiner）的剪报，由杰克·马萨德（Jack Massard）撰文，附于照片背面。 照片内容为：一名肩头披巾的女性正在北主街617号一栋三层建筑的门上安放花圈。建筑外招牌包括：S. Nepus进口公司（S. Nepus Imports）MA 2071、埃尔雷机械制造公司（El Rey Machine & Manufacturing Company）、埃尔雷纺织厂（El Rey Mills）、阿尔德扎鞋铺（Aldezma Shoe Repairing）以及位于619号的东方职业介绍所（Oriental Employment Agency）。 场景为街景，采用横向摄影构图。