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Art Deco Separated at Birth #13 – Peace Hotel Entrance & Lounge
Two views of Shanghai’s spectacular Peace Hotel. From 1997, the original lobby check-in area (you can just make out a luggage cart at lower right) and from 2015 where the original lobby is now a lounge. Looks like the clock did not survive … 
Art Deco Separated At Birth #12 – Gates
Some “French” Art Deco metalwork, only not in France.
Art Deco Separated at Birth #11 – Outdoor Lighting
Some Art Deco Separated at Birth installments require close inspection. Not this one.
Art Deco Separated at Birth #10 – United Artists Theaters
In 1986, I took a shot of the Four Star Theater on Wilshire Boulevard in L.A. And then, something strange happened….
Art Deco Separated at Birth #9 – Joseph W. Harris House, Berkeley, California
I think a photo dating from when the house was built, alongside how it looks today makes for an interesting comparison.
Art Deco Separated at Birth #8 – Lamb & L.M. Persons Houses
I realized I had seen this Art Deco house before, in an ad for Insulux glass block.
Art Deco Separated at Birth #7 – East Finchley Station & Pepperdine University
Here we have two fine examples of Streamline Moderne, each sporting not one, but two cylinders.
Art Deco Separated at Birth #6 – The 5th Avenue Theater
This good thing about documenting things over many years is that you have a record of how they were. Sometimes, it’s a bad thing as well.