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Tossing in another out-of-order non-landmark entry with post #475 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Central Jail

318 West 1st Street

Finished in 1896 as the rear wing of the police headquarters, this multi-tiered brick cellblock facility was linked via an upper passage known as the “Bridge of Sighs.” Vacated in 1946 due to chronic overcrowding, the rusticated structure remained a booking station before mid-century modernizations.

More info:

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
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Staying with the out-of-order non-landmark locations for a bit longer: post #471 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Blair’s Café (Sunshine Bakery)

716 South Grand Avenue

Nestled along a busy downtown commercial corridor, this mid-century diner (depicted with Sunshine Bakery signage in game) catered heavily to transit commuters and local office workers. Characterized by its narrow, recessed glass storefront layout, it offered late-night steak and seafood staples.

More info:

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Still bouncing around in this internal backtrack with post #470 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Bunker Hill Auto Park (Ben’s Auto Parks)

221–225 South Hill Street

Opened during the interwar era, this lot (joined to the Hill Street Vehicle Yard to its south in the game and depicted with Ben’s Auto Parks branding) provided surface parking for Bunker Hill commercial activity, processing traffic flowing from the adjacent tunnels and nearby civic buildings.

More info:

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Still running out of alphabetical order on these, since I’ve recently discovered a boatload of real-world locations I missed, thanks in no small part to the astonishing mapping efforts of u/MountainManUIM. In any case, here’s post #467 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Biltmore Theatre Newsstand

520 West 5th Street

Positioned directly beneath the prominent marquee of the historic Biltmore Theatre, this active open-air sidewalk stand captured dense theater district foot traffic. It functioned as an asset-rich transit node specializing in theatrical playbills, local daily papers, and entertainment gazettes.

More info:

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Another out-of-order *non-*landmark entry: post #466 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Baker Shoes

625–629 South Broadway

Built in 1911, this four-story brick and concrete commercial block served as a major retail anchor. Featuring a sleek, modernized storefront tailored for high-volume foot traffic, the structure housed the regional flagship offices and mercantile showrooms for a prominent West Coast footwear company.

More info:

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Continuing the out-of-order *non-*landmark entries: post #465 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

August L. Korn Block

714 West 6th Street

Constructed during the district’s early commercial development, this masonry facility housed a prominent high-end apparel importer and fashion salon. The building features elegant showroom windows designed to attract affluent transit riders traversing the Hope Street corridor.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Continuing with the out-of-order *non-*landmark entries: post #462 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Apablasa Playground

Interior Block of Macy, Main, Spring, and Ord Streets

Constructed in 1926, this small mid-block civic playground served the dense residential core of Old Chinatown. The unpaved surface lot featured standard metal recreational equipment and perimeter fencing, offering an open community space steps from the bustling industrial corridors.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Continuing with another out-of-alphabetical-order *non-*landmark entry: post #461 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Alhambra Hotel

338 North Broadway

Erected as a six-story reinforced concrete block, this transient hub famously moved 122 feet north in 1924 to clear space for the Hall of Justice. Later serving as the Municipal Court building, the structure provided public civil spaces right against the edge of Fort Moore Hill.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Continuing with the Central Library sub-locations, here’s post #458 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Central Library Service Yard

730 West 5th Street

Built in 1947 to accommodate the growing need for staff and patron parking, this lot — extending from the existing service garages to Flower Street — replaced a grove of Lombardy Poplar trees that had been planted in memory of longtime Board of Library Commissioner member Frank Hervey Pettingell.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Continuing this internal backtrack with post #457 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Central Library Garden Terrace

515 West 5th Street

This elevated, low-walled terrace balances the building’s asymmetrical footprint along the 5th Street façade. Planted with formal shrubbery and Italian cypress trees, the terrace features a dedicated public staircase providing direct exterior access to the Art and Music Department.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Continuing our little backtrack-within-a-backtrack with another recent discovery for post #455 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Baltimore Annex Building

505–507 South Los Angeles Street

Abutting the southern wall of the Baltimore Hotel, this three-story brick commercial building features street-level retail bays with wide display windows. The upper stories are utilized for light industrial storage and wholesale operations, matching the dense utilitarian character of the surrounding textile district.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Backtracking within the backtracking for a sec, with a few brand-new discoveries (well, not new discoveries so much as newly discovering they were real-world locations), along with a few sub-location entries. So here’s post #454 for theLA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Alpine Playground Swimming Pool

755 North Bunker Hill Avenue

This municipal plunge opened in the early twentieth century to provide inner-city youth with a dedicated aquatics facility. Managed by the Los Angeles Department of Playground and Recreation, the public pool fell into disuse and was eventually filled following mid-century neighborhood changes.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Another out-of-order *non-*landmark entry: post #452 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Civic Center Auto Park

100 South Hill Street

Operating on the former site of the Victorian Highland Villa, this terraced surface parking lot served as a crucial transit hub for the Civic Center. Bordered by a massive concrete retaining wall along the sidewalk, the auto park managed heavy commuter vehicle volume before its demolition in 1954.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Another out-of-order location today: post #451 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Central Theatre

314 South Broadway

Opening around 1929, this 562-seat movie house was a retail space conversion inside a 1900 masonry building. The functional venue served as an action-film grindhouse, featuring a modest storefront entry nestled below the main hotel flats. (The game depiction omits the theatre marquee.)

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Still going with the out-of-order *non-*landmark entries: post #450 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Central Auto Park (Alaco)

307–345 West 1st Street

Replacing the demolished 1898 Tajo Building, this multi-lot facility (depicted with Alaco branding in-game) framed the municipal courts. Managed under the System Auto Parks banner, it combined open-air vehicle staging with independent corner fuel service to capture heavy civic center traffic.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Still running through the “late discovery” *non-*landmark entries with post #449 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Canadian Bank of Commerce

645–649 South Spring Street

Completed in 1912, this classical three-story financial structure features a monumental temple-front façade dominated by giant columns. Serving as the Los Angeles branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, the granite-clad building stood as a prominent fixture in the Spring Street financial district.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Throwing in a recent *non-*landmark entry (in fact one I just found and confirmed yesterday): post #448 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Belmont Apartments

948–956 South Figueroa Street

This six-story brick apartment-hotel was originally erected in 1910 as the luxury Ivins Apartments. The building underwent a severe structural truncation along its southern edge to accommodate the municipal widening of Olympic Boulevard, leaving a modified multi-family residential footprint.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Another out-of-alphabetical order *non-*landmarks entry: post #447 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Boston Dry Goods Building

237–241 South Main Street

Completed in 1895 by the architectural partnership of Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt, this Romanesque Revival brick commercial block features a rustic stone-clad foundation. The multi-story property initially housed the Boston Dry Goods Store before transitioning into retail use.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Still out of alphabetical order as I catch up with newly discovered locations (because if I don’t post them now, I’ll forget about them later, since I’m working through these on my master list). Post #446 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Astor Auto Park

800–808 South Main Street

This independent, attendant-staffed surface lot managed short-term vehicle storage. The paved tarmac accommodated downtown retail shoppers, theater patrons, and daily office commuters on the block.

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site

Another out-of-order *non-*landmark entry: post #445 for the LA Noire Freeroam Explorer Project — posting locations replicated by Team Bondi for LA Noire (currently touring the downtown area) that are not considered landmarks (either official or historic) but do have real-world equivalents.

Associated Oil Co. Olympic & Flower Station (Alaco)

1000 South Flower Street

This corporate service station supplied Flying A petroleum products to commuters leaving the financial center. The facility featured multi-pump islands and dedicated mechanical bays to manage transit lines. (The game uses Alaco branding for this station.)

Real-World Businesses and Points of Interest on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site
Interactive LA Noire Touring Map on the LA Noire Fandom Wikia site