Halifax Apartments (Los Angeles, California)

 apartment building, historic landmark

6376 Yucca St
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 463-7486

Opened in 1923, the building was originally owned by Leach Cross, who named it the "Cross Arms Apartments." In the early '80s it was in the heart of where crack cocaine made its first appearance in LA (outside Plaboy Liquors to the West). The single apartments at the time rented for $350 to aspiring actors, musicians, the elderly, and a host of retired character actors. It was also an SRO for the elderly. To get in the building you had to ring a bell in the lobby (still resembling a hotel) and some elderly person opend the door and asked who you were visiting (as if they knew). A sign said no visitors after 10PM. This process was in place to keep out hookers. In recent years it's been renovated and serves as low income housing. It had a beautiful pool, now filled in, which the "U shaped" apartments looked out onto. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.