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I missed my bus stop, got off at the next one, and since it was an express, had to walk back quite a ways. I was rewarded for my exercise by finding a benchmark; luckily I had my camera with me. The designation of this NGS benchmark is H 774 and its PID, which I managed to look up later, is EW1649. Scaled coordinates are 34° 03.967 N, 118° 22.867 W (NAD 83).
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I don't know what he number "749" stands for, maybe a point ID for a local surveying project. It helped me find the BM, though. According to the datasheet, when it was set in 1945, it was in the top step of a pedestrian underpass, at sidewalk level. The underpass is long gone as of February 2010.
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It's on the south side of Wilshire Blvd. between Willaman and Hamel, on the sidewalk close to the curb.
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