800 S Olive St, Los Angeles (Commercial Exchange Building)

I discovered this spot during a Midnight Ridazz group bike ride as it was one of the rest stops.

View: 10 out of 10. Epic and beautiful view of downtown. This above picture is from the parking lots roof.

Accessibility: Very easy. Enter from the parking lot entrance pictured below (Google how to get to 800 S Olive St, Los Angeles) and go up 10 floors or so.

Enter from this parking lot entrance and walk up to the roof of the lot.

When you get to the roof of the parking lot, you have the option of going up five more floors and to the rooftop of the adjacent building (known as the Commercial Exchange building built in 1904). You could easily jump onto the short wall and go through the windows. They don’t have any glass on them. You need some sort of light, though, like a flash light or cell phone light. Then walk to the back and you’ll find stairs. It’s five floors to the roof and an even more all encompassing view than the panoramic picture above.

The walls on the inside of the abandoned building is full of random art.

If you step out onto the fire escape just in front of the main street, you’ll see this massive COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE sign.

Rob

WTF? Why are you giving out the exact point of access openly online?
- http://www.antranik.org/ Antranik
  
  To piss you off? I don’t know, what’s the problem? It’s a parking structure, and an abandoned building. Who gives a flying fuck? Apparently you do, but why?
  - Rob
    
    I care. And so do all the people that have been going there for the past few years. About the destruction that is. Listen 6 months ago there wasn’t a tag on the building. You could walk in there and find newspapers from the 1930s. It was about walking into a time capsule. Now every floor is tagged up and most things smashed. Not that it wasn’t a mess before. But the previous destruction had been caused by decades of decay. With windows busted out and people taking the fire escape down to street level and leaving it, it’s only a matter of time before it is sealed permanently.
    - http://www.antranik.org/ Antranik
      
      I am flattered you think it’s because of my website that people are destroying the place. Sorry, that’s just ridiculous to put the blame on me. It’s out of my control what people do with anything. Also, get used to change. Nothing is forever. Everything dies.
      - Rob
        
        Well, it’s sealed up all nice and tight now thanks to you,
      - http://www.antranik.org/ Antranik
        
        Change is the only constant in this world. The time you are on this earth is infinitisemally small in the real of things. We’re alive for one long moment, and we’re dead in the next. This is life. Get used to it. You’re welcome.
http://nrek.co nrek

For what it’s worth — I’ve been shooting from up here for about a year, on and off, and the inside of the building itself has been covered in graffiti for at least that long; not to mention the broken things. A good portion of the building’s doors, etc are still intact and it’s still an adventurous place to walk through and discover.
Rt213

wow, please everyone, post all your photos of the interior so I can prosecute, just kidding, really cool, please post all you have of the art work before this building becomes more condos. At one time, just needed fire sprinklers to stay open…
Thenightridazzz

Fuck you and your philosophical shit stupid burnout.
Eat a bag of dicks,you fucking hipster. It’s very rare you find places like this,its better to keep it a gem of the old world that go out and tell everybody about it so it can increase unwanted attention. You speak about short life and all that jazz…do the world a favor and don’t ruin the experience for everyone else. The Midnight Ridazz community is disappointed over the discovery of this post and the discovery of the sealed window. Go live your “short life” ruining someone else’s experience,you pretentious moist cunt.

We hope we don’t see you on our rides,this is a total breach of trust amongst peers and the community. Asshole.
- http://www.antranik.org/ Antranik
  
  have you finished crying yet?
DAteammMSK

So u the foo that got this placed locked up. Ima remember you forsure.
- http://www.antranik.org/ Antranik
  
  good bro, cause i won’t remember you, that’s for sure.
  
  why should i remember someone living on such a low, primal, fucking idiotic level of thinking?
DAteammMSK

ur a burn foo.
Essunn

Wow.
Dickhead.
Tried it

I checked this place out and should have read the comments to realize it is boarded up tight as a drum with steel. However it wasn’t a complete waste. There are still some decent views from the roof of the parking structure and no one was up there to bother me while I did some photography for about 30 minutes.

800 S Olive St, Los Angeles (Commercial Exchange Building)

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