The apartment house for aging leftists has been on Francis Avenue in Wilshire Center since 1924, housing editors of communist newspapers and surviving friends of socialist writer Upton Sinclair. The Times ran a Column One in March about the home's sagging finances, and today's LAT reports that Sunset Hall will close and its dwindling number of residents will move into a building in Hollywood.
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