I photographed this building when I was a photographer for the GW Hatchet (the school newspaper of George Washington University) back during undergrad. My photos were used for a story about last ditch efforts by local officials to save the structure that were ultimately unsuccessful. It’s weird to think my photos were probably the last ones taken/published of this building before it’s demolition.

Estudios Sonoros Mexicanos (i.e.: Mexican Sound Studios) or ESM, was one of the oldest and first post-production and dubbing companies in Mexico. It was founded in 1960 by Enrique Rodríguez Ruelas, pioneer and sound engineer of Mexican cinema, and his son Enrique Rodríguez López-Montoya, Initially they were dedicated to recording and re-recording audio for 35mm film. In 1968, Julio Macías, a Mexican businessman, dubbing director and actor, partnered with the Rodríguez family to establish the company Sono-Mex Doblajes, due to experience acquired in another dubbing studio known as CINSA, same one that used the facilities of Estudios Sonoros Mexicanos. The company expanded with an additional dubbing studio in Los Angeles, known as Sono-Mex Hollywood (later known as ESM International Dubbing) in 1977. In 1978, after a heated argument between the Rodriguez family and Julio Macias, the partnership was dissolved, with Macias taking over Sono-Mex and the Rodriguez family taking over ESM. In 1982, with Enrique Rodríguez López-Montoya now in charge of the company, he founded Procineas, a new dubbing company that used ESM's facilities until 2005 before moving to a new headquarters and studio, ending the history of ESM and its building. The building remained abandoned for a long time until approximately 2016, when it was demolished. Today, a pharmacy occupies its space.

Note: the image from Google Maps is from approximately 2009, currently no longer available in new versions of Google Maps

Several films and series were dubbed in this building, such as: Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981), The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), Jaws (1975), Texas Across the River (1966), Tumbleweed (1953), A Thousand and One Nights (1945), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Code Red (1981-82), Simon & Simon (1981-89; first season), and Vega$ (1978-81; first seasons)

History, information and image of the building: https://doblaje.fandom.com/es/wiki/Estudios_Sonoros_Mexicanos

The main avenue that runs through the center of the current municipality of Pabellón de Arteaga, Aguascalientes, in 1945, part (at that time) of the municipality of Rincón de Romos. Much of its architecture was planned (since the town was established in 1929) as part of an American settlement (established by the American construction company J. G. White) during construction from the Plutarco Elias Calles dam in the town of San Jose de Gracia, the streets were already defined after the settlement was withdrawn following the completion of the dam, many of the photo establishments were demolished to make way for new buildings, leaving very few stores and shops still standing. Another example is the statue of Benito Juárez (replaced by a clock tower) or the Francisco I. Madero Garden, currently the main square of the municipality.

1-. Information and photo taken from: https://www.facebook.com/share/1EXTUGqeqt/ 2-. (Probably) current location where the photo was taken in 1945: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Qj74ijmXWZShd3aP7

Built in 1894, survived WWII and ultimately destroyed by communists in 1969 to gave way to a new road.