Westwood, 1939
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May 30, 1930: United Airport (now Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport) opened on Memorial Day with a 3-day celebration (schedule in PDF format), which included air races, a parade of veterans, blimps, a band concert, homing pigeons & rooftop dancing. The Bob Hope Airport posted a bunch of photos from its archive but this panoramic photo comes from the Huntington Digital Library.
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Los Angeles firefighters in action at 3rd and Broadway, circa 1913
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Picture postcard of the Hollywood Bowl, 1927. The shell depicted here was Lloyd Wright’s first attempt and was dismantled and replaced by his second design, an arched shell which was used for the 1928 season. The iconic current shell was added in 1929 and demolished and rebuilt in 2003-2004.
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The newly finished L.A. County Museum of Art as seen in 1965. Later additions, including Renzo Piano’s BCAM and Resnick Pavilion buildings, have significantly changed the look of the William Pereira-designed campus over the past 48 years.
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Panoramic 1869 view of Los Angeles, showing the Plaza and surrounding buildings.
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From a series of photos documenting the 1924-1925 Los Angeles Bubonic Plague Outbreak, which killed 37 people. Here is Ground Zero of the plague, a grocery store on Clara Street, where the Twin Towers jail now stands.
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Aerial view of Wilshire Boulevard at La Brea, looking north at the Beverly oil fields in the middle distance, and on to Hollywood nestled at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains, 1922.
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This tree outside the Howard & Smith flower shop at Olive and 9th streets attained a height of 134 feet before succumbing to a windstorm in 1915
Learn about the crusade to introduce eucalyptus trees to Southern California with L.A. as Subject’s most recent KCET contribution, “Who Eucalyptized Southern California?”.
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Images of Los Angeles, old and new.
