Crossroads of the World, Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1939.
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View of Broadway looking north from Olympic Boulevard (then Tenth Street), circa 1929. The United Artists Theatre is visible on the left. In the distance behind it is future site of the Art Deco-style Eastern Columbia building, completed in 1930.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
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Unpaved roads, horse carriages and trolleys: looking south on Spring Street from 1st, Los Angeles, 1900’s.
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A horse-drawn food truck in front of the University of Southern California campus in 1910.
Part of the University of Southern California History Collection in the USC Digital Library.
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Northeast corner of Fifth and Spring streets in downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1905.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
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1:54 P.M, downtown L.A.: Pedestrians throng the sidewalks on both sides of Broadway in this north-facing view from Fifth Street, 1925.
Visitors to Chris Burden’s Urban Light may recognize the streetlamp in this photo - it was known as the “Broadway Rose.” They were originally installed downtown in 1920. They measured more than 26 feet high and weighed 8,000 pounds each.
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The Eastern Columbia Building nears completion on the corner of 9th and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, 1930.
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A run on the All Night And Day Bank at the corner of Sixth and Spring in downtown Los Angeles, 1910.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
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Before and after: reconstruction of the Sunset Boulevard overpass at Glendale Boulevard, 1934.
Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.
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L.A. rush hour, 1929 style?
Wilshire and Western on Feb. 10, 1929. Two years later, real estate developer Henry de Roulet, whose office is in the center of the photo, would build the Wiltern Theater and Pellisser Building at the intersection.
At the time, he called it one of the busiest corners in the world.
Photo: Los Angeles Times file
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25¢ haircuts: The Owl Barber Shop, 117 E. 6th Street, downtown Los Angeles, 1959. Located directly across the street from Cole’s Pacific Electric Buffet.
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The historic Hotel Alexandria at 5th and Spring in downtown Los Angeles, 1946. The hotel’s Palm Court ballroom, with its Tiffany stained-glass skylight, has been called “the most beautiful room in Los Angeles.”
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A Pacific Electric street car turns onto Colorado from Lake, on the last day of the line’s operation in Pasadena, October 7, 1950.
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Los Angeles City Hall construction site, 1926. Across Spring Street in the center of the photo is the County Hall of Records and, to its right, the red sandstone County Courthouse.
Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.
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