Bel-Air, TEL. OX-1175: The newly built Sunset Boulevard gates of the exclusive subdivision in 1932.
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Orpheum Theater #4.
There were four theaters named Orpheum. The first at 125 S. Main Street; the second at 227 S. Spring Street; the third at 630 S. Broadway; and the fourth at 842 S. Broadway.
Circa 1966.
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001 - L.A.T.L. 5 Line Car 1409 Eagle Rock & Colorado Blvds. 19550126 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1409 on Line 5 at Eagle Rock Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard. January 26, 1955.
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I know this bar well, have polished off many a Cosmo there - AKBAR in Silver Lake!
(Source: peneelane)
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Los Angeles Union Station in photographs, past and present. Please check out the entire gallery at http://thesource.metro.net/2013/04/12/union-station-past-and-present-in-photographs/
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The Watts Riot, 1965 — Lawrence Schiller
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The E. Clem Wilson Building located on the northeast corner of Wilshire and La Brea.
Circa 1930.
Now has a giant SAMSUNG sign on it.
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Pee-Wee Merman. Big Adventures in LA. Culver City, CA.
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Bill Cosby, photo by Dennis Hopper, 1965
(Source: franny-squalor-glass)
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pann’s, los angeles, california
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First few shots from a series of timed exposures taken late one night on a wander in Downtown LA.
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Downtown L.A. looks a bit different now: Here’s Los Angeles City Hall as seen from Bunker Hill in 1960.
Photo: Los Angeles Times
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Angels Flight ferrying passengers up and down Bunker Hill, seen in its original location at 3rd and Hill on a sunny day in the late 1950’s.
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