Evolution through time of Los Angeles California

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1896 Downtown Los Angeles



1924 Pacific Electric Subway from Glendale Boulevard to Fourth Street



1924 Long Beach steam plant on Terminal Island



1925 Pacific Electric Subway from Glendale Boulevard to Fourth Street



1925 Pacific Electric Subway from Glendale Boulevard to Fourth Street





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1938 Roadway



1938 Rose Gardens at Exposition Park



1938 Rose Gardens at Exposition Park



1938 Rose Gardens at Exposition Park



1938 Rose Gardens at Exposition Park





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Terminal Island is an island located in Los Angeles County, California between the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor. Major parts of the Port are on Terminal Island, as well as the Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island.


The island was originally called "Isla Raza de Buena Gente"[1] and later "Rattlesnake Island." It was renamed Terminal Island in 1891.

The island was home to about 3500 first and second-generation Japanese prior to World War II in an area known as East San Pedro or Fish Island. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor all of the adult issei males on Terminal Island were incarcerated by the FBI on February 9, 1942. Immediately after the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 the rest of the inhabitants were given 48 hours to evacuate their homes. They were subsequently sent to internment camps and the entire neighborhood was razed. The Japanese community on Terminal Island was the first to be evacuated and interned en masse.

Because of the relative geographical isolation of the island, the citizens developed their own culture and even their own dialect. After World War II, the Terminal Islanders settled elsewhere. However, in 1971, they formed the "Terminal Islanders Club". Since its formation, the members have organized various events for the members. In 2002, the surviving second-generation citizens set up a memorial on Terminal Island to honor their parents.

In 1927 a civilian facility, Allen Field, was established on Terminal Island. The Naval Reserve established a training center at the field and later took complete control designated the field Naval Air Base San Pedro (also called Reeves Field). In 1941 the Long Beach Naval Station became located adjacent to the airfield. In 1942 the Naval Reserve Training Facility was transferred and a year later NAB San Pedro's status was downgraded to that of a Naval Air Station (NAS Terminal Island). Reeves Field as a Naval Air Station was disestablished in 1947, although the adjacent Long Beach Naval Station would continue to utilize Reeves Field as an auxiliary airfield until the late 1990s. A large industrial facility now covers the site of the former Naval Air Station.

During World War II Terminal Island was an important center for defense industries, especially ship building. It was also, therefore, one of the first places where African-Americans tried to effect their integration into defense work on the West Coast.

In 1946, Howard Hughes moved his monstrous Spruce Goose airplane from his plant in Culver City to Terminal Island in preparation for its test flight. In its first and only flight, it took off from the Island on November 2, 1947.

The west half of the island is part of the San Pedro area of the city of Los Angeles, while the rest is part of the city of Long Beach. The island has a land area of 11.56 km2 (4.46 sq mi), 2,854 acres (11.55 km2), and had a population of 1,467 at the 2000 census.

The land area of Terminal Island has been supplemented considerably from its original size. For instance, in the late 1920s, Deadman's Island in the main channel of the Port of Los Angeles was dynamited and dredged away and the resulting rubble used to add 62 acres (0.097 sq mi) to the Southern tip of the island.

The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach are the major landowners on the island, who then lease much of their land for container terminals and bulk terminals. The island also hosts canneries, shipyards, Coast Guard facilities, and a Federal Correctional Institution.

The Long Beach Naval Shipyard, decommissioned in 1997, occupied roughly half of the island. Sea Launch maintains docking facilities on the mole that was part of the naval station.

In 1909 the newly reincorporated Southern California Edison Company decided to build a new steam station to provide reserve capacity and emergency power for the entire Edison system - and to enable Edison to shut down some of the small obsolete steam plants in the system. The site chosen for the new plant was on a barren mud flat known as Rattlesnake Island - today's Terminal Island in Long Beach Harbor. Construction of Plant No.1 began in 1910.

Terminal Island is connected to the mainland via four bridges. To the west, the distinctively green Vincent Thomas Bridge connects Terminal Island with the Los Angeles neighborhood of San Pedro. It is the fourth longest suspension bridge in California. The Gerald Desmond Bridge connects Terminal Island to downtown Long Beach to the east. The Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge joins Terminal Island with the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington to the north. Adjacent to the Heim Bridge is a rail bridge called the Henry Ford Bridge or the Badger Avenue Bridge.






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1938 Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital Boyle Heights, picture taken in 2007



1938 Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital Boyle Heights, picture taken in 2007



1938 Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital Boyle Heights, picture taken in 2007




1938 Sea going firemen



1938 The Moon Festival




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1938 Silverlake North



1938 Skid Row



1938 Lowe's State Theater



1938 Panoramic view of the city at night



1938 Fox Carthay Circle





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Skid Row


Exactly one week after Chuck D and Flava Flav ruled the stage at Gladys and 6th, Lucius Smith is packing up his bag and leaving Skid Row… for the 110 Freeway underpass.

“It’s alright, if you find a good place to sleep,” said Smith with his ‘Silverdome’ on his back as he walks up 5th towards Los Angeles. Silverdome backpack tents are sold at stores such as Sears, according to Smith, and at $29.95 it is his “big ticket purchase”.

“Honestly, I come down [to Skid Row] to eat, but I sleep elsewhere,” Smith went on, explaining that “it’s alright if you find a good place to sleep.”

Smith has been homeless for six months. He played Sudoku as he walked, pausing only to remove his glasses should I ask for a picture.

So where is a good place to sleep?

“Oh, you know,” he began. “A place where there’s not too many people around. It’s quiet. Not too much cars. Nobody can kick you while you sleep. You wanna be safe.”

Smith claimed to be in talks to move into a low-income SRO project near Downtown. But between mounting bills for medication (he’s been HIV positive since 1984—“I’ve been lucky so far, but one cold, poof”) and the sudden loss of his long-time friend to AIDS have left him, suddenly, jarringly, falling without a net.

“I’d known that guy about 20 years,” said Smith of his friend as voice cracked. “But we’d had our apartment seven years. The death of that person really, really got to me…I still think about that person every day.”

The fact that Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to a lot of homeless people is hardly news. Likewise, its struggles with crime and drugs have also been covered at length (when Foursquare has a check in point called the Skid Row Crack Stop, you know the knowledge is universal).

But many residents wear the area’s reputation like a badge of honor and are quick to emphasize that most of them are there because of circumstance.

“Let me invite everyone down to Skid Row, the world’s largest recovery community,” said Kevin Michael Key, a member of the Los Angeles Poverty Department Theater Troupe. “Drugs and alcohol—there’s a multitude of treatment facilities but there’s a difference between treatment and recovery. Recovery happens out in the street.”

Key himself is a Skid Row resident and a “recovering lawyer—a member in good standing of the other bar.”

“But,” he added, “you also got women escaping domestic violence situations. You have disabled veterans who served their country and then can’t find housing. People who are recovering from a state of homelessness. This is a community. We take people in and comfort them.”

Much like Betty Wilson and Juanita Woods.

“I work in West L.A., make $550 a month… all that go straight to the hotel,” complained Wilson, throwing up her hands in disgust. “There no refrigerator there. But,” she allowed, “at least I got a wonderful nice manager.”

Wilson is originally from Arkansas. She’s been in L.A. three years, and is now staying at the Cottonwood Hotel, “7th and Tahoe.”

“I came here because my mother got sick,” she explained, “and she been dead three, four years. But L.A…I mean, it alright.”

“I don’t like LA!” her friend Juanita cut in. Juanita hails from Greenville, Mississippi and has been in LA five years, hopping from South Central to Inglewood, to the sidewalks of 5th Street.

“If someone help me move away, I’d have no problem moving. I go to church. I’m a Christian. I believe in God. I got a husband, a wonderful husband, and kids. No one that come through here from outside realize that.”

Wilson just shook her head and added, “I just want me a refrigerator.”








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1938 Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital Boyle Heights, picture taken in 2007



1938 State Building



1938 Street scene in Chinatown



1938 Street scene in Chinatown



1938 Streetcar accident





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Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Silver Lake is a hilly neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, United States east of Hollywood and northwest of Downtown Los Angeles.

Silver Lake is inhabited by a wide variety of ethnic and socioeconomic groups, but it is best known as an eclectic gathering of hipsters and the creative class. Silver Lake also contains some of the most famous modernist architecture in North America. The neighborhood is named after Water Board Commissioner Herman Silver.

Silver Lake is bordered by Atwater Village to the north, Echo Park to the east, Echo Park's Historic Filipinotown to the south, Virgil Village to the southwest, East Hollywood to the west and Los Feliz to the northwest. Silver lake blends into Elysian Valley on its eastern edge.


The neighborhood was named for Water Board Commissioner Herman Silver, who was instrumental in the creation of the Silver Lake Reservoir, located within the neighborhood.

In the community of Silver Lake lies the namesake reservoir composed of two basins, with the lower named Silver Lake and the upper named Ivanhoe. The lower body of water was named in 1906 for Water Board Commissioner Herman Silver, and in turn lends its name to the neighborhood. The upper body received its name after the 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel Ivanhoe.

The reservoirs are owned and maintained by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), and currently they provide water to 600,000 homes in downtown and South Los Angeles. At capacity, they hold 795 million gallons of water. The Silver Lake Reservoir's water resources will be replaced by an underground reservoir in Griffith Park, slated for completion in January 2015.

The reservoir is surrounded by a recently completed jogging path that measures to 2.2 miles around the reservoir. The reservoir is also home to three parks, the Silver Lake Dog Park, the Silver Lake Recreation Center and the Silver Lake Meadow (opened April 2011). The Silver Lake Recreation Center contains numerous facilities including indoor and outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts and offices for local amateur sports teams.

During the 1930s, Walt Disney built his first large studio in Silver Lake at the corner of Griffith Park Boulevard and Hyperion Avenue, now the site of Gelson's Market. As consequence, the name "Hyperion" is of great significance to the Walt Disney Company, with many company entities carrying the name, such as Hyperion Books and the Hyperion Theater in Disneyland. A few blocks away on Glendale Boulevard was the studio of Tom Mix. The location is now occupied by the Mixville shopping center. It is rumored that Mix buried his steed "Tony, the Wonder Horse" on the property.

The neighborhood is crisscrossed by numerous municipal staircases that provide pedestrian access up and down the neighborhood's signature hills. Among these are the Descanso Stairs, Redcliffe Stairs and the Music Box Stairs. The famous flight of stairs in Laurel and Hardy's film The Music Box are located between lower Descanso Drive and Vendome Street, as it winds up and around the hill. Gentrification has intensified in the neighborhood, including the opening of many stylish independent boutiques, coffee shops, fitness studios, and restaurants.

As of 2010, Silver Lake is represented by Los Angeles City Council Members Eric Garcetti and Tom LaBonge and the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. The Silver Lake Neighborhood Councilwas formed in the early 2000s and certified a part of the City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Council system in February, 2003. Its 21-member Governing Board is elected for two-year terms in March. Recent projects have included 'Street Medallions', created by artist Cheri Gaulke, and 'ArtCans' created by several different artists and groups.

The Silver Lake Residents Association, Silver Lake Improvement Association, Silver Lake Reservoirs Conservancy, the Silver Lake Chamber of Commerce, and Neighbors for Peace and Justice are all active in the area.

Since the 1990s, Silver Lake has become the center of the alternative and indie rock scene in Los Angeles. The neighborhood is home to two major street festivals each year: the Silver Lake Jubilee, held in May and the Sunset Junction Street Fair, held in August. The Silver Lake Jubilee, a more recent addition, features live music by local musicians, local artists and community businesses.

The Sunset Junction Festival features larger, national musicians and has been the home of musicians such as Andrew McMahon, Autolux, Beck, Beth Hart, Bon Harris, Bret McKenzie, Chuck Ragan, Cold Cave, Darker My Love, Dum Dum Girls, Earlimart, Eels, Elliott Smith, The Elected, Eulogies, Giant Drag, Irving, Jane's Addiction, Joey Waronker, Karen O, Local Natives, Lou Barlow, Mia Doi Todd, Pavement, Piebald, Porno for Pyros, Possum Dixon, Moving Units, The Shore, Henry Rollins, Rilo Kiley, 8 Bit Weapon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roddy Bottum, Scarling., Sea Wolf, The One AM Radio, Tom Waits and Imaad Wasif.

The band Silversun Pickups took its name from the strip mall at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Silver Lake Boulevard. Since the indie rock music scene is particularly prominent in this neighborhood, comparisons are often drawn between Silver Lake and New York City's Williamsburg district. As a result, it is sometimes referred to as the "Williamsburg of the West". Silver Lake is the setting of the song "From Silver Lake" by Jackson Browne, as well as the song "Sleepless in Silver Lake" by the band Les Savy Fav. Dangerhouse Records was named after a house located on Carondelet Street.

Dangerbird Records was founded in and is currently located in Silver Lake. Silver Lake has also been the home of independent record label Epitaph Records for many years now. Since 2004, Avatar Records has been headquartered in Silver Lake on Hyperion Avenue and UK indie Beggars Group moved next door to Avatar in 2011.

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1938 Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street



1938 Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in 2010





1938 Tail O The Pup





1938 Taking a lunch brake Los Angeles



1938 Watts residence





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1938 Terminal Annex Old Post Office Building crew



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office now in 2005



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office, picture taken in 1965



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1938 Terminal Annex Post Office



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office, picture taken in 1965



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office, picture taken in 2007



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office, picture taken in 2008




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1938 Terminal Annex Post Office



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office, picture taken in 1965



1938 Union Pacific tracks



1938 Union Station


1938 Two firefighters burned







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1938 Terminal Annex Post Office now in 2005



1938 El Encanto Patio



1938 Theater Hawaiian Gardens, picture taken in 2004




1938 Traffic jams



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Southern California's romance with the automobile owes in large part to resentment of the Southern Pacific Railroad's tight control over the region's commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During his successful campaign for governor in 1910, anti-Southern Pacific candidate Hiram Johnson traveled the state by car (no small feat at that time). In the minds of Southlanders, this associated the automobile with clean, progressive government, in stark contrast to the railroads' control over the corrupt governments of the Midwest and Northeast.

While the Southern Pacific-owned Pacific Electric Railway's famous Red Car streetcar lines were the axis of urbanization in Los Angeles during its period of spectacular growth in the 1910s and 1920s, they were unprofitable and increasingly unattractive compared to automobiles. As cars became cheaper and began to fill the region's roads in the 1920s, Pacific Electric lost ridership. Traffic congestion soon threatened to choke off the region's development altogether. At the same time, a number of influential urban planners were advocating the construction of a network of what one widely-read book dubbed "Magic Motorways", as the backbone of suburban development. These "greenbelt" advocates called for decentralized, automobile-oriented development as a means of remedying both urban overcrowding and declining rates of home ownership.

Traffic congestion was of such great concern by the late 1930s in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that the influential Automobile Club of Southern California engineered an elaborate plan to create an elevated freeway-type "Motorway System," a key aspect of which was the dismantling of the streetcar lines, to be replaced with buses that could run on both local streets and on the new express roads. In the late 1930s when the freeway system was originally planned locally by Los Angeles city planners, they had intended that there were to have been light rail tracks installed in the center margin of each freeway (these would presumably have carried Pacific Electric Railway red cars), but this plan was never fully implemented



During World War II, transportation bottlenecks on Southern California roads and railways convinced many that if Southern California was to accommodate a large population, it needed a completely new transportation system. The city of Los Angeles favored an upgraded rail transit system focused on its central city. However, the success of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, built between Los Angeles and Pasadena in 1940, convinced many that a freeway system could solve the region's transportation problems. Leaders of surrounding cities, such as Whittier, South Gate, Long Beach, and Pasadena, accordingly called for a web of freeways to connect the whole region, rather than funneling their residents out of their own downtowns and into that of Los Angeles. Pro-freeway sentiments prevailed, and by 1947, a new comprehensive freeway plan for Los Angeles (based largely on the original locally-planned 1930s system, but without the light rail tracks in the median strips of the freeways) had been drawn up by the California Department of Public Works (now "Caltrans"). San Diego soon followed suit, and by the early 1950s, construction had begun on much of the region's freeway system.

By the 1970s, many cities in the United States, including Los Angeles, were experiencing widespread freeway and expressway revolts,[3] there was significant political opposition[citation needed] and the 1973 oil crisis raised fuel prices dramatically. Growing interest in mass transit resulted in reduced funds being available for freeway construction. The tax revolt of the time also reduced the resources available for infrastructure development[citation needed] and California Proposition 13, which was enacted in 1978, also reduced funds available for highway construction.[citation needed] The 1982 Surface Transportation Assistance Act mandated that a some 11% of the Highway Trust Fund should be used for mass transit schemes. The Century Freeway, which opened in 1993 following widespread community opposition, is likely to be the last freeway built using traditional funding.

Overall, only 61% of the freeway miles proposed in the 1954 master plan were built (as of 2004) with a number of key freeways left incomplete or un-built; the Long Beach and Glendale freeways were not completed and the Laurel Canyon and Beverly Hills freeways were never started. Other routes which presented expensive engineering challenges (e.g. the Angeles Crest and the Decker Freeways) were also dropped. The result was a system with gaps and bottlenecks.

By the 1970s, many cities in the United States, including Los Angeles, were experiencing widespread freeway and expressway revolts, there was significant political opposition[citation needed] and the 1973 oil crisis raised fuel prices dramatically. Growing interest in mass transit resulted in reduced funds being available for freeway construction. The tax revolt of the time also reduced the resources available for infrastructure development[citation needed] and California Proposition 13, which was enacted in 1978, also reduced funds available for highway construction.[citation needed] The 1982 Surface Transportation Assistance Act mandated that a some 11% of the Highway Trust Fund should be used for mass transit schemes. The Century Freeway, which opened in 1993 following widespread community opposition, is likely to be the last freeway built using traditional funding.

Overall, only 61% of the freeway miles proposed in the 1954 master plan were built (as of 2004) with a number of key freeways left incomplete or un-built; the Long Beach and Glendale freeways were not completed and the Laurel Canyon and Beverly Hills freeways were never started. Other routes which presented expensive engineering challenges (e.g. the Angeles Crest and the Decker Freeways) were also dropped. The result was a system with gaps and bottlenecks.

After a deep recession in the early 1990s caused by the collapse of the defense industry at the end of the Cold War and the closure of naval bases, Southern California began to grow again in the latter part of the decade. As in many other cities with rapidly growing populations, the region's infrastructure has had difficulty in keeping up. Traffic congestion in Los Angeles is the worst in the nation, and has been the worst since at least the early 1980s. However, even in the face of the state budget crisis of the early 2000s, plans have been drawn up to radically expand the region's transportation network to accommodate population growth that has already swelled the region's population to 17 million (as of the U.S. Census of 2000) and may see it grow to 25 or even 30 million in the coming decades. Environmentalist sentiments, high fuel prices, and the dearth of available land may result in future development taking a pattern along the mass transit-oriented lines of the "smart growth" school's recommendations.

Beginning originally in the 1970s, a variety of factors, including environmental concerns, an increasing population, and the high price of gasoline, led to calls for mass transit other than buses. In 1976, the State of California formed the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission to coordinate the Southern California Rapid Transit District's efforts with those of various municipal transit systems in the area and to take over planning of countywide transportation systems. The SCRTD continued planning of the Metrorail Subway (the Red Line), while the LACTC developed plans for the light rail system. After decades, the wheels of government began to move forward, and construction began on the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system in 1985. In 1988, the two agencies formed a third entity under which all rail construction would be consolidated. In 1993, the SCRTD and the LACTC were finally merged into the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority which constructed subway lines and which today continues to construct new light rail and rapid transit lines.

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1938 USC coach Howard Jones (left) demonstrates blocking technique on wrestling champ Strangle Lewis



1938 West Adams district unemployment committee



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1938 Westjoy Dance Studios, picture taken in 1997



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1938 Terminal Annex Old Post Office Building crew



1938 Wilshire Boulevard



1938, CBS Radio Playhouse



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1938, Hollywood Hotel





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1938 Secretary typing



1938 Terminal Annex Post Office



1938 The Tom Gubbins Asiatic Costume Company333



1938 Trolley accident at Jefferson Boulevard



1938 Two firefighter suffered burns





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1939 Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center, picture taken in 2011 0351



1939 Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center, picture taken in 2011 0351



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Thanks for all these wonderful pics you have been contributing through the years. I'm really enjoy looking at them.