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Old December 2nd, 2006, 09:15 AM   #1
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Historical Los Angeles

i love the library!

some interesting photos:

broadway, glendale 192o


venice beach 192o


dodgers stadium construction 1961


pacific electric subway cars


resenda blvd from devonshire


ventura blvd in sherman oaks 191o-192o


venice beach "bathing beauties"


los feliz blvd in atwater village, 192o


flooded street interesction, 6th and mariposa 192o


courthouse and hall of records


hall of records


7th and broadway


6th street bridge


wilshire


ocean peirs


broadway and 6th


hill and 3rd 1978


bunker hill homes 1969


forced eviction of chavez ravine 1959


chavez ravine 195o


garfield and slauson 1941


view from city hall 193o


bellevue terrace hotel 6th and figueroa 19oo


santa monica beach 19oo


allameda street flood 19oo


glendale 19oo


san fernando valley 19oo


los angeles befor 19oo


the port of los angeles 19oo


pasadena 19oo


los angeles 189o


...thats it for now
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Old December 2nd, 2006, 10:14 AM   #2
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wow Broadway was a busy street back then.
Nice photos especially the hall of records
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Old December 2nd, 2006, 10:53 AM   #3
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Things use to be so close to the beach
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Old December 2nd, 2006, 07:31 PM   #4
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I like this thread...
MORe Pics

Below the hand drawn Arrow The beverly hills Hotel and below wilshire
Is los angeles speed way



Wilshire Coffe Pot 1938




UCLA




seen looking east toward Lafayette Park.


west Lake park

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Old December 3rd, 2006, 05:40 AM   #5
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West Lake Park?
Gee, LA was a really nutty city back then!
Damn LA is really a new city as in "infant".
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Old December 4th, 2006, 10:35 AM   #6
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West Lake Park?
Gee, LA was a really nutty city back then!
Damn LA is really a new city as in "infant".

Westlake Park...before Wilshire split it in half and before the war that made a hero of a certain Army general that would eventually become its new namesake.
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Old December 5th, 2006, 09:39 AM   #7
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Thanks, 'botox. I would have lived here then...



Angelenos made something out of nothing and continue to do so...
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Old December 6th, 2006, 07:07 AM   #8
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The Hall of Records so far is the best building LA has destroyed.
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Old December 6th, 2006, 09:06 AM   #9
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"Botox" I understand you've made it into a tradition to spell words incorrectly, but Los Ageles???
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Old December 7th, 2006, 05:27 AM   #10
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"Botox" I understand you've made it into a tradition to spell words incorrectly, but Los Ageles???

^ Oh brother......
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Old December 6th, 2006, 09:13 AM   #11
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thats true i just noticed that!!
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Old December 6th, 2006, 09:35 AM   #12
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wouldnt be the first time... do mods edit titles?
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Old December 7th, 2006, 05:37 AM   #13
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Find some construction pictures (dtla skyscrapers). Those are hard to find.
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Old December 7th, 2006, 07:43 AM   #14
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will do!... or maybe joey can help
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Old December 7th, 2006, 07:59 AM   #15
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this one may have already been done,
staples center 1999


richfield towers 1970

...and there parking


2oo figueroa 1968


dodger stadium 196os


hollywood freeway 1953/1951



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Old December 7th, 2006, 08:03 AM   #16
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this one may have already been done,
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That had to be before 1999; Staples opened in late summer 1999.

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That's originally the Crocker National Bank Building built in 1968/69, now I think it just goes by its Grand Avenue address now.
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Old July 30th, 2007, 08:23 AM   #17
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great thread & photos here. one correction....

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richfield towers 1970
this actually arco plaza aka city national plaza - paul hastings tower & city national tower. see #19. LA central library can be seen to the right, and 611 Place to the right of that. acro plaza is also on the board here: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=56750

this is the former site of Richfield Tower (1928/29-1968), the building I was looking for when i found this thread. I was wondering exactly where the Richfield Tower was on this block, and where the other buildings in this photo were. I'm also turning up very few pictures of Richfield Tower. As far as it's only appeared in one film, Zabriskie Point (1970), which must have been shot just before the tower's destruction.


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this one is 611 Place - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/611_Place, circa 67, probably before the destruction of Richfield (behind 611 in this photo). To the immediate right is LA Central Library, and to the right of that is the current location of US Bank Tower.
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Old December 7th, 2006, 08:08 AM   #18
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griffith observatory 1933


not downtown but still cool
baldwin hills reservoir 1951


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Old December 7th, 2006, 08:39 AM   #19
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bunker hill [no date]


bullock's department store
7th and broadway 1906


7th and Olive 1917


the death star 2003


equitable savings bank 1906


coliseum [no date]


aliso st. viaduct 1942


union station 1937


hyatt hotel 1972


6th and grand 1965


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water and power 1964


ARCO towers 1970


longest girder in southern california 1940


jonathan club? 1924


union station 1938


vincent thomas bridge 1962


bunker hill 1970


arco towers [no date]


bunker hill 1981


...i think im gona break the library's server. no more pictures
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