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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles looking west from Broadway and Eleventh Street, November 21, 1931. The city is shown full of high rise buildings advertising via signs. The Examiner building is visible in the left foreground, its domed roof tiled with terracotta shingles with the Belasco Theatre, Mayan Theatre and Western Pacific Building visible to the extreme right. Automobiles below navigate Broadway, which stretches horizontally across the panorama, and Eleventh, which makes its way up the center towards the mountains in the background. Compares to: CHS-7623. Photo is an image of the center of the panorama during the same year, showing more detail at bottom. Legible signs from left to right include: "Western States Life Protection", "Los Angeles County Free Exhibit", "Southwestern University", "Professional Courses in Law, Business [...] Acounting [...] and Secretarial [...]", " Union Oil Dag / Union Gasoline / Union Ethyl / Complete Lubrication", "The Store Where Bargains Reign", "Texaco", "L.A. Wheel and [...] Specialists", "Hotel Plesanton 1120 So. Grand Ave", "Oakland and Pontiac Motor Cars", "Firestone", "Dorothy Apts.", "Wagner Woodruf Building / Lighting Fixtures", "Home of the Western Auto Supply Co. 1100 So. Grand Ave", "Willys Distributors Inc. / Willys Knight Automobiles and Trucks / Willys Sixes Eights", "Earl V. Lewis Co. Kodak Finishing Dept. / Leave Orders Here / Will A. Kistler Company / Printers Lithographers Engravers / 215 W. Eleventh St. / Westmore 8636", "Hardy Park Economy", "Three Delicious Aunt Jemima Pancakes for 1 Cent!", "Le-Co. Flag Rental Service", "Belasco Theatre / Los Angeles Finest Legitimate Play House", "American Mortgage Company", "Curtiss Baby Ruth Candy and Gum", "Red Cap Candy", "Old Gold", "La Vida", "Winslow B. Felix Commercial Car Dept.", "The Wade Apartments", "Hydrill", "K I Packard", "Telephone Garage", "Inside Parking Day and Night / Auto Repairing / Brake Specialist / Richfield", "Western College of Aeronautics", "Cadillac LaSalle / All Makes of Used Cars", "Pacific Desk Company / Desks Tables Chairs / T.F. Pierce Pres.", "Ford / William L. Hughs[...]on", "Shell Downtown Service Garage / Repairing Storage Washing", "Richfield and Richlube", "McKinney's Blueprints and Photocopies", "Hotel Ritz", "Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation", "Dagmar Apartment Hotel", "A.B. Cohn and Bro.", "Hotel St. Paul", "Barker Bros. Complete Furnishers of Successful Homes", "Hotel Trinity 350 Rooms Moderate Prices / Absolutely Fireproof / Trinity Auditorium / Concerts Lunches Recitals", "Rotographs", and "A.C. Horn Co.'s Waterproof Coating".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographs
Los Angeles--General views (1920-1958) Newspapers Views Southwestern University Los Angeles Herald Examiner Keystone Photo Service Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Belasco Theatre Mayan Theatre Cities
Time Period
1931-11-21
Place
11th Street & Broadway, looking west California Los Angeles USA
Source
7642; 7643; 7644 [Accession number] CHS-7642; CHS-7643; CHS-7644 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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