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Title: Last Berkeley Square residents
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Here are John Jr. (or Jay) Kingsley and Pearl Macomber, who moved into Berkeley Square #14 around 1930. After leaving #14, originally owned by Walter R. Leeds, the Macombers moved to the Talmadge apartment building on Wilshire Boulevard. Pearl died in 1965 and J. Kingsley in 1970. The entire neighborhood of Berkeley Square was demolished to make way for the Santa Monica Freeway.
Photograph caption dated April 1, 1962 reads, "Looking back to the past are the J. Kingsley Macombers, last of the oldtime residents to move out of... [missing]."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00105743
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5702
CARL0005243151
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31121
Subject: Couples--California--Los Angeles
Living rooms--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Interiors--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Televisions
Flower arrangements
Lost architecture--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Berkeley Square (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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