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Description
Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a view of Main Street looking north from the top of a building near 6th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917. Hotel Rosslyn (center) towers above other buildings on the street. Several similar-sized buildings stand adjacent to the hotel. Rooftops of shorter buildings in the foreground are visible. The street is busy with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Many early-model cars are parked along the street. Legible signs include: "[...]00 modern rooms, [...] a day and up, transient, Hotel Green", "drink Coca-cola, delicious & refreshing", "Optic", "Thos. H.B. Varney", "coming!, Erving Berlins, international syncopated musical success", "watch your step", "A Ragtime Riot with 75 people, musical com[...]", "Montana Bar", "Burlesque", "Omar Theatre", "money to loan on anything, what have you?", "517, United Loan & Jewelry Co.", "Eastside Beer", "H. Rapha[...]", "Colyear's, furniture -- carpets -- stoves, storage, packing, shipping", "511, 504, Colvear's", "barber shop", "women's and men's clothing cleaned, pressed and altered while you wait, room 3", "United cigars", "The Palace bowling and billiard parlor", "Hotel Leonide", "Southern Cal. Wine Co.", "5th & Main Drug", "Canadian Office Bldg.", "San Fernando Office Bldg.", "Harper & Reynol majestic ranges", "Higgins building, absolutely fireproof", "C. Wesley Roberts Co. Bldg., agents, investments, office of bldg. Room [...]03", "Isaias W. Hellman building, [...] Main St. -- 124 W. 4th St.", "Van Nuys hotel", "drugs", "Harvard", "Schiffman dental office", "Oriental Café", "buttermilk", "New Hotel Rosslyn", "Title Insurance building", "Security building", "secured trust & savings".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Irving Berlin Omar Theater Hotel Green Colyear's Furniture Los Angeles--Streets--Main Street--4th to 6th Streets Theaters Hotels, taverns, etc Burlesque (Theater) Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1917
Place
-118.24512,34.04919 -118.24759,34.04662 -118.24815,34.04626 -118.24858,34.04723 5th Street & South Main Street California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Rosslyn Hotel Hotel Leonide Hotel Green Colyear's Furrniture Omar Theater Canadian Office Building H. Raphael C. Wesley Roberts Building Oriental Cafe Title Insurance Building Security Trust and Savings Palace Bowling Isaias W. Hellman Building San Fernando Building USA
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