View of the junction of Spring Street and Main Street, as seen looking north from 9th Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. There is a two-story brick building at the center of the photograph, where Spring (left) and Main (right) meet. South junction of Main & Spring Sts. L.A. Cal. 141"--text, in margin. Title transcribed from item; date approximated by cataloger based on general appearance of image. Background notes: "Powell" Kern (also called Paul Kern) came to L.A. in 1854 and owned the property at the junction of South Main and Spring streets, between Eighth and Ninth. He erected a two-story brick building -- in the lower part of which he had a grocery and a saloon, and in the upper part of which he lived. (Source: "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark," The Knickerbocker Press, 1926.)
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