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Title: Lucca Cafe, exterior
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: View of the two-story facade of the Lucca Cafe, at 501 So. Western Avenue in Los Angeles. A woman is ready to cross the street, and behind her a family (?) strolls past the nearby storefronts. "Lucca" is written in large letters on the second story, as well as a huge sign atop the building. An automobile has paused at right, although the stoplight says "GO." Photograph taken on December 21, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00008722
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 3059; A-009-286 4x5; A-009-794 4x5
CARL0000010192
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1787
Subject: Lucca Cafe (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles
Restaurants--California--Los Angeles
Western Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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