Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Santa Barbara Avenue (later Martin Luther King Boulevard) looking west from Vermont Avenue, May 26, 1937. This is a view of the street before the removal of poles and the paving of the center section of the street. Tracks run across the street in the foreground and down the two opposing streets that continue into the distance. A trolley car travels along the tracks down the center of the street where electrical poles stand. Cars fill the streets and sit parked along their sides where various shops stand behind lamp posts. Compares to CHS-42158 taken after road work.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--Santa Barbara Avenue (Martin Luther King) Pole Paving Commercial Streetcar Streets Street-railroads Building Electric lines--Poles and towers Automobiles Stores, Retail
Time Period
1937-05-26
Place
-118.29086,34.01402 -118.28736,34.0105 -118.29067,34.00697 -118.29338,34.01049 California Los Angeles Santa Barbara Avenue & Vermont Avenue USA
Source
42157 [Accession number] CHS-42157 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4748 [Identifying number]
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