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Title: Western Avenue and Adams Boulevard
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
Publication Information: Foster and Kleiser Company
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The structure occupied by Smith's Fine Food For Less has since been demolished.
Looking northwest up Western Avenue, just south of of where it crosses W. Adams Boulevard (right). Present are the Riccardo Apartments (left), Smith's Fine Food For Less grocery store and a Foster and Kleiser billboard promoting iced coffee posted outside the store. Photograph dated June 26, 1941.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;13 x 18 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00104405
Blackstock Negative Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b47_f4_i15
CARL0005269165
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/117488
Subject: Riccardo Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Smith's Fine Food For Less
Streets--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Billboards--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Apartments--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Parking lots--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Advertising--Coffee--California--Los Angeles
Grocery stores--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Stores & shops--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Sidewalks--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Signs and sideboards--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Lost architecture--California--West Adams (Los Angeles)
Adams Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Western Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
West Adams (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Blackstock Collection photographs

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