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Title: Empty Broadway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
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: Photograph included in the exhibit: "Signs of Life : Los Angeles is the City of Neon."
Broadway at night on May 7, 1946, during a transit strike, with not a trolley in sight at 9:00 p.m., effectively killing downtown night life.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00022471
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 226; HE-001-854 4x5
CARL0000025742
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8998
Subject: Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Strikes and lockouts--California--Los Angeles
Neon signs--California--Los Angeles
Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs
Time Period: 1941-1950

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