Title supplied by cataloger. View of 7th Street, west from Hill Street. For decades, 7th Street was a thriving and busy shopping street, traversing all of the major named streets in Downtown. Some of the historical buildings pictured in this photograph are, on the left: Union Oil Building, built in 1922 by Curlett & Beelman; Bullock's, founded in 1907 by John G. Bullock; the R.D. Bronson Desk Co., self-proclaimed as "The only exclusive dealers in Office Furniture in Los Angeles". And pictured on the right side: the Hotel Lankershim, a large tripartite building erected in 1905 by one of Los Angeles' wealthiest and largest landholders in the state of California, Col. James B. Lankershim and designed by architect, Robert B. Young. The Hotel Lankershim, one of the last additions to the Los Angeles' hotel list and filled with everything that could in any way render it a perfect dwelling place, was yet another early 20th century landmark which is now gone, having been demolished after one of the earthquakes in the 1980s; and seen in the far distance on the right is Cooper, Coate & Casey Dry Goods Co., owned and operated for 38 years by Harry B. Coate. Photo dated: 1913.
Bullock's (Department store) Cooper, Coate & Casey Dry Goods Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hotel Lankershim (Los Angeles, Calif.) R.D. Bronson Desk Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.) Union Oil Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Central business districts--California--Los Angeles Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles Department stores--California--Los Angeles Hotels--California--Los Angeles Bullock, John G.,1854-1939 Coate, Harry B Lankershim, James B Young, Robert Brown,1855- Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Seventh Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Curlett & Beelman
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