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Title
Santa Barbara Avenue, Leimert Park
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1948
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.
All of these commercial structures are still standing.; Santa Barbara Avenue was renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in 1983.; From 1981-1999, actress Marla Gibbs operated Marla's Memory Lane at 2323 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, in the former Memory Lane restaurant seen here.
Looking northeast across Santa Barbara Avenue at 3rd Avenue (right) in Leimert Park. Seen are a Foster and Kleiser billboard for Signal Gas, various businesses (center and right), a chiropractor's office, Memory Lane restaurant (right of center), and streetcar tracks.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;13 x 18 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00104401
Blackstock Negative Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b47_f4_i11
CARL0005243626
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/117469
Subject
Memory Lane (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Streets--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Restaurants--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Office buildings--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Commercial buildings--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Signs and signboards--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Street-railroad tracks--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Billboards--California--Crenshaw (Los Angeles)
Advertising--Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Street lighting--California--Los Angeles
Pedestrians--California--Los Angeles
Palms--California--Los Angeles
Santa Barbara Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Leimert Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Crenshaw (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Blackstock Collection photographs

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