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 a view of Western Avenue looking north from Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1926. The intersection of the two streets fills most of the foreground of the photo, while automobiles drive along Western Avenue further in the distance, which is lined to either side by high-rises and commercial advertisements as well as telephone poles on the left, and street lamps on the right. The Maylord Apartments building was built in 1920, and, as of March 2018, it still there, located at 1250 South Western Avenue. A woman is on a sidewalk bench to the left, underneath an Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce sign. Other legible signs include: "[...] Baker / [...] Years of Faithful Service / 13 Stores", "Bus Stop", "Stop", "Burton & Co.", "West Coast Uptown Theatres", "Talking Pictures", "Big Golden Halves [...]", "Maylord Modern Apartments", "Fitzsimmons Grocery Stores", "Cash & Carry / Men's Suits Dresses", "1116 World Cleaners & Dyers", "[...] Laundry", "Kodak's-Kodak Finish [...]". One print is dated "1924".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--Western Avenue Maylord Apartments Advertisement Billboard Bus Stop Streets Apartment houses Roadways
Time Period
1921/1931
Place
-118.30812,34.04931 -118.30677,34.04708 -118.30811,34.04578 -118.30938,34.04717 -118.30827,34.09081 -118.30735,34.04943 -118.30809,34.04673 -118.30885,34.04938 Burton and Company Realtors Cash and Carry Dresses and Men's Suits Fitzsimmons Grocery Store Italian Inn Maylord Modern Apartments Stern Drug Company West Coast Uptown Theatre California Los Angeles Country Club Park Hollywood Hills Koreatown USA Western Avenue & Pico Boulevard mountains: Santa Monica Mountains
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