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Title: Highland Avenue
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
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 Art Deco commercial building and the Mobil service station have since been demolished.
Looking north up Highland Avenue, with streetcar tracks, from just south of Franklin Avenue (upper right). Seen north of Franklin Avenue are the Highland Tower apartment building, an Art Deco commercial building (occupied by a cleaners, Wonder Super Market, and Cut Rate liquors), homes in the Hollywood Hills, and a Foster and Kleiser billboard for Sun Maid raisins; south of Franklin Avenue is a Mobil service station. Photograph dated November 20, 1944.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;13 x 18 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00104368
Blackstock Negative Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b47_f3_i11
CARL0005238588
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/117461
Subject: Highland Tower (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sun Maid Growers of California
Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Apartments--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Signs and signboards--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Commercial buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Grocery stores--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Stores & shops--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Cleaning establishments--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Liquor stores--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Billboards--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Service stations--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Raisins
Advertising--Food--California--Los Angeles
Lampposts--California--Los Angeles
Street lighting--California--Los Angeles
Sidewalks--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Street-railroad tracks--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Bus stops--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Franklin Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Highland Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Blackstock Collection photographs

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