Title supplied by cataloger. Los Angeles High School was founded in 1873 and is the oldest public high school in the L.A. Unified School District. Construction on this building began on July 19, 1872 at Temple and Broadway (the current site of the Los Angeles County Court House), and the school opened in 1873. In 1891, L.A. High School moved to its second building at a new location on nearby Fort Moore Hill, located on north Hill Street between California (now the 101 Freeway) and Sunset Blvd (now Cesar E. Chavez Ave). In 1917, the school moved once again to what would be its present location at 4650 W. Olympic Blvd. Some notable alumni have included: (Actors) Anne Baxter, Mike Evans, Dustin Hoffman, George Takei, Piper Laurie, Anna May Wong; (Athletes) Pauline Betz Addie, Larry Brown, Lillian Copeland, Cornelius Cooper Johnson, Bob Meusel, Budge Patty; (Authors) Ray Bradbury, Charles Bukowski; (Politicians) Fletcher Bowron, Frederick Madison Roberts; (Attorney) Johnnie Cochran; (Singer) Mel Torme; (Astronomer) Harold D. Babcock; (Inventor) Charles Francis Richter; (Nobel Prize recipient) Willis Lamb; (Historian) Francis J. Weber; (Poets) Charles Bukowski, Josephine Miles; and (Hollywood costume designer) Edith Head, among others. Presently, the Los Angeles High School is a public secondary high school (grades 9-12), with a student body of 3,200. Its colors are blue and white and the school's sports teams are called the Romans. The original Los Angeles High School building, being moved over to Temple Street as a couple of people look on. A man standing at the corner of Temple and Broadway (formerly Fort Street) watches a double trolley traveling by, and two people can be seen exiting the Clifton House on the left. Photograph dated 1886.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 24 cm. Photographic prints
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