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Description
Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of a banner advertising summer concerts at Hollywood Bowl (Albert Hertz, Conductor) flying over Broadway at West Seventh Street in Downtown Los Angeles, ca.1924. A Frank Mayo film is showing at Loew's State Theater. The Sun Drug Company is across the street, underneath the "painless" Parker Dentist at 706 South Broadway. Legible signs include: "Hollywood Bowl summer concerts, July 8 to Aug. 31, Alfred Hertz conductor", "[...]ate", "the woman on the jury - 14 stars, knickerbocker syncopators", "Frank Mayo", "Kay & Orchestra", "painless Parker den[tistry]", "dentist".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--Broadway--6th to 7th Streets Stores, Retail Roadways
Time Period
circa 1924
Place
-118.24854,34.04951 -118.25241,34.04503 -118.25271,34.04494 -118.25264,34.04518 California Downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles South Broadway West 7th Street USA
Source
1-2-154 [Microfiche number] 9015 [Accession number] CHS-9015 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-79 [Identifying number]
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