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Title: Olympic Boulevard and Rio Vista Avenue
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
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.
Looking east down Olympic Boulevard from just west of where it crosses Rio Vista Avenue (right, not visible) in Boyle Heights. Seen are a Foster and Kleiser billboard for the 1949 Ford, a large used car lot, Swally's restaurant and Pelton's service station. The eastern portion of the decorative Olympic Boulevard Bridge is visible on the left. Photograph dated November 11, 1949.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;13 x 18 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00104357
Blackstock Negative Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b47_f2_i42
CARL0005204035
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/117399
Subject: Swally's (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Restaurants--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Used car trade--California--Los Angeles
Used cars--California--Los Angeles
Service stations--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Signs and signboards--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Street-railroad tracks--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Billboards--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Ford automobile
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Olympic Boulevard Bridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Blackstock Collection photographs

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