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Title: Christmas shopping crowd at 7th and Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 21, 1935
1935-12-21
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Life Marches on in Shopping Throngs," Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec 1935: A4.
A large crowd waits to cross the intersection at 7th and Broadway while a rail car passes. Signs on the lamp post point to Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, Bay District, Beach Road North, San Diego, Coast Route, Whittier, Santa Ana, Oceanside, and La Jolla.
Handwritten on negative: Christmas shopping crowd at 7th + Bdwy 12-21-35
Text from newspaper caption: Broadway Crowd Poised for Traffic Bell, Shopping thousands thronged downtown streets yesterday. Here is a segment of a Broadway crowd poised for the crossing bell at Seventh-street intersection. The gift trade is brisker than in years.
Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 4169--- Xmas Shopping Crowd at 7th + Bdwy 12-21-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13178
ark:/21198/zz002hnb36
Language: English
Subject: Shopping--California--Los Angeles
Street signs--California
Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles Railway
Broadway (Firm)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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