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Description
Facing north at Broadway and Temple Street in the Civic Center of Downtown Los Angeles. Above the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) stands a Prohibition billboard which reads: "Prohibition: the Best Method Against Liquor Traffic." Also shown: the Alhambra Apartments, Riley's Drug Company, and two Los Angeles Railway streetcars, one leaving and another one entering the Broadway Tunnel. Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Downtown Prohibition Billboard Pacific Electric Streetcars
Time Period
1939
Place
34.055744,-118.243588 Broadway Temple Street California California, Southern Downtown Los Angeles Civic Center Los Angeles USA Women's Christian Temperence Union (WCTU) Broadway Tunnel Alhambra Apartments Riley's Drug Company
Source
DW-B5-50B-15 [Call Number] University of Southern California [Contributing entity] isla id: S-23; isla id: 11 [Identifying Number]
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