Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view of Hollywood Boulevard at Wilcox Avenue, showing automobiles and commercial buildings, 1953. Hollywood Boulevard fills the foreground of the image and recedes into the center background, with streetcar tracks striping its length. Parked automobiles line both sides of the street, while other automobiles and a streetcar occupy the lanes in the distance. One- and two-story commercial buildings sit to each side of the street. Wilcox Avenue intersects Broadway in the right centerground. Legible text, from left to right, includes "Dr. Cowen Credit Dentists", "Winthrop", "Karl's Shoes", "Iris", "Have a Coke. Coca-Cola", "Kress", "You Give, They Live", "Beauty by Frank and Joseph", "Watson's", "Youngs Shoes for Men", "Cinerama. Lowell Thomas, Merian C Cooper. Cinerama Presentation".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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