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Title
View of Hollywood Boulevard at Wilcox Avenue, showing automobiles and Karl's Shoes, 1953
Creator
Birch, Steve (or Will?)
Date Created and/or Issued
1953
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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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
Identifier
chs-m3402
USC-0-1-1-3474 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31285
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3402
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31285.jpg
Subject
Cinerama
Karl's Shoes
Los Angeles--Hollywood--Streets
Streets
Commercial sites
Time Period
1953
Place
California
Hollywood Boulevard
Wilcox Avenue
Hollywood
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-31-274 [Microfiche number]
31285 [Accession number]
CHS-31285 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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