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 north on Broadway from the Chamber of Commerce Building, 1927. Tall buildings can be seen on both sides of the street, which runs from bottom center towards the background. Signs reading, "Western Pacific Building", "New Orpheum Building. Joe Toputzky Co. Agent", "New Orpheum. America's Finest Theatre Presenting Exclusively Orpheum [?] World's Greatest Vaudeville", "908 S. Broadway L.L. Burns [?]", "Radio Supply Co. 912-14 So. Broadway", and "Radio Supply Co." A cut-out sign on top of a building at right reading "Sunday Examiner" in backwards letters is visible. Street cars and automobiles can be seen traveling underneath flags draped across the street. A parking lot filled with similar-looking cars is visible at bottom right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints negatives (photographic) photographs
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