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Title: Old and new, Hollywood freeway, 2 views
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A striking comparison of the old and the new, Hollywood Freeway. Two drifferent views. Top photo: taken in 1949, shows Santa Monica Boulevard, with a public auction sale by the State, to clear building from freeway right-of-way. Note El Serrano Apartment building in the background (A). Bottom photo: in foreground, is the new Hollywood Freeway. The El Serrano Apartment building is in the background (A). Photo dated: June 14, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 2 photographs :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041084
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5460C-Hollywood Freeway.
CARL0000045041
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12843
Subject: El Serrano Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Express highways--California, Southern
Buildings--California--Los Angeles
United States Highway 101
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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