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everything worth seeing in los angeles: then and now by kat bee @katbeee // instagram

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How Echo Park celebrated Valentine’s Day in 1927:

Helen Jean Leonard and Geraldine Leisure, sit on a table surrounded by crafts made by the children of Echo Park playground. The crafts were made at a Valentine party and were on exhibit at the park.

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Today it’s home to the futuristic Westin Bonaventure Hotel, but here’s how the northwest corner of Flower and Fifth streets looked in 1927.

Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.

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She-Devil in a Bathing Suit: Halloween fun on Venice Beach, 1936.

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621 Figueroa Street Tunnels, Los Angeles, California.

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HERO STATUS

-Gabby

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Specification Motor Oil station, Washington and 8th Avenue, Los Angeles.

Circa 1920s.

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Depending on which side of the street this building was on, this is now a parking lot, a mini mall, a kitchen supply warehouse or a school.

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Fireworks over LACMA, 1965

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Main Street, Downtown Los Angeles, 1920s

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Hoot-Hoot I Scream was an actual structure built in 1927 on Valley Blvd in Rosemead. The head rotated; the eyes, made from Buick headlamps, blinked; the sign used elements of a theater marquee. After the war, the Hoot-Hoot Cafe was demolished.

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Hollywood freeway (101), 1950s

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Capitol Records building under construction, Hollywood, 1955

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Hollywood Palladium, 1940s

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Red Car passing by Echo Park Lake, 1954

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Top: Melrose and Richelieu Hotels on South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles.

Middle: Victorian home at West 3rd Street and South Bunker Hill Avenue.

Bottom: Three more Bunker Hill Victorian homes viewed standing on Flower Street north of Court Street, facing east toward the Civic Center.

All demolished.

Circa 1957.

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Night owls at the counter of Spencers Snack Shop, Los Angeles, 1949.

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The Beverly Hills Hotel, 1950s.

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Echo Park in 1895: Snow-capped peaks in the distance and rolling countryside all around.