Historic Los Angeles

A visual history of Los Angeles

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Three Quintains

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cocktails in cans

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Remembering HEAVEN at the Century City Mall via Alison Martino

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Hollywood Freeway under construction, Los Angeles, 1952

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Hody’s coffee shop at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, 1956.

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1924 The Barker Brothers furniture store in Los Angeles, California, decorated for Christmas. From America in the 1920s, FB.

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1952

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Union Station, Los Angeles, 1939

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Los Angeles, 1977-78 © Manel Armengol

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Smog City / Driving past San Pedro Street in downtown Los Angeles {1965}

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Max Yavno Home Town Papers, Los Angeles, USA,1978 Gelatin silver print

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Pickwick Books opened on Hollywood Blvd. in 1938. Owned by Louis Epstein,  named after Charles Dickens’ classic The Pickwick Papers, and was a book lover’s haunt for movie stars, among others.

(via Water and Power Associates)

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Paper lanterns in Little Tokyo

(via Paper lanterns in Little Tokyo - Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection - Tessa: Photos and Digital Collections)

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(via Street in Venice - Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection - Tessa: Photos and Digital Collections)

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Sunset Hills, Los Angeles, California, April 7, 1985 © Terry Guy

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Drag Racing on the LA River c.1956 

via http://johnstraub.blogspot.com/

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West 2nd Street at Hope Street looking up towards South Bunker Hill Avenue Bunker Hill - Los Angeles (1868-1968)