Newsflash from the Past: TAKE TO HILLS IN A SCARE. Deluded Los Angeles Molokane Will Move Tomorrow for Fear of Quake. Los Angeles Times (October 14, 1906) There will be an exodus of the Molokane from Los Angeles tomorrow. The 2000 or more [Russian] colonists will begin their trek from the city early in the […]
A pictorial look at Los Angeles in the Roaring 20s! Above photo: A traffic jam in 1920. A vintage 1920s postcard of Los Angeles’ “Busy Broadway.” The view looks south from 6th Street. The 500 block of S. Broadway in 1920. The Chocolate Shop moved from its original location on Fifth Street […]
Bizarre Tales: Bombs Ready for Autographs War Bond and Stamp Buyers Offered Thrill at Retail Stores Today LOS ANGELES TIMES (July 17, 1942) — Buy a bond and autograph a bomb or shell! If you would like to have the thrill of knowing your name is on a bomb or shell destined for the enemy, you […]
Los Angeles Then and Now: 8320 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Top Photo: Rainbo Motel, built in 1953. Bottom Photo: Sunrise Motel
Los Angeles – Southern California photos from the 1910s. Above: the intersection of Fourth and Main, no later than 1917. The Hotel Lankershim, (230 West Seventh Street). The bottom postcard probably dates to around 1910, the year of the Los Angeles International Air Meet, which was the first major air show in the United […]
A collection of Los Angeles homes in the 1910s. The above photo was taken in 1912. A neighborhood drive, c. 1912. A couple stands outside their home at 4210 D South Vermont, c. 1910 – 1913. A bedroom in Pasadena, CA, circa 1913. A woman waters her lawn in 1915. A […]
Sixth-street Park, now Pershing Square, in 1888. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is in the background. History of Pershing Square Back in the 1850s, settlers camped on an undeveloped parcel of land near Los Angeles’s original Spanish plaza. As Los Angeles grew, city officials in 1866 designated five acres of the former campground into a park. Because it bordered St. Vincent’s college at […]
An early view. An early view of a piano in the lobby. Another vintage view of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel’s original dining and ballroom, circa 1921. The Ambassador Hotel’s Parrot Porch was one of several less formal dancing and dining rooms located on the ground floor of the Ambassador Hotel […]
Between the years 1907 and 1953, Los Angeles had an Alligator Farm that was located at 3627 Mission Road in Lincoln Heights. This postcard hails from around 1910. “Drop In!” Yikes! A postcard from 1910. For a pc, it is not very pc. “Tex” the trainer. “A bunch of babies” at […]
The Eddie “Rochester” Anderson home in the 1950s and today. Its address was originally 1932 W. 37th Street. Following Anderson’s death in 1977 (of heart failure at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills), the address changed to 1932 Rochester Circle in his memory.