POLICE RADIO NETS BANDITS Pair Identified as Robbers of Pasadena Store Caught Nine Minutes and Thirty Seconds Later LOS ANGELES TIMES –PASADENA, November 17, 1930 –Success of the new police radio broadcasting system was further demonstrated today when two armed bandits who just held-up the MacMarr grocery store at 60 North Lake avenue were captured […]
Los Angeles: Snapshots of the 1940s. Above photo: An aerial view of city hall in 1940. Another view of City Hall, circa 1940. Photographer: Ansel Adams/ LAPL 00085775 Night view of Los Angeles from the Griffith Observatory, circa 1940. Photo taken by Ansel Adams in 1940. To the left is the Hotel […]
Above photo: Main Street, looking north from around 6th Street. Photo was taken on May 8, 1901, the day U.S. President William McKinley visited Los Angeles. The Los Angeles High School football team, circa 1899-1900. According to the Los Angeles Times, the high school occasionally played colleges and universities to fill its season. For instance, […]
Los Angeles. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by Kuchel & Dresel, in the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. District Court for Northern District of Cal. Los Angeles as it appeared in Vol. 5 of the quarto edition of the Pacific Railroad Reports in 1855. The Los Angeles City […]