Los Angeles looking northeast from 1st Street, circa 1887

Posted on March 11, 2014 by

Los Angeles looking northeast from 1st Street, circa 1887This shot is downtown Los Angeles looking northeast from 1st Street on top of what I assume is Bunker Hill. It was taken on around 1887 and is hard to believe that downtown L.A. ever looked like this. Of course, in 1887, it wasn’t “downtown Los Angeles” – it was simply “Los Angeles” because that’s all there was. The “outer suburbs” of Angelino Heights” and Lincoln Heights” were only just starting to become developed.

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2 responses to “Los Angeles looking northeast from 1st Street, circa 1887”

  1. Darrell K says:
    September 15, 2016 at 11:37 am

    Great shot, nice touch ups on it for clarity. Center-left is the 2nd LA Times Building, the one blown up by the McNamara brothers in 1910, killing over 20.

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  2. Al Donnelly says:
    December 30, 2024 at 1:48 pm

    Tower is old courthouse at Temple & Broadway (old Fort Street). Camera is positioned just at about Olive Court off Olive Street. Building on left is three story Hillside Hotel which sat above the dirt Hill Street climb where the Los Angeles-Pacific tunnel #1 would be bored in 1909 to shorten the route to tunnel #2 at Temple (running under the old high school site out to Sunset Blvd.) To get toward Colgrove and Hollywood, cars off Hill had to negotiate a circuitous route through town, so this tunnel solved that problem. Spotting the large flat roofed building in a reverse image from the tower, and using maps, should confirm this location. The palms may be at the back of another hotel or apartment (Gladden) that faces Olive.

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