In this vibrant (Kodachrome?) photo, we can see a Los Angeles Railway “Line #5” yellow streetcar at Broadway and Olympic Blvd in downtown L.A., circa 1954. (Line 5 traveled between Hawthorn via downtown to Eagle Rock.) We can see the United Artists Theater (now the Ace Hotel), the Eastern Columbia department store (now lofts) and I love that blue car caught between to streetcars. But I especially love the store on the right: “Dorn’s House of Miracles: radio, televisions, appliances, records.” Looks like Dorn’s had all the mod cons!
Odd how the modern location seems so far away from the same buildings and the intersection where the “5” car turns out. Did they alter the block in some way?
In this vibrant (Kodachrome?) photo, we can see a Los Angeles Railway “Line #5” yellow streetcar at Broadway and Olympic Blvd in downtown L.A., circa 1954. (Line 5 traveled between Hawthorn via downtown to Eagle Rock.) We can see the United Artists Theater (now the Ace Hotel), the Eastern Columbia department store (now lofts) and I love that blue car caught between to streetcars. But I especially love the store on the right: “Dorn’s House of Miracles: radio, televisions, appliances, records.” Looks like Dorn’s had all the mod cons!
That should be real close to “The Oasis” (https://martinturnbull.com/2017/08/28/the-oasis-hollywood-1939-possibly-at-962-south-broadway-los-angeles-2/)… pity we don’t have another angle to view.
Odd how the modern location seems so far away from the same buildings and the intersection where the “5” car turns out. Did they alter the block in some way?
Hey Al, it often seems that way, but I think that’s more about the camera lens and how the photo was taken.