In this photo we’re treated to a pre-automobile Los Angeles. It’s the corner of Broadway and Ninth Street, where your choices of transportation were: streetcar, horse-and-buggy, bicycle, or your legs. (Note the full-length dress suit on the woman at the far right, dating this photo to circa 1912.) A couple of decades later, this corner would be come much more prominent when the Eastern-Columbia department store, clad in its striking turquoise tiles, opened in 1930.
Tony V says: “The building in the center is Hamburger’s, later known as the May Co. Built in 1906, it is currently undergoing rehabilitation with plans for retail, office and hotel space.”
The same view in April 2019:
The Eastern-Columbia department store building has now been converted to residential lofts:
In this photo we’re treated to a pre-automobile Los Angeles. It’s the corner of Broadway and Ninth Street, where your choices of transportation were: streetcar, horse-and-buggy, bicycle, or your legs. (Note the full-length dress suit on the woman at the far right, dating this photo to circa 1912.) A couple of decades later, this corner would be come much more prominent when the Eastern-Columbia department store, clad in its striking turquoise tiles, opened in 1930.
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