McColloch Drug Co at 6th St and Figueroa, downtown Los Angeles, late 1920s
This photograph of the corner of 6th St and Figueroa was taken circa late 1920s in downtown Los Angeles. What’s most interesting about this shot is what was standing on the sidewalk outside McColloch Drug Company. It’s a raised booth for (I’m guessing) traffic cops, although how any cop expects motorists to see him from up there is a mystery to me. Another mystery is that long pine box next to the motorcyclist on the right. Please tell me that’s not a coffin.
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A) Note the wires. He’s controlling the traffic signals.
B) Sometimes a toolbox sidecar is just a toolbox sidecar, albeit a large one. 😀
Ah, you mean the wires leading up out of the top of the booth? I see what you mean. And if that’s a tool box (which makes sense) that chap has got a lot of very big tools!
I agree the raised box is for traffic control.
The “coffin” is most likely a tool box.
Martin-
I think this is a funeral procession. It seems that the motorcycle is accompanying the coffin, and the cars are in a line.
A “funeral procession” wherein the deceased is carried by a motorcycle sidecar? I think not.
Escorted by, not carried by.
Maybe not.