Women’s Christian Temperance Union Building at Broadway and Temple Street, downtown Los Angeles, 1939
Six years after Prohibition ended in 1933, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union were still holding firm to their ideal that, as it says on their billboard, “Prohibition: the Best Method Against Liquor Traffic” that stood atop their building at Broadway and Temple St in downtown L.A. To the far right, streetcars are emerging through the Broadway Tunnel that was demolished in 1949 to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. I was surprised to learn that that Union is still around. Sensibly, they appear to have switched the focus of their efforts from alcohol to drugs.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Advertisement, Downtown Los Angeles, Streetcars. Bookmark the permalink.
- Home
- BOOKS
- “All the Gin Joints” – a novel of World War II Hollywood
- “Chasing Salomé” – a novel of 1920s Hollywood
- “Selznick’s Girl Friday” – a novel of 1939 Hollywood
- “Thank Your Lucky Stars” – a novel of World War II Hollywood
- “The Heart of the Lion” – a novel of Irving Thalberg’s Hollywood
- “You Must Remember This” – a novel of World War II Hollywood
- Book 1 – “The Garden on Sunset”
- Book 2 – “The Trouble with Scarlett”
- Book 3 – “Citizen Hollywood”
- Book 4 – “Searchlights and Shadows”
- Book 5 – “Reds in the Beds”
- Book 6 – “Twisted Boulevard”
- Book 7 – “Tinseltown Confidential”
- Book 8 – “City of Myths”
- Book 9 – “Closing Credits”
- The Hollywood’s Garden of Allah trilogy #1
- The Hollywood’s Garden of Allah trilogy #2
- The Hollywood’s Garden of Allah trilogy #3
- About The Author
- Hollywood Places
- Places – E to K
- Places – L to P
- Places – Q to T
- Places – U to Z
- Spotlight on…Bullocks Wilshire
- Spotlight on…Cafe Montmartre
- Spotlight on…Cafe Trocadero
- Spotlight on…Ciro’s
- Spotlight on…Clifton’s Cafeteria
- Spotlight on…Don the Beachcomber
- Spotlight on…Grauman’s Chinese Theater
- Spotlight on…Mocambo
- Spotlight on…Romanoff’s
- Spotlight on…Schwab’s Pharmacy
- Spotlight on…the Earl Carroll Theatre
- Spotlight on…the Hollywood Canteen
- Spotlight on…the Hollywood Hotel
- Spotlight on…the Hollywood Palladium
- Spotlight on…The Players
- The ‘Hollywood Garden of Allah Novels’ companion map of Los Angeles and Hollywood
- Hollywood Timeline
- Photo Blog
- Bibliography
- Store
- Contact
I was interested to see the Signal Oil billboard with its semaphore traffic signal logo and slogan, “Go Farther.” They are very familiar from my childhood but have been gone now for many years.
I’m always so glad and grateful that these photographers thought to take photos of what would have been just another day in their everyday life.
Further perusing the photo, you can see the shadow cast by the Hall of Justice which is on the northeast corner of Temple and Broadway across the street from the WCTU. The Hall of Justice is still there. The WCTU site is now occupied by the LA County Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant.
Thanks for confirming the location, Gordon. I suspected that’s the corner it was on, but wasn’t sure.
I remember going to see relatives in LA when I was 6 or 7 and being amazed at all the wires over head! San Diego had some but never so many. I grew up 14 miles inland from SD. Everybody had a car and the bus was used mostly by old folks. This photo is has a very conested feel to it!!