On May 18, 2022, I posted a night photo of looking north up Broadway from 10th St, downtown LA in 1929. This circa 1926 photo is much the same view but taken during the day. Western Costume is there, but the future site of the United Artists Theatre is still an empty block. We can see a sign for the Orpheum Theatre, which opened on February 15 of that year so I’m guessing this photo was taken later that year. But I’m a bit worried for that traffic cop. This looks to be a busy intersection and all he’s got is that little box to stand on. There’s no such box in the 1929 photo, so I assume he brought it with him?

This is roughly the same view in January 2022: