This is a turn-of-the-century image taken from a stereoview card of a palm-tree-lined street known as the “Avenue of Palms” which used to exist near the intersection of Adams Blvd and Figueroa St south of downtown Los Angeles and north of the USC campus. The street wasn’t paved yet, so during the winter, those horses pulling the carriage would have had a tough time of it between the mud and the loose palms fronds strewn across the street after a storm.

John J. says: “It was the driveway of the Longstreet Mansion, built in the 1870s. The property was subdivided in the 1880s. Today it is Hope St.“