Photograph showing a line of residences on Hill St near Fifth St, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1890

Photograph showing a line of residences on Hill St near Fifth St, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1890After ten years (and counting!) of posting vintage photos of Los Angeles, you’d think by now I wouldn’t be surprised to find yet another one showing us (what we now think of as) downtown LA as being residential. And yet … and yet … this one still made me stop and think “Wait. What?” The houses in this circa 1890 image were standing on Hill St somewhere near Fifth St, which means Pershing Square wasn’t far away, although at the time, the people living here would have referred to it as the 6th Street Park, or perhaps Central Park after it got its early 1890s name change.

According to SF_Historian on Twitter, those houses stood around here. This image is from April 2021:

 

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5 responses to “Photograph showing a line of residences on Hill St near Fifth St, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1890”

  1. Ralph Conroy says:

    I just enjoy this site and often wonder what it would be like to peek back and hear the sounds and sites of an era long past.

  2. Paul Yonadi Jr says:

    And how about that fella on the roof looking towards the camera

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