Angelenos crowd the Olive Street sidewalk outside the Biltmore Hotel to see presidential hopeful, Alf Landon, downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Angelenos crowd the Olive Street sidewalk outside the Biltmore Hotel to see presidential hopeful, Alf Landon, downtown Los Angeles, 1936So many Angelenos turned out to see presidential hopeful Alf Landon that I wonder how many of these people actually saw the man who lost the most lopsided election in over 100 years. These people crowded the Olive Street sidewalk outside the Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA in the runup to the 1936 election in which Landon lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt by more than 10 million votes. But the people I really feel sorry for are the drivers behind the wheels of those cars caught in the middle of that mayhem. I hope they brought something to read because it’d be a while before they got home for dinner.

The Biltmore Hotel is still there, though it’s hard to see behind those shade trees. This image is from January 2023.

 

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2 responses to “Angelenos crowd the Olive Street sidewalk outside the Biltmore Hotel to see presidential hopeful, Alf Landon, downtown Los Angeles, 1936”

  1. Martin Pal says:

    That’s pretty crazy! Look at all the “hats!”

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