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A new electric streetcar passes an old cable streetcar at the corner of Spring and 1st Streets, downtown Los Angeles, 1896
One name for this 1896 photo could be “Out with the Old, In with the New.” A new electric streetcar is passing an old cable streetcar at the corner of Spring and 1st Streets in downtown LA, looking south. And … Continue reading
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View of Pershing Square, then called Sixth Street Park, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1890
Having lived in Los Angeles since the mid-1990s, I’m used to a Pershing Square that’s filled with large concrete balls, expanses of tile, and a weirdly abstract, angular tower. In 1952, the park was excavated to build an underground parking … Continue reading
Unitarian Universalist Church at Chestnut and Raymond Sts, Pasadena, California, 1890
What a remarkable building this is! I wouldn’t have even picked this as a church, but apparently it was the Unitarian Universalist Church located on the southeast corner of Chestnut and Raymond Streets in Pasadena. The photo was taken in … Continue reading
Parade float built for La Fiesta de Los Angeles showing a miniature of the Mt Lowe hotels and incline railway, Los Angeles St, downtown Los Angeles, 1895
One of the most popular tourist attractions in turn-of-the-century Los Angeles was to ride a cable funicular railway called The Great Incline to the top of Echo Mountain to a 70-room hotel. What we’re seeing in this circa 1890s photo … Continue reading
Brunson Mansion, 347 S. Grand Ave at 4th St, downtown Los Angeles (undated)
Photos like this reminds us how much Los Angeles lost by neglecting its grand Victorian mansions found mostly in the Bunker Hill area of downtown, and whose ultimate fate was to be scraped when the city carved the top off … Continue reading
Looking down on Broadway from 3rd St, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1895
A couple of days ago, I posted a circa 1906 photo looking north up a bustling Broadway. This one is much the same view, but from Third St and taken from what looks like the rooftop of one of the … Continue reading
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A horse and carriage wait outside the elaborate Glendale Hotel, Broadway, Glendale, circa 1890s
In the late 1880s, the Glendale Hotel opened on Broadway in Glendale. It was built in the popular late-Victorian style – very elaborate with lots of levels and planes and detailing. I don’t have a date on this one, but … Continue reading
A convoy of horse-drawn Tally-Ho carriages take Angeleno tourists from Los Angeles to the Altadena Junction, circa late 1890s
I don’t have a lot of information on this photo, but from what I can piece together, it appears to be from the late 1890s when the Tally-Ho carriages would take groups of locals and tourists from Los Angeles (which … Continue reading
Well-dressed Angelenos gather around two of the Los Angeles’ first electric streetcars on Pico St, Los Angeles, 1887
Angelenos got all dressed up in their Sunday-best finery to be among the first citizens to ride two of Los Angeles’ first electric streetcars on Pico St, which I believe is now Pico Blvd, in 1887. The sign on the … Continue reading
Los Angeles’ first telephone pay station, 228 S. Spring St, downtown Los Angeles, 1899
What we’re looking here is new technology coming to Los Angeles on the cusp of a new century. This was Los Angeles’ first telephone pay station which opened at 228 S. Spring St in downtown Los Angeles, which was the … Continue reading