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Interior of a passenger rail car on its way to California 1880s
In the 1880s, Los Angeles experienced one of its biggest booms when the transcontinental railways finally came to L.A. thus providing people with a (relatively) comfortable way to travel from coast to coast. I’ve read a lot about that era, … Continue reading
Los Angeles looking northeast from 1st Street, circa 1887
This shot is downtown Los Angeles looking northeast from 1st Street on top of what I assume is Bunker Hill. It was taken on around 1887 and is hard to believe that downtown L.A. ever looked like this. Of course, … Continue reading
View of Los Angeles from the Belmont Hotel, mid-1880s
If you came to Los Angeles in the mid 1880s and took a room at the Belmont Hotel on the corner of 2nd Street and Belmont, this would have been the view from your window. It’s hard to believe that … Continue reading
Hotel Glendale, in Glendale, California, around 1895.
Hotel Glendale, around 1895. This grand Victorian hotel was built during Glendale’s first boom in the late 1880s at a cost of $60,000. Unfortunately, it didn’t even open because the boom busted too fast. So it became a school and, … Continue reading
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L.J. Rose residence at Fourth St and Grand Ave in 1890.
Can you imagine how different downtown L.A. would look it we’d somehow managed to find a way to hang on to these Victorian masterpieces? This is the L.J. Rose residence at Fourth St and Grand Ave in 1890. Couldn’t we have … Continue reading
Hollywood’s first hotel, the Glen-Holly Hotel at Ivar & Yucca, Hollywood, circa 1890
Circa 1890, people are seated in front of the first hotel in Hollywood, the Glen-Holly Hotel, at the corner of Ivar and Yucca Streets, which puts it up the street from where the Knickerbocker now stands. That corner of Hollywood … Continue reading
Bradbury Mansion, 1890
Lewis L. Bradbury was a mining millionaire who became a real estate developer in the latter part of his life. He famously built the Bradbury Building in downtown L.A. but in my view, it’s his mansion at the corner of … Continue reading