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Booster poster to attract people buy government land in California (undated)
I couldn’t find this image anywhere else on the internet, so I’m only assuming it’s a genuine. But even if it isn’t, it’s very reminiscent of the booster posters that were created to attract people to movie to California. Cheap … Continue reading
Workmen construct the Janss Steps on the new UCLA campus, Westwood, Los Angeles, 1928
The workmen building the Janss Steps on what was then the new campus of UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) in the Westwood part of LA would probably never have guessed what would eventually come to fill that wide-open pastoral … Continue reading
“Food For Victory / Victory Garden” billboard with Arthur Murray dance studio, 5828 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 1942
This photo is a sign of the times – billboard with not a commercial product to hawk, but a community message to broadcast. “Let’s All Raise Food For Victory / Watch This Model Victory Garden Grow” was designed to encourage … Continue reading
The California Limited train stops at the Santa Fe depot in Pasadena, California, en route to Chicago, circa 1900
I do like the way this photographer has framed this shot. It’s a circa 1900 photo of the California Limited train during its stop at the Pasadena depot of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway en route to Chicago. … Continue reading
Human billboard for MGM’s “Hollywood Revue of 1929” at Wilshire Blvd and Shatto Place, Los Angeles, circa June 1929
Some bright spark in MGM’s publicity department decided that a great way to garner attention for the movie “Hollywood Revue of 1929” (the studio’s second feature-length musical, and one of their earliest sound films) was to create a huge billboard … Continue reading
Hill Street Pacific Electric Station, downtown Los Angeles, circa early 1920s.jpg
This is an early 1920s shot of the Hill Street station for Pacific Electric, which was the railway company that ran the streetcars known as Red Cars. I’m not entirely sure, but I think this station was on the west … Continue reading
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Bomb shelter sales display, 6135 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, circa 1940s
Here’s a very 1950s photo: Get your bomb shelters right here! A couple of doors west of the Wilshire Blvd/Fairfax Ave intersection (where the May Company department store stood) was this sales display for bomb shelters, which were going for … Continue reading
Promotional postcard advertising the 1939 DeSoto 4-door sedan (supposedly) in front of the Carthay Circle Theatre, 6316 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles.
To advertise their 1939 4-door sedan, DeSoto decided to go with the height of Hollywood glamor – a movie premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. In December 1939 it would host the mother of all Hollywood premieres: “Gone with the … Continue reading
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Advertisement for the Garden of Alla(h) Hotel, Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles in Film Spectator magazine, June 11, 1927
The central setting for my Hollywood’s Garden of Allah series of novels is a hotel on Sunset Boulevard called the Garden of Allah. For most of its 32-year life, the “Allah” was spelled with an “h” but when the hotel … Continue reading
Women’s Christian Temperance Union Building at Broadway and Temple Street, downtown Los Angeles, 1939
Six years after Prohibition ended in 1933, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union were still holding firm to their ideal that, as it says on their billboard, “Prohibition: the Best Method Against Liquor Traffic” that stood atop their building at Broadway … Continue reading