{"id":13520,"date":"2017-10-19T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=13520"},"modified":"2017-10-19T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:03:59","slug":"los-angeles-railway-yellow-streetcar-line-5-at-broadway-and-olympic-downtown-los-angeles-circa-1954-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/10\/19\/los-angeles-railway-yellow-streetcar-line-5-at-broadway-and-olympic-downtown-los-angeles-circa-1954-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Railway yellow streetcar Line 5 at Broadway and Olympic, downtown Los Angeles circa 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13521\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/10\/19\/los-angeles-railway-yellow-streetcar-line-5-at-broadway-and-olympic-downtown-los-angeles-circa-1954-2\/los-angeles-railway-yellow-streetcar-line-5-at-broadway-and-olympic-downtown-los-angeles-circa-1954\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?fit=1116%2C741&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1116,741\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Los Angeles Railway yellow streetcar Line 5 at Broadway and Olympic, downtown Los Angeles circa 1954\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?fit=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?fit=640%2C425&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13521\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Los Angeles Railway yellow streetcar Line 5 at Broadway and Olympic, downtown Los Angeles circa 1954\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Los-Angeles-Railway-yellow-streetcar-Line-5-at-Broadway-and-Olympic-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-1954.jpg?w=1116&amp;ssl=1 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>In this vibrant (Kodachrome?) photo, we can see a Los Angeles Railway \u201cLine #5\u201d yellow streetcar at Broadway and Olympic Blvd in downtown L.A., circa 1954. (Line 5 traveled between Hawthorn via downtown to Eagle Rock.) We can see the United Artists Theater (now the Ace Hotel), the Eastern Columbia department store (now lofts) and I love that blue car caught between to streetcars. But I especially love the store on the right: \u201cDorn\u2019s House of Miracles: radio, televisions, appliances, records.\u201d Looks like Dorn\u2019s had all the mod cons!<\/h3>\n<h3>The same view January 2017:<\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13522\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/10\/19\/los-angeles-railway-yellow-streetcar-line-5-at-broadway-and-olympic-downtown-los-angeles-circa-1954-2\/screen-shot-2017-10-19-at-6-50-11-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM.png?fit=877%2C543&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"877,543\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM.png?fit=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM.png?fit=640%2C396&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13522\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM.png?resize=640%2C396&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM.png?w=877&amp;ssl=1 877w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.50.11-AM.png?resize=768%2C476&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this vibrant (Kodachrome?) photo, we can see a Los Angeles Railway \u201cLine #5\u201d yellow streetcar at Broadway and Olympic Blvd in downtown L.A., circa 1954. 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We can see the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/10\/19\/los-angeles-railway-yellow-streetcar-line-5-at-broadway-and-olympic-downtown-los-angeles-circa-1954-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10,33,37,32,31],"class_list":["post-13520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color-photo","tag-downtown-los-angeles","tag-hotels","tag-stores-and-shopping","tag-streetcars","tag-theaters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-3w4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13523,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions\/13523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}