{"id":29302,"date":"2024-05-15T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=29302"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T03:42:56","slug":"color-photo-looking-down-hill-st-from-6th-st-past-the-paramount-theatre-downtown-los-angeles-circa-late-1950s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/05\/15\/color-photo-looking-down-hill-st-from-6th-st-past-the-paramount-theatre-downtown-los-angeles-circa-late-1950s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Color photo looking down Hill St from 6th St past the Paramount Theatre, downtown Los Angeles, circa late 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>** UPDATE ** – It turns out this view is looking down 6th Street from Hill Street.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29303\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/05\/15\/color-photo-looking-down-hill-st-from-6th-st-past-the-paramount-theatre-downtown-los-angeles-circa-late-1950s-2\/color-photo-looking-down-hill-st-from-6th-st-past-the-paramount-theatre-downtown-los-angeles-circa-late-1950s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Color-photo-looking-down-Hill-St-from-6th-St-past-the-Paramount-Theatre-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-late-1950s.jpg?fit=960%2C654&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,654\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Color photo looking down Hill St from 6th St past the Paramount Theatre, downtown Los Angeles, circa late 1950s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Color-photo-looking-down-Hill-St-from-6th-St-past-the-Paramount-Theatre-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-late-1950s.jpg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Color-photo-looking-down-Hill-St-from-6th-St-past-the-Paramount-Theatre-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-late-1950s.jpg?fit=640%2C436&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29303\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Color-photo-looking-down-Hill-St-from-6th-St-past-the-Paramount-Theatre-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-late-1950s.jpg?resize=640%2C436&ssl=1\" alt=\"Color photo looking down Hill St from 6th St past the Paramount Theatre, downtown Los Angeles, circa late 1950s\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Color-photo-looking-down-Hill-St-from-6th-St-past-the-Paramount-Theatre-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-late-1950s.jpg?w=960&ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Color-photo-looking-down-Hill-St-from-6th-St-past-the-Paramount-Theatre-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-late-1950s.jpg?resize=300%2C204&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Color-photo-looking-down-Hill-St-from-6th-St-past-the-Paramount-Theatre-downtown-Los-Angeles-circa-late-1950s.jpg?resize=768%2C523&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>In this glorious color photo, we\u2019re looking down Hill St from 6th St in downtown Los Angeles, which means Pershing Square was behind the photographer. That cinema on the left is the Paramount Theatre, which had opened on January 26, 1923 as Grauman’s Metropolitan (as in Sid Grauman, as in Chinese Theatre.) Playing the theater that day was \u201cThe Naked and the Dead.\u201d It came out in the summer of 1958, so I\u2019m pegging this shot to be circa late 1950s. I do love how See\u2019s Candies had a primo location two doors down from the theater. I bet they did a great pre-show trade.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29307\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/05\/15\/color-photo-looking-down-hill-st-from-6th-st-past-the-paramount-theatre-downtown-los-angeles-circa-late-1950s-2\/443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n-2.jpg?fit=730%2C452&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"730,452\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1715805691","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n-2.jpg?fit=300%2C186&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n-2.jpg?fit=640%2C396&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n-2.jpg?resize=640%2C396&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n-2.jpg?w=730&ssl=1 730w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/443698326_10230358264393410_3806558388968144402_n-2.jpg?resize=300%2C186&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** UPDATE ** – It turns out this view is looking down 6th Street from Hill Street. In this glorious color photo, we\u2019re looking down Hill St from 6th St in downtown Los Angeles, which means Pershing Square was behind … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/05\/15\/color-photo-looking-down-hill-st-from-6th-st-past-the-paramount-theatre-downtown-los-angeles-circa-late-1950s-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/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":[9,10,31],"class_list":["post-29302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color-photo","tag-downtown-los-angeles","tag-theaters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-7CC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302","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=29302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29308,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302\/revisions\/29308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}