What Los Angeles looked like in the 1930s

#1 Traffic at Seventh and Spring, 1930

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#2 Girl waiting for bus on Beverly Boulevard, interesection at Van Ness, July 17, 1931

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#3 Looking northeast on Figueroa from tunnel no. 1, 1935

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#4 6th and Olive Streets, 1930

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#5 Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930

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#6 Caliente Golf Park, 4th Street and Vermont Avenue, 1931

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#7 Traffic on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1931

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#8 Sunset Boulevard – 1939

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#9 Crowds watching an American football match at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1930.

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#10 Culver City boosterism, 1930

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#11 Looking north on Broadway at 7th Street, 1931

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#12 Looking south on Broadway from 4th Street, 1931

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#13 Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932

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#14 W. 8th Street and S. Broadway, 1931

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#15 Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930

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#16 May Company Department Store golden jubilee, 8th Street and Broadway, 1931

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#17 Looking south on Flower Street at 4th, 1933

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#18 Window-shoppers at J.W. Robinson’s, 1933

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#19 Bankers Building on Hill Street, 1935

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#20 3rd Street tunnel, 1937

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#21 Clifton’s Brookdale at 648 S. Broadway, 1937

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#22 Wilshire Boulevard at Catalina, with the Mona Lisa Restaurant at the left, the Immanuel Presbyterian Church across the street, and Bullock’s Wilshire Department Store tower can be seen further west on Wilshire, Los Angeles, 1938.

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#23 Looking east on Wilshire Blvd at Hoover St with Simon’s Drive-In in the lower right and the Arcady Hotel a couple of blocks up on the left, Los Angeles, 1939.

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#24 Howard Hughes, motion picture producer, was at the controls when his Mystery Plane had its first real test flight in Los Angeles, 1935

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#25 High angle view of the Santa Claus Lane Parade on an illuminated Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1934

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#26 Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, California, with the third Los Angeles Times Building on the right, 1930

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#27 View of Hollywood Boulevard. Hollywood. Los Angeles. California, 1930

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#28 An exterior shot of Joan Fontaine’s house in Hollywood, signed to RKO, 1930.

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#29 Female Competition in the Dust Sweeping, 1930

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#30 Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930

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#31 Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930

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#32 Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930

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#33 Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930

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#34 Traffic on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1931

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#35 Traffic on Wilshire Blvd., 1932

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#36 Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932

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#37 Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932

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#38 Morgan Hotel shown at 629 W. 8th Street, 1932

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#39 Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932

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#40 Looking west on Apablasa from Juan Street, 1933

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#41 Looking west on Apablasa Street from Juan Street, 1933

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#42 Looking west on east 7th at Mateo Street, 1933

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#43 Looking east on 1st Street from Broadway, 1934

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#44 Looking east on Wilshire Boulevard at Vermont Avenue, 1934

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#45 Looking south on Broadway at 8th Street, 1935

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#46 Looking west on 7th Street at Broadway, 1935

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#47 Clifton’s Brookdale at 648 S. Broadway, 1936

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#48 Looking east on Wilshire Boulevard at Berendo Street, 1936

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#49 On the Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1936

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#50 7th and Olive Streets, 1937

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#51 A young gentleman headed south on Grand Avenue across from the Mayflower Hotel, 1937

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#52 Biltmore Florists, Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 1937

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#53 Broadway south at Seventh, 1937

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#54 Hill near 3rd Street, 1937

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#55 Looking west on 7th Street at Hill, 1937

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#56 Main at 9th Street, 1937

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#57 The Hotel Latour, Hill Street, 1937

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#58 Union Pacific building, Hill and 6th streets, 1937

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#59 Waiting for trains at La Grande Station, 1937

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#60 Walking between the Figueroa Street tunnels, 1937

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#61 Walking between the Figueroa Street tunnels, 1937

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#62 Looking east on 5th Street across Olive, 1938

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#63 Looking east on W 43rd Place at Garthwaite Avenue, 1938

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#64 Looking north on Hill Street at 4th, 1938

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#65 Looking north on Spring Street from 5th, 1938

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#66 Looking west on Hollywood Boulevard at Cahuenga, 1938

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#67 Warner Brothers Downtown, 7th and Hill Streets, 1938

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#68 Coulter’s, Wilshire Boulevard, 1939

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#69 Looking north on Spring Street at 2nd, 1939

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#70 Looking west on Wilshire Boulevard at S Westlake Avenue, 1939

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#71 Rainy day on Broadway, 1939

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#72 Traffic at Wilshire and South Grand Avenue, 1939

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#73 Looking west on 8th Street from Main, ca. 1930s

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#74 South of Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca. 1930s

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#75 Hanging laundry at Olympic Trailer Court on the border of Santa Monica and West Los Angeles.

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#76 Workers at Lockheed’s Burbank plant gathered on their lunch break.

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#77 A young girl outside a market at Olympic Trailer Court.

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#78 People on Santa Monica’s Ocean Park pier.

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#79 Residents at Olympic Trailer Court. A booming defense industry fueled fierce demand for temporary housing.

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#80 The Court Flight railway took passengers up and down a steep incline in downtown Los Angeles.

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#81 Douglas Aircraft Company workers on their lunch break in Santa Monica.

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#82 A woman wiped off the counter of a lunch stand near an aircraft plant in the Los Angeles area.

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#83 Shoppers on Lindbrook Drive in Westwood Village, home to a Sears and Ralphs supermarket.

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#84 An oil field covered with derricks in an unidentified area of Los Angeles.

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#85 Employees of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank leave the plant at the end of their shifts.

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#86 A father talks to his two young sons at Olympic Trailer Court.

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#87 A young man walked by a hot dog stand on Washington Boulevard.

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#88 A Los Angeles Railway bus traveled through Los Angeles.

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#89 People gathered for a bowling tournament at Burbank Bowl.

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#90 Spectators watched the bowling tournament.

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#91 Lockheed workers in Burbank lined up to buy lunch.

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#92 Employees of the Douglas Aircraft plant, located at Santa Monica Airport, awaited a ride to work.

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#93 An ice cream vendor looked for customers near the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Santa Monica.

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#94 View of unfinished CBS Columbia Square KNX Art Deco style building, looking northwest from Gower Street, Los Angeles, 1938

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#95 Howard Hughes’ world-circling plane pictured from an American Airlines plane as it flew over Los Angeles, 1983

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#96 Laurence Olivier as he arrived this morning on the Normandie, en route to Hollywood where he will play opposite Merle Oberon in “Wuthering Heights” – 1939.

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#97 The Twin Barrels drive-in restaurant near Los Angeles, 1939.

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#98 Screen Actors Guild marching in Labor Day Parade. Forty thousand union men and women marched through the streets of Los Angeles to demonstrate their rising strength. None but AFL unions were represented.

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#99 Black and white photograph of staff posed in Earl’s Light House Restaurant

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#100 Polo-school team of the Mabelle Scott Rancho School in Santa Monica, 1937.

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#101 A night view down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, 1937.

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#102 At this junction of two suburban roads, District Attorney Buron Fitts narrowly escaped death when ambushers fired shots that wounded him in the arm, 1936

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#103 Pause in a Hollywood studio. Extras and actors of the Hollywood Beauty Chorus in the movie ‘Footlight Parade’ shot from above, 1934.

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#104 The US-Airship Macon over Los Angeles, 1934.

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#105 Jazz band playing in the swimming pool at the Santa Monica Hotel. There are girls eating and dancing as well – June 19, 1933.

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#106 A group of boys made diving helmets from sections of hot water heaters, boilers and other easily secured “junk”. Los Angeles. USA – June 23, 1933.

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#107 Loud speakers protrude from the Hollywood Tower at the Century of Progress International Exposition (1934).

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#108 Actors in costume and horses during Amazon staging.

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#109 A record breaking stack of tires is used as advertisement at Hollywood, California. To attract attention to a large stock of used tires two salesmen put a lifelike dummy sitting on the top. 2044

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#110 Sylvia Sidney (1910 – 1999) the American film and television actress on the beach in front of her Malibu home where she spends her time when she is not working

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#111 A procession passes Los Angeles’ new $10,000,000 City Hall at the opening ceremony for the building which is surmounted by the Lindbergh Beacon 500 feet above street level – December 4, 1930.

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#112 Aerial view of Warner Brothers Studios – undated.

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#113 Sixth Street, looking west from Main street, Los Angeles, California, early to mid 20th century

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#114 A view, looking north from Seventh Street, of crowds on Broadway, Los Angeles, California, 1930.

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#115 A suburban boulevard in the Wilshire district of Los Angeles, California, 1930.

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#116 A bunch of people in front of Charlie Chaplin’s studio in the heart of Hollywood

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#117 Two young Americans, who had just won a model aircraft contest in Los Angeles, 1930s

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#118 A view over Hollywood Boulevard and Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (bottom, left), Hollywood, California.

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#119 The mock Tudor house of American actor Warner Baxter at Bel Air, Los Angeles, 1930s.

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#120 An exterior view of the home of Ramon Novarro, the Metro Goldwyn Mayer star, designed by Ramon Novarro himself, situated in the hills overlooking Los Angeles, 1930.

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#121 Exterior view of a woman entering the hat-shaped Brown Derby restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard, opposite the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood, California, 1930

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#122 Audience members queue in line to enter the CBS Radio program, Man About Hollywood, which broadcasts from CBS KNX studios at Columbia Square, 1939.

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#123 Exterior view of the Los Angeles Examiner Building, situated at the southwest corner of Broadway and 11th Streets in Los Angeles, 1939.

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#124 Exterior view of the CBS Columbia Square KNX Art Deco style building on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, 1938.

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#125 View of unfinished CBS Columbia Square KNX Art Deco style building, looking northwest from Gower Street, Los Angeles, 1938.

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#126 A view of actor George Brent House in the Toluca Lake area in Los Angeles, 1935.

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#127 Joe Crocker poses in a race car at the speedway with a group of spectators milling about in the background, 1935.

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#128 High angle view of the Santa Claus Lane Parade on an illuminated Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1934.

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#129 Aerial view of the Westwood campus of the University of California, with the Royce Hall building (top, centre), Kerckhoff Hall (bottom, right) in the Westwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles, 1934.

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#130 Crowds at the West Coast premiere of Eddie Cantor’s The Kid from Spain at the Warner Brothers’ Western Theater, on the corner of Wilshire and Western in Los Angeles, 1930s.

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#131 Exterior of Tux Tavern, a small building with a Tux Tavern sign on top, wood siding and a ladder leading against it, 1930s.

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#132 Premiere Of ‘Hell’s Angels’ At Grauman’s

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#133 High angle view looking north on Broadway from 11th Street, with the Western Costume Building on the left, with a Texaco sign beyond that, 1930

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#134 Overview of a busy Los Angeles street, 1930

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#135 Women in a beauty Salon, Los Angeles, 1930

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#136 7th and Hope Streets, 1933

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#137 Twelfth east at Main, 1937

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#138 Three men relaxed on a bench overlooking South Hill Street in Los Angeles.

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#139 A man on an unidentified street in Burbank. In the distance is a Lockheed plant.

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#140 A newsstand offered snacks, comic books, and even Lockheed uniforms in Burbank.

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#141 The palm-lined South Kenmore Avenue in Los Angeles.

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#142 Eatery serving ‘Grill-Burgers’ and other dishes that is shaped like a ‘Chili Bowl’, 1939.

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#143 The exterior of the ‘Cafe Trocadero’, a nightclub on Sunset Strip, a stretch of Sunset Boulevard, in West Hollywood, 1937.

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#144 Hollywood sign, Hollywood, California – 1935.

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#145 Toward Los Angeles, 1937.

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