File:Panorama of downtown Los Angeles, 8th and Olive-1, ca.1910-13.jpg

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English: Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles, looking east with the 8th Street and Olive Street intersection in view, ca.1910-1913
Photograph of a panoramic view of Downtown Los Angeles, looking east with the 8th Street and Olive Street intersection in view, ca.1910-1913.
  • The cityscape is thriving with commercial buildings and developed roadways. A majority of the buildings are block-shaped and have at least 5 floors except for some of the buildings in the foreground which are shorter and whose roofs are visible.
  • Notable buildings include the Bullock's department store building (center rear, white), The Woodward (center, in front of Bullocks), and the Hamburger's building (May Company) (right, white).
  • Automobiles (or trucks) and several horse-drawn wagon are visible.
  • Legible signs include: "Mozart Theatre, Grand Ave.", "Hollenbeck's lunch room", "B.B. Kitchen", "Hotel [...]orey", "the motorcycle repair shop", "barber shop", "The Boston Tailoring Co.", "Bicycle", "[...] Supply Co.", "Hotel Gilpin", "Hotel Trenton", "Smith Brothers, Stearns Knight", "up to the minute cars & trucks, Sparks & Miller Motor Co.", "The Woodward", "R. Fred Vogel building, Meiling's, grocery and meat market, delicatessen and bakery", "Brooks Auto Park, will open here after May [...], cars delivered [...] from your office", "Home Telephone Co.", "Fisk Rubber Co., for automobile tires", "East[...]", "Bullock's", "Pease Bros, strictly one price, better furniture, better carpets, better draperies, better trade here", "R.D. Bronson Desk Co., office furniture, safes", "Hotel Chickasa[...], European", "[...]ian building".; CHS-2078: Legible signs include: "The Woodward", "Bullocks", "White Garage, storage, repairing, supplies", ..."A.B.C. Employment Agency", "Starter", "Herreshoff 30", "Pure distilled gasoline 17", "California Furniture Company, furniture, carpets, draperies, wall paper; decorations, upholstery", "Furniture, carpets, rugs", "Lyon-McKinney-Smith Co., furniture, carpets, draperies, lowest prices", "Central Building", "Realty bo"..., "Union Oil Bldg.", "The Tuec Co.", "Morey & Machin, perfect fitting, shirts and shirt waists, made to order", "The southern California, L.A. Business College, Healds of LA and Ocean Park", "The Sperry A. Hutchinson Co.", "Our new building"..., "Indian & Mexican Goods", "758, P.F. Kingston Company, 758", ..."Sewing machines", "The Miles Bros. Film Exchange", "405, Piedmont Barber Shop, 405", "Lunch room", "Cafeteria", "Sanborn, Vail & Co., wholesale, retail, engraving, picture frames, drafting materials, office supplies, stationery, pictures, artist's materials", "Swobdi millinery importer", "Terrill, dressmaker & importer", "Terrill, dressmaker, French underwear, corsets"..., "The Jonquil Hotel", "811, Witzel Studio 7, artistic portraits", "Broadway, Eighth & Hill Sts., Hamburger's largest department store in the west, absolutely fire-proof" (later the May Company), "Isaacs-Woodbury Business College, fifth floor, Hamburger bldg., entrance 320 west 8th St.".



Call number: CHS-5663; CHS-2078
Legacy record ID: chs-m15304
Photographer: Bailey
Filename: CHS-5663; CHS-2078
Coverage date: circa 1910/1913
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5663; 2078
Microfiche number: 1-23-22
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): cities
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1910/1913
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- General views (1910-1913); Los Angeles -- Streets -- Broadway -- 7th to 8th
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Olive Street; 8th Street & Hill Street; Broadway & 7th Street
Subject (lcsh): Streets; Stores, Retail
Subject: Bullocks; White Garage
Date circa 1910
date QS:P,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
/1913
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/484
Author Bailey
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