“Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles”

Twilight traffic jam on westbound Wilshire Boulevard, 1931.

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“Prohibition: The Best Method Against Liquor Traffic” Looking north at The Women’s Temperance Christian Union building at Temple and Broadway, 1939. The Broadway Tunnel can be seen in the background. Everything pictured here is gone (including the tunnel), demolished to make way for Civic Center expansion.

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Echo Park in 1895: Snow-capped peaks in the distance and rolling countryside all around.

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The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and Cinegrill, in a promo photo from 1949. 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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Beach attire, circa 1905: Well dressed Angelenos promenading down Windward Avenue in Venice, California.

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“Happy Landing”: The crowded sidewalk beneath the Loew’s State Theater marquee, 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, 1938.

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Pasadena at night, 1906. Streetcar tracks and their flanking streetlights stretch into the far distance. [Reader Request]

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A chauffeur keeps the Lincoln idling outside the Maddux Air Lines office on Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles, 1929.

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Looking down on traffic in the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, 1933. Viewed from the Pellissier Building (Wiltern Theater) in what is now the Koreatown District of Los Angeles.

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Making an entrance: a guest is attended by a bellhop and her chauffeur as she arrives at the Shangri-La Hotel, 1301 Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, 1940.

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