Panorama: hustle and bustle at 4th and Main, downtown Los Angeles, 1923.
Los Angeles - 1950
Looking north on Figueroa St., just before Sunset Blvd.
Today, this is just east of the 110 and 101 freeway interchange.
Traffic has always been bad in this town.
I hate this part of the 110, but my god this city really is beautiful.
It is of course smog that makes twilight in Los Angeles so striking, but it’s unlike any smog you’ll ever see.
(Source: gofuckingsource, via spacedoutforever)
The changing Modernist face of Wilshire Boulevard in the late 1950’s.
Aerial view of Van Nuys, looking northeast over Van Nuys Boulevard and City Hall, 1960.
I can see my old house.
Looking west on Culver Boulevard, Culver City, 1929.
Ah, the sleepy hamlet of Culver. Far removed from the rest of Los Angeles. It is here that people go about their daily lives with quiet dignity, waving good-morning to the mayor in his garden, reading the funnies on the porch, wondering idly if the new Sears, Roebuck & Co. calalog will be arriving this week or the next. Yes, I ‘spect life will be much the same here in Culver for quite some time.
(Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu, via losangelespast)
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