Pico House and Merced Theater, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, Los Angeles, 1929

Item Overview

Title

Pico House and Merced Theater, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, Los Angeles, 1929

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

1929

Date

1929

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Street view of Pico House, 3-story hotel, with Main Street, street railroad tracks, and parked cars in foreground, sign reading National Hotel, and Merced Theater and other buildings at right. Other business signs include: Yin King Low, Chinese Chop Suey and Noodles; Baby Ruth Gum; Chicos; El Pas[o] Lunch Room; Barberia Mexicana; Orfila and Beach Employment Agency; Karl's Shoes, Kustom Made; Banos

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2022 - 2023 Old Pico House, Los Angeles. 213R1694, 4, TLW. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. Still standing, opposite the Plaza is the old Pico House, now the National Hotel, which served as the city's most elaborate hostelery a half century ago. It was the terminus of the Los Angeles-San Francisco six horse stages before the railways. To the extreme right of the hotel is the first theater, the Merced, opened in 1870 in Los Angeles.
Handwritten at edge of negative: 2023 P [?] PLAZA LA 1929 NATIONAL HOTEL - OLD PICO HOUSE

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Merced Theater (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pico House (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

California--Los Angeles

Longitude

34.05656608660292

Latitude

-118.23946058750152

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Entertainment
Landmarks
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.)