Subject: Historic buildings--California--Los Angeles County / Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc. / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: ANSWER:The photo shows Angels Flight as it crosses over Clay St. ("It is here angels do not have feet of clay" -- wow!) And a nickel does give you a lot of pull here because the cost of a round-trip ticket on this, the city's smallest franchised railroad, is -- 5 cents. But you probably guessed it. That angular car was a dead giveaway
Date:: November 20, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Declared Historic-Cultural Monument #4 by the City of Los Angeles in 1962.
Date:: May 28, 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: Of course -- building in the photo is Patriotic Hall at 1816 S Figueroa St., headquarters and meeting place of various service organizations.
Date:: December 27, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Declared Historic-Cultural Monument #212 by the City of Los Angeles in 1979.
Date:: March 12, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: ANSWER: Sure, it's the artistically modern statuary that overlooks the entrance to Hollywood Bowl. You've seen it hundreds of times. Its construction in 1940 was one of the last acts of the depression-- a WPA art project
Date:: December 5, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: There were a million landmarks to tell you that the camera was pointed north from the City Hall tower. In the foreground are the top of the Federal Building and the Hollywood-Santa Ana Freeway. Off to the right are the clump of trees that is the Plaza and beyond it the Post Office Terminal Annex. At the extreme left N Broadway heads toward the tree-covered hills of Elysian Park.
Date:: June 3, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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