Genre: black-and-white photographs / Subject: Hotels--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of the Marmion Hotel, viewed from close-up, on Marmion way. An inclined drive stretches across the foreground, rising towards the right. Beyond it stands the Marmion Hotel in partial view. The curved corner of the brick building lines the left edge of the image. The front of the building wraps around towards the right and faces right. Windows line all 4 visible floors at left. The entrance to the hotel stands at far right. It stands elevated from the driveway and is covered by an awning. A neon sign hanging from the the awning reads, "HOTEL." Signs on the brick entry porch read, "Marmion HOTEL RATES REASONABLE 3903," and "MARMIO[N] HOTE[L]." A sign in middle ground floor window reads, "FOR RENT [...]."
Date:: February, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of the Marmion Hotel on Marmion Way, viewed at a distance. Marmion Way spans the image in the near distance. It is partially obscured by some shrubbery and low wooden posts. Beyond it stands a single-story building in partial view at left and the Marmion Hotel behind and to the right of it. The building at left extends beyond the left frame and curves to the right. A driveway beside it at right leads up a small incline towards the Marmion Hotel. A car drives past it towards the right. The Marmion Hotel is viewed at an angle from the side, facing right. The brick hotel stands 4-stories tall. Its left side faces the camera. A sign painted at the top of the building reads, "MARMION HOTEL." The left side of the building curves around to the front, which faces right. A small porch extends from the front of the building. Behind the hotel, a house stands up on hill in the distance.
Date:: February, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: View towards the two buildings of the Melrose Hotel, on 120-30 Grand Avenue (between First Street and Second Street) on Bunker Hill. On the right is a Victorian mansion with a tall, bell-shaped tower topped by a cupola. On the left is a four-story rectangular building with four pediments decorating the top and a sign reading: "Melrose"
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Street view of Pico House, 3-story hotel, with Main Street, street railroad tracks, pedestrians, and parked cars in foreground, sign reading National Hotel, and Merced Theater and other buildings at right. Other business signs include: El Paso Lunch Room; Barberia Mexicana; Orfila and Beach Employment Agency; Karl's Shoes, Kustom Made; Yama Grocery; Pasajes a Todas Partes, Pickwick Stages; Signs; Second-Hand Furniture; Banos
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: The Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments, formerly the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel, was built in 1925 by E.M. Frasier in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style. The hotel catered to the burgeoning film industry and was a frequent haunt of actors and musicians. The hotel became senior living apartments in the 1970s.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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