Genre: cellulose nitrate film and bird's-eye views / Subject: Transportation - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Bird's-eye view of crashed street car at First and Hill Streets, with hill in foreground, police officers and crowd gathered at intersection in midground, buildings, parking lot, and billboards in background
Date:: February 8, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Boulevard, looking northeast from 2nd Street, with parked and moving cars, pedestrians, street railroad tracks, and businesses. Business signs include: Majestic, Barrymore in The Lotus Eater, H.H. Webb & Co. Transfer & Storage, Braden-Van Bergen Realty Co., Ocean Park Bank, Bay Cities Guaranty, W.A. Lady Optician, W.A. Lady Optometrist, Diamonds
Date:: 1921
[1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bird's-eye view of Roosevelt Highway (Pacific Coast Highway), including the present bridge over Topanga Creek and the new bridge under constructin in the center beyond two rows of small cabins. Houses, cars, about 3 people, and construction debris in foreground, Coca-Cola sign in left middleground on the "De Long" cafe, cars on highway, ocean and hills in background. A sign on the highway next to the cabins reads: "Topanga Beach Auto Camp."
Date:: February 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 9, 1937, Eight Persons Injured When Street Car Runs Wild on First Street Grade. … brakes on the street car failed to work as it descended steep First-street slope west of Hill street. … Eight persons were injured as the heavy vehicle smashed through the barrier at bottom of hill, careened across busy thoroughfare, crushed a small brick restaurant on the corner, mangled two automobiles and half tipped over against another light pole before stopping. …
Date:: February 8, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bird's-eye view of Roosevelt Highway (Pacific coast Highway), including the bridge over Topanga Creek, with hills, houses, and construction of new bridge underway at left, "De Long" cafe with Coca-Cola sign at right, cars on highway, crane at right, ocean and hills in background. Beyond the creek bed is a long row of small vacation cabins with a sign reading "Cabins" next to the cabin on the highway.
Date:: February 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Caption for a similar photograph for the article reads: Picture shows present Roosevelt Highway bridge across Topanga Creek at right with the new bridge under construction in the middle background, the view being across the lagoon area to be filled.
Date:: February 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Birdseye view down Main Street during construction to widen the street. The street is vacant of pedestrians and cars and there are five pedestrians on the sidewalks. There are three vacant lots where the buildings were demolished along the left side of the street. Signs on buildings on the right read: "U.S. Shoe Renewing Co., Carlson & Sons...," "New & Used Clothing, Cleaning, Pressing," Kolb's Grocery Delicatessen," The Minnesota Apts., Rooms, 1, 2, & 3 rooms, furnished 2925," "Crescent Apts, Rooms By Day, Week or Month," "Main Bargain," "Hardware," "Hawley...sewing machine..."
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Birdseye view down Main Street after construction to widen the street. The street is full of cars. There are three vacant lots where the buildings were demolished along the left side of the street. A sign on a building on the left reads: "Craig's Market, Meat, Fruit, Vegetables." Signs on buildings on the right read: "U.S. Shoe Renewing Co., Carlson & Sons...," "New & Used Clothing, Cleaning, Pressing," Kolb's Grocery Delicatessen," The Minnesota Apts., Rooms, 1, 2, & 3 rooms, furnished 2925," "Crescent Apts, Rooms By Day, Week or Month," "Main Bargain," "Hardware," "Hawley...sewing machine..."
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Bird's-eye view of crowd on lakeshore, with rowboats and canoes on lake, some moored, some in motion, with American flag in foreground and lakeshore with trees in background
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Bird's-eye view of Powell Street and Nob Hill, from approximately Powell Street and Sutter Street, with automobile and cable car tracks at right, buildings at left, and Mark Hopkins Hotel in background
Date:: July 20, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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