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Large crowd celebrates the 1936 New Year, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Description:
Hundreds of people crowd a patio in downtown Los Angeles as they celebrate the New Year. The crowd occupies the majority of the image and are viewed from a bird's'-eye perspective. Most face towards the camera. Some men raise their hats in celebration. Square columns line the left and right sides of the confined space and an elaborate door stands in the background at center.
Date:
[between December 31, 1935 and January 1, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Large crowd celebrates the 1936 New Year, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Lobby of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976.
Date:
[between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Lobby of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Officers S. F. Carter and J. V. Anderson pose with unclaimed items for sale at the semi-annual police auction, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
From front to back, S. F. "Nick" Carter and J. V. Anderson, police officers, pose with unclaimed items up for auction at the semi-annual police auction. S. F. Carter sits in a wheelchair, off-center to the left. He plays a guitar and appears to sing. Directly behind him, J. V. Carter smiles to camera while holding onto a camera. Beside the officers, a large table enters frame at right and extends back towards center. It is cluttered with unclaimed property. Typewriters, vacuum cleaners, shoes, cameras, clocks and tennis rackets are some of the items that sit atop the table. Purses and a pair of ice skates hang above the table at right. Luggage sits in a stack beneath the table.
Date:
December 8, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Officers S. F. Carter and J. V. Anderson pose with unclaimed items for sale at the semi-annual police auction, Los Angeles, 1938

Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
At the center of the photograph is the Whalen Curio Store, which the store's awning advertises as selling Navajo Indian Blankets & Curios. To the right is the Michigan Misfit Clothing store. Above that store, windows on the 2nd floor advertise Doctor Alvarez, Physician.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Gerry Cooke, Western Union messenger, is dispatched to feed pigeons in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
At right, Gerry Cooke, a Western Union messenger, stands, facing left, in Pershing Square. He holds a bag in one hand and drops seed onto the ground with the other. He looks down towards the few pigeons on the ground at left. Behind Gerry Cooke, a line of benches stretches across the image. A few people sit on the benches with their backs to camera and passersby look towards the messenger. Buildings surrounding the square rise in the distance.
Date:
[circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Gerry Cooke, Western Union messenger, is dispatched to feed pigeons in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1938

Vendors wrap up flowers for customers at the flower market, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Two vendors stand in the foreground as they wrap flowers up for customers at the flower market. The vendor nearer to camera stands at left and looks down towards a stack of newspapers in front of him. Behind and to the right of him, another vendor wraps flowers in newsprint as he looks to the right. A large pile of cut flowers sits atop a table in the lower right corner. Beyond the vendors, a thick crowd of customers fills the rest of the market space.
Date:
[circa September, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Vendors wrap up flowers for customers at the flower market, Los Angeles, 1935

Judith Alden and Harry Ross at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Harry Ross applying lipstick to actress Judith Alden. Alden was appearing in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:
April 21, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Judith Alden and Harry Ross at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976
Date:
[between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Female construction workers haul and pour concrete while on the roof of Hotel Figueroa, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
The camera looks down towards several women working on the rooftop of the Y.W.C.A.'s Hotel Figueroa. The women stand on wooden platforms and ramps at center as they bring wheelbarrows of concrete to their work area. A few women stand near the roof's edge. Immediately behind them, an American flag rises from the corner of the building. In the background, downtown Los Angeles sprawls into the distance.
Date:
1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Female construction workers haul and pour concrete while on the roof of Hotel Figueroa, Los Angeles, 1926

Original Los Angeles County Courthouse with scaffolding, 1935

Description:
View from above of the original Los Angeles County Courthouse was built in 1891 on Poundcake Hill on the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The Victorian-style red sandstone building was declared unsafe after a 1933 earthquake, and demolished in 1936. Standing next to it was the Hall of Records.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Original Los Angeles County Courthouse with scaffolding, 1935

Locked doors sign in the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976
Date:
[between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Locked doors sign in the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Forde's Auto Park lot on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
Photograph of Forde's Auto Park at 133 So. Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. Sign indicates that prices to park were 25¢ for evenings, Sundays, and for stays of 6 hours or less, or 35¢ for all day parking during the week. A truck with a sign for A. L. Boyden Co. Bee Supplies, Alhambra Calif. is parked in front of the lot.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Forde's Auto Park lot on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Flower market vendors wrap up flowers for waiting customers, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
A photograph of the same event is captioned, "Typical Flower Men like this will greet you in the early morning hours if you visit the block-long flower market that thrives in downtown Los Angeles. This area plays a stellar role in the Southland's $3,800,00 cut flower business; but always growers are looking out for plant pests and an agricultural inspector attends every market session!," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 1935: G24
Date:
[circa September, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Flower market vendors wrap up flowers for waiting customers, Los Angeles, 1935

Historic location of The Big Pipe Store on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
Photograph of building originally located at 135 S. Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. First floor sign and awning identifies the storefront as The Big Pipe Store, established in 1882 at that location, and a sign in the window indicates that the store would be moving across the street to 112 S. Spring St in August. The proprietor's name (W. F. Ball) is partially visible on the awning. The store was also known as Ball Big Pipe Store, and later became Hugunin's, located at 406 S. Spring Street.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Historic location of The Big Pipe Store on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Henry Hall and another unidentified actor at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Stage and screen actor Henry Hall (left) with another unidentified actor. Hall was playing the character Salem Scudder in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:
April 21, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Henry Hall and another unidentified actor at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Actor Del Lawrence in an American Indian costume at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Stage and screen actor Del Lawrence (also known as Del Stone Lawrence, and Landen Stone Gans) is viewed from the back seated at a desk and reflected in a mirror. He is wearing a costume of an American Indian feather headdress. Lawrence was playing the character of "Wahnotee" (an "Indian Chief") in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:
April 21, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Actor Del Lawrence in an American Indian costume at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Throngs celebrate New Year's 1936 in the streets of downtown, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Description:
Hundreds of people stand in the streets of downtown Los Angeles as they celebrate the New Year. The crowd occupies the majority of the image and are viewed from a bird's'-eye perspective. A couple power lines pass over the crowd on an angle across the image. Streamers and confetti are visible throughout the crowd.
Date:
[between December 31, 1935 and January 1, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Throngs celebrate New Year's 1936 in the streets of downtown, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Grace Cosgrove, Ed Wheeler, Hal Styles, Ailine Wood, & Leonore Cordial, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
Hal Styles dressed in suit and tie holding some documents on his left hand. He is accompanied by three women all wearing hats. Grace Crosgrove, Aline Wood and Leonore Cordial. Ed Wheeler is standing behind Hal Styles. They are standing in the hallway of the Los Angeles Superior court department 14.
Date:
January 5, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Grace Cosgrove, Ed Wheeler, Hal Styles, Ailine Wood, & Leonore Cordial, Los Angeles, 1938

Friday Morning Club members and children gather around a table of toys, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
At center, toys cover a table that sits in a large gallery space. From left to right, Friday Morning Club clubwomen, Cynthia Glatte, Gwen Carlson and Lila Mae Sampson stand around the left, back and right edges of the table, respectively. Both Cynthia Glatte and Lila Mae Sampson hold some of the toys. In front of them, Diane Glatte sits on the front left corner of the table and Paul Frederick sits on a tricycle in front of Lila Mae Sampson. Chairs are lined up against the back wall at right. From the same wall, 4 paintings hang. Light flows into the space from a window along the back wall at left.
Date:
December 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Friday Morning Club members and children gather around a table of toys, Los Angeles, 1935

Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976
Date:
[between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Attendees of the 2nd annual "Sports Headliners Dinner" fill the Times building auditorium, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
The camera views the Times Building's full rose garden auditorium from above. About a hundred or so people, mostly men, sit at long banquet tables during the second annual "Sports Headliners Dinner." The nearest table enters frame from the bottom edge at center and angles back to the left. A few more tables sit to the right of it. At the far end of the tables, a stage stands, off-center to the left. The Tournament of Roses band sits on the stage.
Date:
[circa December 29, 1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Calvert, Paul
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Attendees of the 2nd annual "Sports Headliners Dinner" fill the Times building auditorium, Los Angeles, 1938

Lawyers Norman Bailie and Robert M. Clarke enacting roles as authors of the U.S. Constitution, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Attorney and former Judge Robert M. Clarke adjusts the costume of Lawyer Norman A. Bailie. The men participated in a pageant presented by the Los Angeles Bar Association, "The Making of the Constitution of the United States of America," at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Bailie was portraying Robert Morris of Philadelphia, and the other participants played other authors of the United States Constitution.
Date:
July 19, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Lawyers Norman Bailie and Robert M. Clarke enacting roles as authors of the U.S. Constitution, Los Angeles, 1935

Hundreds crowd the intersection of 7th and Broadway to celebrate New Year’s 1936, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Description:
Hundreds of people stand in the streets of downtown Los Angeles as they celebrate the New Year. The crowd occupies the majority of the image and are viewed from a bird's'-eye perspective. A couple power lines pass over the crowd on an angle across the image. Streamers and confetti are visible throughout the crowd. Broadway and 7th intersect along the top edge at center.
Date:
[between December 31, 1935 and January 1, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Hundreds crowd the intersection of 7th and Broadway to celebrate New Year’s 1936, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Crowd waits to file their tax returns, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:
From the lower left corner, a long counter enters frame and stretches back towards the right. On the right side of the counter, several government employees sit and process income tax returns. On the left side of the counter, people stand at the counter as they file their tax returns. More people waiting to file their returns queue up behind the people at the counter. A sign on the back wall reads, "FIELD DIVISION."
Date:
[circa March 9, 1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Crowd waits to file their tax returns, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Friday Morning Club members pose while cooking for a Christmas luncheon, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Friday Morning Club members: Mrs. Paul Harper, Mrs. Eugene Brown, Mrs. James E. Wilson, Willa A. Prindle and Ann Chase pose behind a prep table while cooking for a Christmas luncheon. The butcher block preparation table stretches across the foreground on an angle back to the right. The women stand in a row on the far side of the table, posing behind mixing bowls. Pots and pans hang from a large rack above them. The kitchen's back wall stretches across the background.
Date:
December 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Friday Morning Club members pose while cooking for a Christmas luncheon, Los Angeles, 1935

Actors Philip Armenta, Nat Leffingwell, and George Kern at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Actors (L to R) Philip Armenta, Nat Leffingwell, and George Kern posing with a canoe. The men were appearing in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:
April 21, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Actors Philip Armenta, Nat Leffingwell, and George Kern at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Actor James Guilfoyle and an unidentified actress at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Actor James Guilfoyle and an unidentified actress, both in blackface. Guilfoyle was appearing in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:
April 21, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Actor James Guilfoyle and an unidentified actress at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Actress Judith Alden and an unidentified actor at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Actress Judith Alden is seated, looking up at an unidentified male actor. Alden was appearing in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:
April 21, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Actress Judith Alden and an unidentified actor at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, 1936

Kidnap victim William F. Gettle after his rescue, possibly at the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, 1934

Description:
Gettle (wearing glasses) is pictured at the center of a group of men in suits. Photo was likely taken the day that he was rescued, when he was taken the the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles. Gettle was taken to the Hall of Justice in the company of one of his kidnappers, Roy Williams, and in order to see if he could identify two other suspects (Jimmy Kirk and June Ward).
Date:
[May 14, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Kidnap victim William F. Gettle after his rescue, possibly at the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, 1934

Howes Building on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
Photograph of the 3-story Howes building on Spring Street between 1st and 2nd Streets in downtown Los Angeles. Also visible are advertisements for lager beer and Old Gold cigarettes, a partial store sign reading Seals, and a restaurant and bakery advertising itself as the "Best Place to Eat."
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Howes Building on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Victoria Hall Mission and other storefronts on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
Photograph of a number of storefronts on Spring Street between 1st and 2nd Streets in downtown Los Angeles. The most prominent sign visible is for the Victoria Hall Mission (also called simply Victoria Hall). Other signs indicate shops offering printing services, Manufacturing Opticians, California Olive & Honey, Navajo Indian Blankets [and Curios], and Whalen Curio [Store].
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Victoria Hall Mission and other storefronts on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Kidnap victim William F. Gettle and an unidentified man shake hands after his rescue, possibly at the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, 1934

Description:
William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:
[May 14, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Kidnap victim William F. Gettle and an unidentified man shake hands after his rescue, possibly at the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, 1934