Constructed in 1929, the Gothic Revival style building was originally a residential stock co-operative, was converted to a hotel after the Great Depression, returned to being a stock co-operative in the mid nineteen fifties and converted to condominium titles in 1991. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 800 East Ocean Boulevard
George W. McDill, member of the 1935 Los Angeles Board of Education, sits looking solemn. McDill was a part of the law and rules committee of the Board.
3 boys, identified as Jackie Stone, Raymond Robinson, and possibly Max Tyler, with helmets, brooms, and flag, standing in dusty yard with fence in background
A list accompanying the "negs of plots" images identifies a similar photograph as a brush plot over the north tunnel [in] Devil Canyon, an area north of San Bernardino.
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Photograph of buildings on Royal Street, around the 700 block, in the French Quarter of New Orleans with buildings with wrought iron balconies and a carriage on the cobblestone or brick street. Street car tracks are in the street with electrical lines above. The sign on top of a building reads "The King of Wheat Foods. UneedaBiscuit..."
