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Know Your City No.198; Cityscape view looking north from the City Hall tower Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

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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Know Your City No.95 Good Samaritan Hospital building at 1212 Shatto Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

Description:: ANSWER: Of course, it's the back of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, as seen from Wilshire Blvd. And in their surgery they DO have a lot of big operators..
Date:: February 20, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Know Your City No.57 Figure sculptures around top of Los Angeles Elks Lodge (Park Plaza Hotel) building

Description:: ANSWER: High number? Horns? Sure, what else could it be but Los Angeles Elks Lodge 99, located at 607 Park View St., across from MacArthur Park. Now, don't you feel rather foolish for not recognizing it?
Date:: January 13, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Know Your City No.172 Los Angeles City Jail building and surrounding grounds in 1956

Description:: ANSWER: Just to let down the bars and tell you, the building in the photo is the City Jail. The picture was taken from Elysian Park Drive on the west side of the Los Angeles River.
Date:: May 8, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Construction of Angelus Temple with sign reading "Angelus Evangelistic Training School…" in Echo Park, Calif., 1922

Description:: Handwriting on negative states "Echo Park Revival Tabernacle."
Date:: September 27, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Know Your City No.189 Cummings Block building on the northwest corner of E 1st St. and Boyle Ave Los Angeles, Calif.

Description:: ANSWER: The cupolaed structure in the photo is, if you couldn't read the sign, the old Cummings Block on the northwest corner of E 1st St. and Boyle Ave. It was built originally as a hotel and it still is one.
Date:: May 25, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Los Angeles High School at Fort Moore Hill, 1939

Description:: Los Angeles High School on Fort Moore Hill was demolished on June 29, 1936
Date:: June 8, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

New trackless trolleys making first day run in at corner of Sixth St. and Broadway, Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date:: August 5, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Cityscape of downtown Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Date:: October 16, 1974
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cox, Bruce H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Construction of building for California's District 7, State Division of Highways in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: August 8, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Know Your City No.13 View of rotunda and south corridor of Los Angeles City Hall

Description:: ANSWER-- This is too easy. It is south corridor on Spring St. floor of the City Hall. At the end, to the left, the Mayor's office; to the right, offices of City Councilmen. Photo was made from City Hall's rotunda
Date:: November 30, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Know Your City No.133 Four-legged steel girder control tower at Los Angeles International Airport

Description:: ANSWER: To be perfectly plane about it, the structure in the photo could be nothing else but the control tower at Los Angeles International Airport. And if you didn't recognize it, you're just not on the beam.
Date:: March 30, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Urban garden in Bunker Hill with downtown buildings in background, Los Angeles, Calif., 1977

Date:: August 23, 1977
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Malmin, John
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Cityscape with construction of Library Tower [US Bank Tower], Los Angeles, Calif., 1989

Date:: April 17, 1989
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Durell, Robert
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Coles P.E. Buffet at 118 East 6th Street in Los Angeles, Calif., 1988

Description:: Photographer's note: "Coles P.E. Buffet on 6th Street east of Main is one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in L.A. It was a terminal for the old red cars."
Date:: June 10, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lubas, Ken
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Know Your City No.49. "Man and the Machine" sculpture and façade of the east door at Los Angeles County Museum

Description:: Sculpture depicts a barefoot, muscular young man in working clothes in a squatting position. He is holding up a large wheel that rests on the ground in front of him. The interior of the wheel is cast in relief, with wheels, gears, and other symbols of the industrial age.
Date:: January 5, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

View from Otani Hotel of Los Angeles skyline, Calif., 1976

Date:: November 3, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Malmin, John
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Nighttime cityscape seen from city hall tower looking north, during dim-out in Los Angeles, Calif., 1943

Date:: October 29, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Know Your City No.150 Front of main building of John Marshall High School in the Los Feliz-Silver Lake district, Calif., 1956

Description:: ANSWER: The handsome structure in the photo is the main building of John Marshall High School at 3939 Tracy St., in the Los Feliz-Silver Lake district. Inasmuch as the school is named after the great Chief Justice it is only natural that its athletic teams are known as the Barristers.
Date:: April 16, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Know Your City No.167 Exterior of Mirror Building at 2nd and Spring Streets with rolls of newsprint in foreground Los Angeles, Calif.

Description:: ANSWER: The modern structure in the photo could be northing else, of course, but the Mirror Building at 2nd and Spring Sts. And, while artistically symbolic, those rolls of newsprint in the foreground eliminated any possible guesswork.
Date:: May 3, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Know Your City No.198; Cityscape view looking north from the City Hall tower Los Angeles, Calif., 1956

Know Your City No.95 Good Samaritan Hospital building at 1212 Shatto Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

Know Your City No.57 Figure sculptures around top of Los Angeles Elks Lodge (Park Plaza Hotel) building

Know Your City No.172 Los Angeles City Jail building and surrounding grounds in 1956

Construction of Angelus Temple with sign reading "Angelus Evangelistic Training School…" in Echo Park, Calif., 1922

Know Your City No.189 Cummings Block building on the northwest corner of E 1st St. and Boyle Ave Los Angeles, Calif.

Los Angeles High School at Fort Moore Hill, 1939

New trackless trolleys making first day run in at corner of Sixth St. and Broadway, Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Cityscape of downtown Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Construction of building for California's District 7, State Division of Highways in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Know Your City No.13 View of rotunda and south corridor of Los Angeles City Hall

Know Your City No.133 Four-legged steel girder control tower at Los Angeles International Airport

Urban garden in Bunker Hill with downtown buildings in background, Los Angeles, Calif., 1977

Cityscape with construction of Library Tower [US Bank Tower], Los Angeles, Calif., 1989

Coles P.E. Buffet at 118 East 6th Street in Los Angeles, Calif., 1988

Know Your City No.49. "Man and the Machine" sculpture and façade of the east door at Los Angeles County Museum

View from Otani Hotel of Los Angeles skyline, Calif., 1976

Nighttime cityscape seen from city hall tower looking north, during dim-out in Los Angeles, Calif., 1943

Know Your City No.150 Front of main building of John Marshall High School in the Los Feliz-Silver Lake district, Calif., 1956

Know Your City No.167 Exterior of Mirror Building at 2nd and Spring Streets with rolls of newsprint in foreground Los Angeles, Calif.

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