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Description:: ANSWER: This replica of the great Lincoln Memorial statue, the figure gazing pensively at the flood-channel Los Angeles River, sits strikingly among other castoff properties behind Republic studios out on Ventura Blvd. The photo was made from the new Colfax Ave. bridge.
Date:: July 16, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: ANSWER: As many of you probably knew, the structure in the photo is the famous Little Brown Church in the Valley. Located at 4418 Coldwater Canyon Ave., North Hollywood, it was built alone by the Rev. John H. Wells, who is still its pastor. Its doors are never locked.
Date:: July 11, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: Nope, it really isn't Bryce Canyon. As you possibly suspected, it is none other than an odd-angled shot of one of the stairways leading from the Santa Monica Palisades down to the beach. Not exactly the best thing we've done…
Date:: July 7, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: ANSWER: The excellently landscaped establishment in the photo is the Eastern Star Home at 11725 Sunset Blvd. in Brentwood. Didn't you notice the star atop the entrance tower? The home, the only one of its kind in California, was built in 1933.
Date:: July 4, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: Of course, what the artistic photograph shows is a portion of the library at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino.
Date:: June 27, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: Shown in the photo is a portion-including its three imposing towers-of the Ramona Convent in Alhambra. Opened by the Sisters of the Holy Names in 1889, it is the Southland's oldest Catholic school for girls. This hill upon which it stands and some surrounding property was presented to the Sisters by the Shorb family, which, at one time, owned most of what is now Alhambra and San Marino. And the convent is named after one of the Shorb daughters, Ramona, and not, as many presume, after the Spanish girl who became Alessandro's bride.
Date:: June 26, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cox, Bruce H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: The eye-catching building is the new headquarters of the Screen Actors Guild at 7750 Sunset Blvd. What else do you need to know?
Date:: June 20, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cox, Bruce H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: In 1961 the Wrigley Estate was given to the city of Pasadena and made headquarters for the Tournament of Roses Association.
Date:: June 19, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cox, Bruce H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: ANSWER: This is going to be brief because the subject of the photo was so obvious: Sure, it is the Eagle Rock in the Annandale Hills and after which the community farthermost in the northeastern section of Los Angeles' city limits is located. Dumb remark: It's been there for years.
Date:: June 14, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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