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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