Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958 and Myers & Co. - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A different photograph shows the location as Fort Moore Hill near the Broadway Tunnel. A billboard ad for the movie Tarzan and his Mate dates the photograph to 1934. (uclamss_1429_5558)
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A group of people gathered around a platform beside a Myers & Co. steam shovel look up towards men on a platform. On the platform, cordoned off with a stars and stripes fabric, Mayor Frank L. Shaw speaks into a microphone as other men on the platform listen.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: View towards the Broadway Tunnel and Fort Moore Hill from the intersection of Spring Street from the intersection with Sunset Blvd. (now Cesar Chavez Avenue). At the base of the hill a group of people gather around Myers & Co. On a platform cordoned off with a stars and stripes fabric the group of men includes Mayor Frank L. Shaw, and another man speaks into a microphone. Signs read "Myers & Co., Excavating Contractors, MU.6306". A billboard advertisement for the movie "Tarzan and his Mate" dates the photograph to 1934. A second billboard reads "No extra cost for Tetraethyl, the higher anti-knock Leader". A sign on a large house on top of the hill, known as the Banning Mansion, reads "Apartments".
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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