View from the inside the clock tower of the old Los Angeles Times Building as it was being prepared for the May 1938 demolition, with three men in hard hats among wooden beams. The newly completed Los Angeles Times Building can be seen through triple arch opening in the tower wall.
Bird's-eye view of the Griffith Observatory facing south towards the straight line of Los Feliz Boulevard in the distance. The observatory appears to be in the final phase of completion, with the Astronomers Monument in place but with the parts of the walkway and the south end of E. Observatory Avenue unpaved.
Huntington Park's first city hall was built in 1914, rebuilt after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, and replaced by a new building in 1946. This design does not resemble the 1914, 1933 or 1946 buildings.
Hollyhock was built in 1919-1921 for oil heiress, Aline Barnsdall. In 1927 Barnsdall donated the house and acreage to the city of Los Angeles thus creating the Barnsdall Art Park. Declared Historic-Cultural Monument #12 by the City of Los Angeles in 1963.
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 27, 1938, Rancho Santa Anita, A Los Angeles County Beauty Spot. For many years closed to the public, the thirty-acre Rancho Santa Anita Park, with its lake, fifty-one varieties of shrubs and trees, some of them the largest in Southern California, and its historic buildings of the late E.J. (Lucky) Baldwin occupancy, now is open …