Subject: Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Anita Aros (center) poses with other costumed actors as they prepare for a fiesta on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Consuela de Bonzo and her husband established the first Los Angeles Mexican restaurant in 1924, La Golondrina café near the present day City Hall.
Date:: ca. 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A group of tourists (identified as "Dream Trippers" in a handwritten notation on the negative) walk down historic Olvera Street near downtown Los Angeles.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Related to the article, "Olvera Street Service Honors Departed Friend," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1936: A2.
Date:: 1936-01-11
January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The children delighted in the festivities surrounding Olvera Street, donning velvet jackets and embroidered dresses. There was an acrobatic monkey performing, as well as the Mascaras, whose masks were created by Ramon Rodriguez.
Date:: April 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mourners pray at a temporary altar at the Olvera Street memorial service for Los Angeles Times columnist Harry Carr. The altar contains a small statue of the Virgin Mary and a Crucifix. Six women and one man kneel and five men stand in prayer, holding lit candles. A painted brick wall has more lit candles on its ledge and the lower portion of an image of the Virgin Mary is also visible. A table with a checked table cloth on the right suggests that the location might be a restaurant (perhaps Casa La Golondrina at 17 Olvera St., owned by Consuela De Bonzo, a Mexican community leader who spoke at the service).
Date:: January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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