Two workers move a crated palm tree off of a flat bed truck as four people watch from the steps of City Hall. They are on the Spring Street side of the building.
Three workers stand beside a crated palm tree and mounds of soil, as two men watch from a walkway in front of City Hall. They are on the Spring Street side of the building.
Photograph of Tacoma Winkler standing on the tree lawn opposite her home and posing. A sidewalk lines the bottom edge of the image. It is lined by a tree lawn and curb. Tacoma Winkler stands at center, in the grass of the tree lawn, and looks to the camera. A palm stands to the left of her and a lamp post stands to the right. Wellington Road stretches across the image behind her. On the far side of the street, her family's home at 1639 Wellington Road stands in partial view, right-of-center. It is viewed from the front. A car is parked on the far side of the street at left and extends beyond the left frame.
Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
These palm trees are among the oldest trees in Los Angeles, planted ca. 1865 along Palm Drive near the Charles Longstreet residence, later near the Holton Arms apartment building, later still standing on the grounds of Orthopaedic Hospital on West Adams Blvd.
About 4 tall palm trees, photographed from edge of roof or upper floor patio of Holton Arms apartment building, with St. Vincent Catholic Church in background
Photograph published with article, "Tributes to Washington Planted: Palms Bearing His Name to Decorate Street in Venice," Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 1932: A1.