Thirtyfour parking lots in Los Angeles

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  Parking Lots

  Manuscripts

  1 item: LAT clip, Jack Smith's column for 8/23/1988, "The Father of Los Angeles' parking lots."

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  University of California, Los Angeles, Westwood, Los Angeles. 1932

  Visual Materials

  A panoramic view of the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, facing west. College Library (now Powell Library) is in the center, with the Education Building (now Moore Hall)(?) on its left and Royce Hall on its right. The photograph was taken from a parking lot. There are other lots filled with parked automobiles between the camera and the campus buildings.

  photCL 470 (118)

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  George Gershwin memorial concert, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland, Los Angeles. September 8, 1937

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  A view from the back of the Hollywood Bowl, located at 2301 North Highland in Los Angeles, facing the stage, of the George Gershwin memorial concert, which took place two months after the composer's death. The stage is filled by a full orchestra and multiple pianos. The parking lots in the background are filled with parked automobiles.

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  Easter Service, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland, Los Angeles. 1932

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  A large crowd of people fills the seats of the Hollywood Bowl at 2301 North Highland in Los Angeles for an Easter Service. The audience faces the stage where the service is being conducted, from both their seats in the bowl and on the surrounding hills. The very full parking lots are visible in the background.

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  Parking lot, circa 1937

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  View of a large number of cars on a paved and lined parking lot. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 143 Auto parking space, about 1937."

  photCL 107 vol4 pg133 (143)

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  Los Angeles – Parks

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  This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California, from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are many card photographs by early professional photographers, and also a number of snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides photographs, a portion of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards, menus, event programs and other materials. Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is a large set of promotional photographs made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation. An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and other historical details. There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic prints; 7 photograph albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of chromolithographs.

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