Manuscripts
Los Angeles - Streets - Western Avenue
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Los Angeles - Streets - Broadway
Manuscripts
2 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1931, a history of LAT, including (most importantly for this file) a photograph titled, "When Broadway was in its infancy," taken ca. 1890, with the LAT building in the background ; tear sheet of Metro section Pg. 1, 11/20/1987, featuring a story with headline, "Broadway glory...the hope is alive"; 3 postcards circa 1920s-1950s with views of Broadway.
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Los Angeles - Tourism
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: copies of LAT clips--editorials, ads and promotions--1901 - 1919, related to tourism and real estate ; booklet, undated, "10 Fun auto trips with a day's drive of Los Angeles," prepared by American Petroleum Institute and presented by LAT ; copy LAT editorial, "The cliché that never dies," 1/2/1962 ; 1976 Art Seidenbaum column, "Tourist industry lacks industry."
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Los Angeles - Streets - Obsolete
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Approx. 100 sheets. Photocopied sheets containing information from the Bureau of Engineering, Dept. of Public Works. Cover sheet reads: "Obsolete Streets" (1974), "Prepared from the Street name card file of Index to Records Section, Bureau of Engineering. Compiled in 1980 - 1981..." Also, newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Times about street names.
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Los Angeles - Streets - Sunset Boulevard
Manuscripts
2 items: clip from LAT, 12/18/1988, photos (2) and brief essay on Sunset Blvd. with headline, "Street of Contrasts in a Changing L.A." and referral to Page 20, where the story "Sunset Boulevard...epitome of L.A." was also clipped.
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Los Angeles - Streets - Wilshire Boulevard
Manuscripts
2 items: street map (with street widths and block lengths, in feet) titled "Robinson Plan for the development of Wilshire Boulevard between Park View and Figueroa Streets," no date ; LAT editorial, 3/29/1924, "Widening Wilshire Boulevard."
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Los Angeles Plaza and Olvera Street
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Approx. 25 items: 8-pp. (stapled) on L.A. history which begins, "Our city's beginnings go back to 1769," which was the year explorer Portola and his expedition camped on the river very near present-day downtown ; newspapers and magazine article copies, brochures, maps and other ephemera ; original issue of Terra, Natural History Magazine of the West, Winter 1981, featuring article, "Los Angeles Plaza--living symbol of our past" (pp. 14) ; etc.
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