Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Elevated view of the three-story Italianate Temple Block building with streetcar and horse-drawn carriages in front, at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. The clock tower of the old Los Angeles County Courthouse can be seen directly behind the Temple Block building and the four-story Nadeau Hotel building at Spring and First Street can be seen under construction at upper right. With visible signs on the Temple building for "Jacoby Bro's Clothing House" and "County Bank." A sign for "Books" can be seen on the Downey Block building at lower right of image; "California Confectionary and Candy Works" and "Restaurant" can be seen on a building on Main Street in the background at left; and signs for "H. Jevne" and "City Wholesale Dry Goods, Clothing ..." can be seen on building on Spring Street at right.
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Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, focused around the three-story Italianate Temple Block building on Spring Street, at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street; in the background a two-story building with the sign "El Dorado Store" visible (listed at 76 Main Street in an 1873 advertisement in the Los Angeles Herald).
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Street view looking north on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, as seen presumably from about the intersection with Requena Street (later Market Street) with the three-story Italianate Temple Block building visible in the background at center left next to two buildings of decreasing height that were also part of the Temple Block, with the two-story building at closest left housing the Wells Fargo & Co. Express office. At right, storefront signs can be seen including a sculpture of a boot with the sign "Boots & Shoes" and an obscured sign including the letters "ne Haba." With a horse-drawn wagon, wooden sidewalk, and dirt road visible.
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Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, focused on the Spring Street face of the three-story Italianate Temple Block building at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street; in the background a two-story building, the Lanfranco building, with the sign "El Dorado Store" is visible (listed at 76 Main Street in an 1873 advertisement in the Los Angeles Herald). New High Street is visible in the foreground with houses including a yard with laundry drying on a clothesline in a yard behind a fence in the foreground has handwritten signs "Fishing tackle of Liddle & Kaeding 538 Wash. St., SF" and "Dr. J.C. Young Cures All Chronic Diseases 618 Sac St. S.F."
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View of houses on Second Street (in the foreground) and Olive Street (running perpendicular at upper right) in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California. Visible residences on Second Street include the matching one-story houses in the foreground: 426 West Second Street (with horse and wagon to its left) and, at right, 428 West Second Street (208 South Olive Street is visible directly next to 428 West Second). Visible residences on Olive Street include: 227 South Olive Street on the hill at far upper right with 235 South Olive Street directly to the left; across the street, towards center is 226 South Olive Street and the duplex behind it (with balconies running the length of both stories) is 230/232 South Olive Street.
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Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, as seen looking east from Poundcake Hill and focused on the multi-story commercial buildings on the block of Spring Street between the intersection of Spring and Main Street (not visible, at left) to Market Street (not visible, at right), including the three-story Italianate Temple Block building located at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street and the Louis Lewin & Co. storefront, with partially visible sign near center (14 Spring Street). New High Street is visible in the foreground with houses including a yard with laundry drying on a clothesline in a yard behind a fence in the foreground has handwritten signs "Fishing tackle of Liddle & Kaeding 538 Wash. St., SF" and "Dr. J.C. Young Cures All Chronic Diseases 618 Sac St. S.F."
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