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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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 looking at the corner of West Fifth Street and Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, and focused on Clune's Auditorium Building, later renamed the Philharmonic Auditorium (427 West Fifth Street), with Henry J. Martin's Auditorium Pharmacy storefront (435 West 5th) at the corner, and the California Club building (451 South Hill Street) visible to the right of the Auditorium; with Central Park (later renamed Pershing Square) at right across the street, and an electric streetcar and automobiles visible.
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View looking north on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a streetcar and horse-drawn wagons and carriages, and visible storefront signs including "American Bakery" (at the northwest corner of First Street and Main) and "Klein Bros. Clothing."
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Image of the 100 block of East 3rd Street looking towards the intersection of Pine Avenue in Long Beach, California, following the March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake, with pedestrians walking in the street amid automobiles, street car tracks, past rubble, bricks, debris, building damage, and the exposed bedroom, bathroom, and living area of a second-floor apartment. Visible storefront signs include: "W.H. Rohlfing, Linoleum Shades and Rods, 122 E. 3rd," "Buffalo Lunch," "Western Shoe Market," and "Owl Drug Co."
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Open skyline between construction of Los Angeles courthouse at 111 North Hill Street and 1st Street on the left and Hall of Justice visible in the right background.
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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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