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Cafe Caliente, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Cal

Description: Image of mariachi musicians holding guitars and standing with waiters at the entrance to the Cafe Caliente located at 20 Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California, an outdoor patio area covered with an awning is seen at right. Lettering is printed on the window at left which reads: "Cafe Caliente luncheon .60 cents served from 11:30 to 3 pm dinner deluxe $1.00 served from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Todays menu Mexican and American dinners dancing"
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Date: not before 1936
Call number: photCL_555_06_1640
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El Paseo de Los Angeles (Olvera Street)

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Image of a group Mariachi musicians with sombreros and guitars posing with women in Mexican costume and children seated on El Paseo de Los Angeles, present day Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California with shops at left.

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Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Calif

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Image of a woman leaning against an automobile while watching a group of Mariachi musicians playing instruments, including a double base, violin, and guitar, while standing at the edge of Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California, onlookers, shops, and the Los Angeles City Hall tower are seen in the background.

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El Paseo de Los Angeles (Olvera St.)

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Image of a woman dressed in Mexican costume standing with a man dressed in a Mariachi costume holding a guitar in front of an adobe building at El Paseo de Los Angeles on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California. There are other men in Mariachi costume seated on the porch behind them.

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Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Cal

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Image of people walking down Olvera Street with open-air street vendor stands selling souvenirs poised on either side in Los Angeles, California.

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Street scene, Los Angeles

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View of buildings, a bicycle, and automobiles on a city street in an unidentified location. A doorman stands under the awning of the building at right, possibly a hotel. Lampposts are on the corner and people are walking on the sidewalks.

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Oldest house in Los Angeles, Olvera Street, L.A., Cal

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Image of a man looking at the front steps of the Avila Adobe, the oldest house in Los Angeles on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California. Dried corn and clay pots hang near the stairway, with a sign about the adobe that reads: "The Avila Adobe. This is the oldest and most historic building in Los Angeles. Built in 1818 by Don Francisco Avila it was occupied as American headquarters in 1847. The rooms are furnished in the period of the early California. Olvera Street is the first main thoroughfare of Los Angeles."

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Cafe Caliente, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Cal

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