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Rosslyn Hotels

Description: Three of the four buildings that comprise the Rosslyn Hotels. The first Hotel Rosslyn at right, six-story former Hotel Lexington in the middle, and the 12-story New Hotel Rosslyn with roof top sign at left. The 1914 New Hotel Rosslyn is at the northwest corner of Main and 5th Streets. Businesses occupy the ground level spaces.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: Feb 54
Call number: photCL 486
Creator: Conner, Palmer(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Gina Dunseth, 2004.

Old Rosslyn Hotel

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The first Hotel Rosslyn, 433 South Main Street.

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New Rosslyn Hotels, Los Angeles, California

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Image of the original Rosslyn Hotel (100 West Fifth Street), with the new Rosslyn Hotel (112 West Fifth Street), also known as the hotel annex, across the intersection of Fifth Street and South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. Automobiles, streetcar tracks, a can be seen along with various storefront signs on Fifth Street including "Airline Bus Company Depot" (at 451 West Fifth Street), "Rosslyn Loan & Jewelry Co. Money-Loan" and "Rosslyn Sandwich Shop."

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Hotel Broadway

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Roof and top floor of the hotel are gone. Adjacent stairway paralleled the Court Flight cable railway; it led up to Hill Street. 1955 Ford Customline out front with a 1950-51 Studebaker parked at far left.

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5th and Main Streets

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The former Poinsettia Hotel, 107 East 5th Street, is having one story removed and being modernized for stores. Larger building further down the street is the Hotel King Edward, 121 East 5th Street.

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New Rosslyn Hotels, Los Angeles

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Image looking across South Main Street towards the new Rosslyn Hotel (112 West Fifth Street), also known as the hotel annex, and the original Rosslyn Hotel (100 West Fifth Street), across the intersection of Fifth Street and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. Automobiles, a street light, and a traffic signal can be seen along with various storefront signs on Fifth Street which read "Rhapsody," "Avon," and "Airline Bus Depot."

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5th and Olive Streets, showing scramble system for traffic

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View down South Olive Street at the pedestrian scramble crossing system which allows people to cross diagonally. At right, Googies restaurant, 501 West 5th Street, and San Carlos Hotel, 507 West 5th Street. Across 5th Street is the Biltmore Hotel, 515 South Olive Street.

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