Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Landmarks

Angel's Flight:

(PIC) Angel's Flight - Souvenir Ticket, Los Angeles, California. Built by Colonel J.W. Eddy, personal friend of President Lincoln, Angel's Flight is the world's shortest railway. It travels a 33% grade for 315 feet and has carried more passengers per mile than any other railroad in the world - 100 million in its first 50 years.

(PIC) "Angel's Flight" with Los Angeles City Hall in background.

(PIC) Angel's Flight after its recent restoration (as it appears today, quite out of its original element)

Griffith Park and Observatory:

(PIC) Planetarium and Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California - is situated on the western slope of Mount Hollywood in a setting of natural beauty, with a commanding view of Los Angeles, Hollywood, and the blue Pacific.

(PIC) Los Angeles, California. Griffith Observatory and Planetarium. Here lectures are given in a circular auditorium under mysteries of the heavens.

Cultural Sites:

(PIC) Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California. Taco stands, Night Clubs, and Gift Shops all operated by Mexicans in their colorful native costumes.

(PIC) Cielito Lindo, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Calif. A puesto on historical Olvera Street, serving the "Original Olvera Street Style Taquitos", with their famous Avocado Chili Sauce. a taste treat never-to-be-forgotten.

(PIC) New Chinatown. Art and Gift shops. Herb and spice shops. Oriental nightclubs and restaurants, comprise the buildings of chinatown, following the traditional style of Oriental architecture.

(PIC) Colorful Gateway Entrance to New Chinatown, Los Angeles, California. Here East meets West in a colorful setting of picturesque Old World curio shops and restaurants just minutes away from the Civic Center of Los Angeles.

(PIC) Civic Center, Los Angeles, California. Newly constructed Civic Center taken from the Japanese quarter.

Downtown Views:

(PIC) Sixth and Broadway, Los Angeles, California. A busy thoroughfare in the heart of the Civic Center.

(PIC) Seventh Street at Broadway. Los Angeles, California. This is the hub of activity upon which the city of Los Angeles revolves. Its daily passing parade reflects a true cross section of the population of this metropolis of the west.

(PIC) Spectacular view of Los Angeles Civic Center with Sierra Madre Mountains in background.

(PIC) Los Angeles, California. Aerial View showing Chavez Ravine - in center (site of Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium). Familiar scene of Los Angeles civic center with net work of freeways in foreground. Beyond Chavez Ravine lies scenic Glendale, Montrose, La Crescenta, and La Canada. Famous Descanso Gardens lie in the La Canada area.

(PIC) Los Angeles, California. The ever-changing skyline - this view shows the famous freeways, the Water & Power Building, the new Pavilion of the Music Center and in the background the City Hall, a world-famous landmark.

(PIC) The City at Night. Los Angeles, the third largest city in the United States, looking southward from the City Hall tower.

(PIC) Los Angeles, California. Beautiful view of the Los Angeles Skyline as seen from the Hollywood Hills. In the foreground can be seen the Hollywood freeway as it winds its way between Los Angeles and Hollywood.

(PIC) Los Angeles Civic Center. New look from Hollywood Freeway with Los Angeles' tallest structure, the City Hall, 464 ft. high, with federal Building and Hall of Justice.

(PIC) Civic Center, Los Angeles, California. The famous Hollywood Freeway entering the Los Angeles Civic Center. The City Hall is on the left - The U.S. court House and Post Office on the right.

(PIC) Freeway "Stack" Los Angeles, California. An engineering masterpiece. Four levels of steel and concrete, branching into the "Hollywood", "Harbor", "Santa Ana", and "Arroyo Seco" freeways. L.A. Civic Center in distance.

(PIC) Harbor Freeway, Los Angeles, California. Looking east toward Pasadena and Sierra Madre Mountains.

(PIC) Los Angeles trolley at the intersection of 2nd and Broadway nine months before the trolley cars were discontinued on March 31st, 1963.

(PIC) Figueroa Street Tunnels, Los Angeles, California. The beginning of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, part of Los angeles' super-highways, which tunnels through beautiful Elysian Park on its way to Pasadena.

Downtown Hotels:

(PIC) The Biltmore Hotel. The largest hotel in western america. 1,500 King Size Rooms. Situated between two tropical parks in heart of business district. Completely air conditioned. Television. Radio. Biltmore Bowl seats 1,500. Rendezvous Dining and Dancing Noon till Midnight. Exhibition Hall - 16,900 Square Feet. Inside Parking for 4,000 cars surrounding Hotel.

(PIC) The Statler Center. Los Angeles, California. The Statler Center, comprising office building, shops and hotel, is one of Los Angeles' smartest ultramodern buildings.

(PIC) Starlite Motor Hotel. 250 So. Silverlake Blvd. Los Angeles, California. DUnkirk 5-9151. Located along the Hollywood Freeway midway between Los Angeles' Civic Center and Hollywood. Features Glass enclosed heated swimming pool, sound-proofed rooms, coffee shop, T.V., Hi Fi, telephones and air conditioning in every room.

(PIC) "Where You Feel at Home" San Carlos Hotel. Fifth and Olive Streets, Los Angeles 13, California. MAdison 8-2291. Downtown, overlooking beautiful Pershing Square, Opposite Biltmore Hotel. Walking distance to Airlines, Bus Terminal and Railway offices. Moderate Prices. A Fireproof garage adjoins the Hotel.

Union Station:

(PIC) South Patio, Union Station, Los Angeles, California. Typically Californian in its spacious and beautiful Spanish architecture, the Los Angeles Union Station provides a setting which typifies to visitors the charm and hospitality of Los Angeles and Southern California.

(PIC) Los Angeles, California. Breathtaking view of dynamic Los Angeles, showing Freeways, Union Station, and Terminal Annex Post Office.

County General Hospital:

(PIC) Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, California. The County Hospital is one of the largest and best equipped in the world. It covers 56 acres, with 123 buildings, where an average of four thousand patients are treated daily.

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