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Old 11-30-2010, 04:46 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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1920's Los Angeles: Pershing Square (Central Park), Downtown, Chinatown, Olvera Street, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAUlD...eature=related

1927: Life in Hollywood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLMH...eature=related
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Old 11-30-2010, 04:32 PM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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1920's Los Angeles: Pershing Square (Central Park), Downtown, Chinatown, Olvera Street, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAUlD...eature=related

1927: Life in Hollywood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLMH...eature=related
Thanks for sharing. My parents moved to Los Angeles in 1932 right after my sister was born and dad graduated from college in Colorado.

Nita
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Old 12-02-2010, 08:27 PM
 
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more trees in LA in general would be nice. and a subway from downtown to santa monica.
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Old 12-03-2010, 12:20 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles area
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Default Excellent book on Los Angeles history

You folks who have posted historical pics might also be interested in John Buntin's book L.A. Noir. It focuses on the city's police department and its fight against organized crime, with special focus on two people: mobster Mickey Cohen and long-time former police chief William Parker. I had always known there was a lot of corruption here before the mid 1950's but I hadn't realized how much!
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Old 12-05-2010, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Earth
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You folks who have posted historical pics might also be interested in John Buntin's book L.A. Noir. It focuses on the city's police department and its fight against organized crime, with special focus on two people: mobster Mickey Cohen and long-time former police chief William Parker. I had always known there was a lot of corruption here before the mid 1950's but I hadn't realized how much!
Before and after...
That's definitely on my list of books to read.
In the '20s my family were immigrants and small children of immigrants living on the south side of Chicago, and nobody would come west until after WW2. That period of L.A. does fascinate me - the era when L.A. really became a big city. I remember seeing pictures on the wall at Greenblatt's Deli of when they first opened up in that period, when the Strip was a dirt road.
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Old 12-05-2010, 09:13 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Those are fascinating films. I wonder if "Baby Priscilla" is still alive. According to IMDB she was born in 1917. LA was an incredible place in the '20's.
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Old 12-05-2010, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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The population of the City of Los Angeles (U.S. Census):

1900: 102,000
1910: 319,000
1920: 576,000
1930: 1,238,000
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Old 12-06-2010, 01:53 AM
 
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Look how clean it looked back then. I wonder why...
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Old 12-06-2010, 05:21 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Look how clean it looked back then. I wonder why...
Because YOU weren't around then!
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Old 12-06-2010, 06:07 PM
 
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Because YOU weren't around then!
Sassy!
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