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Los Angeles in the 1920s. The 1920s were a prosperous era for Los Angeles, California, United States, when the name "Hollywood" became synonymous with the U.S. film industry and the visual setting of Los Angeles became famous worldwide. Plentiful job openings attracted heavy immigration, especially from the rural Midwest and Mexico.
Two highly influential figures in 1880s Los Angeles, John Bryson, Sr., the 19th mayor, of LA and Major George H. Bonebrake, President of the Los Angeles National Bank and the State Loan and Trust Company, commissioned Joseph Cather Newsom to erect this 126-room bank and office building.
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LACHS Photo Database. The Los Angeles City Historical Society has created a new website that offers selected historical photographs from the Los Angeles City Archives. Viewers can search by community name, such as Chinatown, Venice, Westwood, or Downtown Los Angeles. One can also search by subject, such as bridges, streets, dates, and/or other ...
- Macy Street Viaduct, a span of the finished bridge, 1923. The main span of the completed Macy Street viaduct. This river bridge is part of a group of 12 river bridges notable for their role in the transportation history of Los Angeles and their association with Chief Engineer Merrill Butler, one of the most renowned bridge designers of the period.
- Glendale Boulevard, looking north under Sunset Boulevard, 1925. Upvote Downvote.
- Mulholland Highway and Cahuenga Boulevard, 1926. Woodrow Wilson Road, junction with Cahuenga Boulevard from Mulholland Highway. Mulholland Highway later became Mulholland Drive.
- Main Street, 1926. Upvote Downvote.
Nov 27, 2023 · The decade of the 1920s transformed Los Angeles, which was called “The Wonder City of America,” but it came with growing pains. ... and always more suburban homes for the million residents Los ...
Oct 29, 2014 · Downtown's lovely Hall of Justice has been shuttered since the devastating 1994 Northridge quake rumbled through the Los Angeles area, damaging it beyond easy repair. The 1925 Beaux-Arts building,...
Sep 30, 2021 · This Spence Airplane Photos (a company established by Robert E. Spence) aerial is dated 30 September 1924 and taken from 12th Street looking north from Figueroa Street, at left, to Los Angeles Street, at right. The Elysian Hills are at the upper third from left to center and the San Gabriel Mountains tower in the distance.
