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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson

I always have a hard time with new perspectives. If this is Commercial then we've never seen this part of it close up nor from this angle and never with this high res. All that said, I can't find any point of reference that I recognize. If this is Commercial then the high ground is beyond the river and the density of nice, well laid out houses seems unlike what I think of when I conjure Commercial Street this far off of Alameda. Here's an image of what I believe to be Aliso, not Alameda, (from earlier in the thread) which (as you well know) runs parallel to Commercial. If this is Aliso, this would be somewhat closer in-town but not by too much. Always hard to tell, but seems to me the houses and properties in this shot are more ramshackle and I can't really believe they'd be less so the farther you get from town and one block south on Commercial.


N. Alameda St.(?) near Commercial St. in 1924

Berkeley-Bancroft

LAPast posits this as Ducommon street. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9225 FWIW, the below Calisphere source labels the image: :"Old buildings at N. Alameda and Commercial Sts., looking towards 612 N Alameda" The image, is part of a large image collection devoted or related to "Pneumonic Plague Outbreak Sites and Rats in Los Angeles." https://calisphere.org/collections/17324/ The images are presumably from 1924-25. (There are likely other images covering the same or similar subject matter or variations of the same from other repositories, e.g., LAPL)

Rats and plague are no strangers to NLA. ER posted images from this collection as have others, for example: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=11153 Many of the previous NLA posted rat-related images are part of this collection. Some not. It is also unclear what some of the images have to do with the subject other than the general date and perhaps being in the periphery, e.g., the Grand Central Market? Here's a sm[r]attering, in no particular order. Yes, we have seen some before.











"Rat Holes"



Grand Central Mkt.





747 Lyon (Aliso) Street





Backside of



Mule Yards, Hall of Justice in distance



Jewel Stables





Ramona Stables



GasOmeters



752 S Hill Street





626 S Main






219 S Hill (Before Clean up)






219 S Hill (After)









1500 E Fourth Street




330 S Alameda






Foreman W. H. Kings sub-station crew - Chinatown crew - Apaplasa and So. Alameda Sts




Disinfection Crew - E. 6th St. and Imperial








Shacks rear of So. Alameda at Apaplasa St.




612 Alameda Tortilla Factory




Rear of 612 Alameda






Shacks





749 N Alameda






414 N Alameda "Noodle Factory"





Jackson and San Pedro Streets




Near Aliso and N. Alameda





Seventh and Central (After)






14th and Central




2039 E Seventh Street (Before)





2039 E Seventh Street (After)






First and (Rat) Central





Demolition Professionals





135 E Second Street





Jackson and San Pedro, Hotel Higoya - Japanese Section






333 N Jackson






Central and First




Frank's Restaurant





Hotel Madison




Junk yard at 8th and San Julian Strs.







Lyon (Aliso) and N. Vignes






Deconstruction Crew at 1010 W 3rd Street, Hotel Irving in background






Sanitary Poultry





344 S. Alameda Upholstery