[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by Chuckaluck

1907 - Fifth St. looking east from Spring St. At right, folks congregating under pepper tree. Hitching post or street marker?
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067391.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

It's hard to tell. It would have to have iron rings if it were a hitching post. -but it's at the right spot for a hitching post
...near the gated entrance.
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Looks to me like there might be a ring on top. Btw the LAPL has this image listed twice, with slight variations in the reproduction. It labels one "1907" and the other "1880s"--surely Spring and 5th was built up with more commercial buildings by 1907....