[SoCal1954]

Originally Posted by WS1911

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Thanks for posting the photo of the bookstore. In the 60s I got off the streetcar or bus on Broadway and walked out 5th to the Central Library many, many times. I always stopped at the newsstand/bookstore. Don't remember the name of it, though.

Here are a couple more shots of the Willoughby Hotel from 1913.


USC Digital Library http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...hterm/CHS-5822



USC Digital Library http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...hterm/CHS-5819

Interesting photos!!

The first one, in which the street is obviously unpaved, has a street scene feel, right out of the Grapes of Wrath; it looks like a lot of newbies to SoCal in the immediate area?

The next photo, at least several years later, the street appears to be paved? Question: Is that statue of what appears to be a soldier, still in the park? I have not been to downtown on foot for many years--my ankle bracelet seems to limit me to Pasadena/Altadena. LOL