[Los Angeles Past]

Originally Posted by gsjansen

two views looking north on main street past the temple block and temple street from the same spot (and altitude) of the se corner of main and market......62 years apart

1863


Source: USC Digital Archive http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-2821?v=hr

1925


Source: USC Digital Archive http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...CHS-35903?v=hr

This is a great "then-and-then"! Could the latter pic have been taken from the very tip-top of the NW cupola of the U.S. Hotel? Is that the tower of the Amestoy that I see there in the right foreground?

And in the earlier view - it looks like the exact same vantage point. Can it be possible that the United States Hotel stood there as early as 1863?

-Scott