I've always loved Pershing square. Here's a bunch of pix over the years:
Love this one. This church in the foreground was removed to build the Biltmore. Looking South, 1884:
Looking North, 1885 at the sight of the biltmore:
Looking Southwest 1920's
Here's a close up of the Philharmonic/Auditorium in 1920
This picture is printed backwards but it looks north and shows the biltmore and the philharmonic before it's Art Deco facelift in 1925
Looking Northeast 1927
Pershing Square looking west, 1930
Looking west across the square in 1930:
The Underground parking being built in 1951. Looking Northeast at the beautiful old Philharmonic building, now a parking lot.:
All these large trees you see looking west across the park in the 30's?
They were dug up and moved to Disneyland when the park was redone in the 50's:
More to come later.