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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
Perhaps street lights around Union Square were deemed sufficient, and the sign was never installed:
March 6, 1905, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL |
FW, you're probably correct.
The electrical star/sign article was dated January 29th 1905.
You can find it here:
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=...are%22-------1
Like you, I was unaware the area was called 'Union Square'.
That said, it's difficult to locate anything pertaining to Los Angeles' Union Square. You have to sift through hundreds, if not thousands, of articles
pertaining to San Francisco's Union Square, and to some extent New York's Union Square (even in Californian newspapers)
Although I
did find a mention of Union Square in this article from the
Los Angeles Herald dated Nov. 15, 1918.
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=...are%22-------1
So we know the area was called 'Union Square' as late as 1918.
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