A nice round number, 1935
October 1935. "Agricultural worker in migrant camp figuring his year's earnings," Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration.
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Sodium Vapor streetlighting, Saugus
Inbound on the Ridge Route, 1937.
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Hardscrabble hotel on an unnamed street, undated
You're going to need a place to hole up.
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Looking southwest across Hope Street between 1st and 2nd, ca.1950
It won't look much better in the morning. We're looking southwest across Hope Street with the Stanley Hotel/Apartments over there, beyond the palm tree, at 2nd and Flower Streets. On the right we see the back of the red brick, three-story Westmont Apartments (originally the Mack) at 124 S. Flower and next door, to the left, the white New Brunswick Apartments (formerly the Isabella) at 130 S. Flower, where there will be a kidnapping (and presumed murder) of a state witness in the Mabel Monahan case in 1953.
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Looking northwest across Hope Street between 1st and 2nd Streets, ca.1950
Bright, white five-story building over here on the right is the Majestic Apartments at 702 W. 1st Street. “Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cookies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them. (from) "The High Window”
― Raymond Chandler
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Looking north across the intersection of 9th, Main and Spring Streets, 1948
Hotel Hampshire on the right, the Roseland Roof over here on the left and everything else a man needs in-between.
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Gatti & Conterno Billiards, 20th and Olympic Boulevard, Sawtelle, 1936
Stop in at Gatti's, play a little stick, maybe pick up a job. Maybe not. Welcome to hard times.
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Green Cat Cafe, Santa Ana, 1939
Stop in at the Green Cat, fry cook's a good guy, sometimes, if the boss ain't around, he'll help a fella out with a cuppa joe and a wedge of yesterday's custard pie.
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Jehnkes Service Station, Whittier, 1937
Maybe grab a coke on the way back to the flop. Maybe talk this guy out of a quart of oil. Maybe flip him for it. Maybe.
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Mr. Fletcher Johns, 1925
Maybe something'll turn up tomorrow. Yeah. Maybe.
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One thousand is a big number. Thanks to all who have kept it going. The respect and affection for L.A. is apparent.