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Originally Posted by rcarlton
Another Ansel Adams showing a typical street:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085742.jpg
"A car travels south on an unidentified palm-lined street in Los Angeles. Apartment buildings, of various architectural styles, are located on both sides of the street."
Circa 1940.
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Originally Posted by Illithid Dude
What street is this? It's actually very pretty. I wonder how well it has held up over the years.
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Well, by pure luck the identity of this street has turned up. A while back I guessed a block over, on Alexandria, and I was pretty close. Prompted by
e_r's post of the intriguing Evanston on Kenmore prompted me to look for more pictures of it. Among the shots that
didn't turn up at first when searching the name "Kenmore" at the LAPL was this:
So I clicked on the little "void" icon, and there was the picture...and it seems that the library has updated its description since
rcarlton posted the pic:
"A car travels south on palm-lined South Kenmore Avenue, approaching Sixth Street, in Hancock Park. On the left are apartment buildings at 537 S. Kenmore and 531 S. Kenmore, and on the right is a building at 530 S. Kenmore."
(OK, I hate to be a total nerd, but who's going to tell the LAPL that Kenmore is many blocks east of Hancock Park...?)
Anyway, there's your street,
rcarlton &
Illithit Dude... and it turns out that all three of the nearest buildings in the vntage shot are still there:
Google