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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
The following photographs were taken by a Russian living in the United States between 1936 t0 1940.
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MORE TO COME TOMORROW.
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Looking forward to the next batch,
E_R!
I wanted to type some of those captions into a translator, but finding Russian/cyrillic companions to those letters was somewhat difficult.
But because I was trying to for a bit I came across an online post (in Russian) where someone posted around 75 Los Angeles photos, in color. When I come across so many photos like that it becomes a bit overwhelming and you first think none of them have been posted on NLA before and then you think they all have. So, I randomly selected 10 or 11 of the photos and put them in Google photo search one at a time to see if they came up on other sites. Most of them only appeared as showing up on the blog post. Under "Pages that include matching images" three of them showed up on one or two other sites that used the photo, but the date they used them was after this blog post first appeared around two years ago in 2017.
So, I don't know where these photos came from. There is an introductory paragraph and then the photos, but none of the photos are captioned, though some locations are well-known and some others have street signs in them.
I copied the Russian written introductory title and paragraph into a translator, and this is what I came up with as the translation:
Los Angeles Photos - 1950-60
Los Angeles - sounds like music/music to my ears, like angels singing... But with this name I have a lot of associations. "Chinatown", "L.A. Confidentiual", "Mulholland Drive", "Sunset Blvd."... and it is these things I think of when I look at these pictures.
There are no captions or sources where the photos came from. That I could understand anyway. I invite you all to check out the link and see what you think about any, most or all of them being seen on NLA before. (I am only absolutely sure that I saw two of these before.) Here's a scant few of the around 75 images that I liked and don't recall seeing before, but after ten years of photos posted on NLA, who can remember everything?
https://nickmix01.livejournal.com/514119.html
CLICK on the photo below for another photo taken from the same location:
The following photo was posted on a twitter account just a couple weeks ago and identified it as Chavez Ravine!
For search purposes:
Angel's Flight / Angel's Flight Pharmacy
Chavez Ravine
La Azteca / gasometer
W. 3rd St. / S. Bunker Hill Ave.
Selma Ave. / Vine Street / NBC Radio City / Hollywood / blade traffic signals
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