This might interest some of you. It has some a bunch of historic pics of downtown LA in different decades and showcases some of it's noir.
http://westcoastarch.blogspot.com/20...l?view=classic
Also, i dont know if this has been posted before, but i found it interesting that this went for $20 a month, and in 1946 was $70 per the LA Times, 5-7-46. This house stood roughly where the Walt Disney Concert Hall stands now. I apologize if it is a repeat.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...owerSt1946.jpg