#vintage los angeles

memoriastoica:

Beauty pageant at Ocean Park Pier, Santa Monica, California.

Circa 1956.

memoriastoica:

phantomblogger:

Plan 9 from Outer Space

CBS Columbia Square building, 6121 Sunset Boulevard.

http://memoriastoica.tumblr.com/post/50888779587

Sunset Strip, 1960s

Wilshire Blvd., 1950s

Downtown Los Angeles, 1979

Gas House club, Venice Beach, 1960

Santa Monica Blvd. and 4th St., Santa Monica, 1953

Santa Monica Blvd., 1953

katbeee:

How Echo Park celebrated Valentine’s Day in 1927:

Helen Jean Leonard and Geraldine Leisure, sit on a table surrounded by crafts made by the children of Echo Park playground. The crafts were made at a Valentine party and were on exhibit at the park.

usclibraries:

Today it’s home to the futuristic Westin Bonaventure Hotel, but here’s how the northwest corner of Flower and Fifth streets looked in 1927.

Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.

losangelespast:

She-Devil in a Bathing Suit: Halloween fun on Venice Beach, 1936.

postcardshow:

621 Figueroa Street Tunnels, Los Angeles, California.

memoriastoica:

Specification Motor Oil station, Washington and 8th Avenue, Los Angeles.

Circa 1920s.

Depending on which side of the street this building was on, this is now a parking lot, a mini mall, a kitchen supply warehouse or a school.

Main Street, Downtown Los Angeles, 1920s

Hollywood freeway (101), 1950s

Capitol Records building under construction, Hollywood, 1955

Hollywood Palladium, 1940s

Red Car passing by Echo Park Lake, 1954

Vintage Los Angeles 1975

John Ritter starring in the final episode of Mannix filmed on the Brady Bunch set