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Archiving Angeles (AA): New York Saloon

Jason Burns — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:27:15 +0000

It was where men celebrated the end of a hard day’s work. Or, the beginning.

It was the New York Saloon at Third and Spring. The year was 1881.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): The Town Square

Jason Burns — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:41:17 +0000

Crowds of patriotic Angelenos gather to buy war bonds, watch the beauty pageant, and see a B-25 bomber up close.

It was Pershing Square in Los Angeles. The year was 1942.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): Helms Bakery

Jason Burns — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:49:50 +0000

Their motto was “Daily at Your Door,” and daily they came. Covering hundreds of miles every week, the Helms Bakery coach was always stocked with donuts, cookies, pastries and candies, and freshly-baked bread. And you thought food trucks were new.

The year was 1936.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): Track Removal

Jason Burns — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:16:54 +0000

The future of transportation is the automobile. Streets that no longer need streetcars, no longer need streetcar tracks. Such was the case at Piedmont and North Figueroa.

The year was 1958.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): Hollywood Goes Hollywood

Jason Burns — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:19:45 +0000

David Horsley arrives in Los Angeles with his motion picture company, Nestor Films. They would become the first studio in Hollywood, at Sunset & Gower.

The year was 1911.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): Nazis March On Spring

Jason Burns — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:16:09 +0000

Tom Bradley was being sworn in as the first African American mayor of Los Angeles. His inauguration was not without controversy.

The year was 1973.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): Los Angeles Soap Company

Jason Burns — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:09:04 +0000

Men of stature. Men of soap. John A. Forthmann Sr., Horace Forthmann, and J.J. Bergin, with the Los Angeles Soap Company.

The year was 1874.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): High Times in the Nuys

Jason Burns — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:04:01 +0000

Officers in the Van Nuys Division of the LAPD are caught off-guard. Is that what we think it is?

The year was 1951.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): Paving the Way

Jason Burns — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:51:37 +0000

Goods were transported by horse and carriage. Streets had yet to be paved. But, the streetcars were rolling down Broadway.

The year was 1909.

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Archiving Angeles (AA): The Old Fire House

Jason Burns — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:05:34 +0000

The Thirty-Eights used to call it the Old Fire House. Others also called the Los Angeles Plaza building home, as a hotel and saloon.

The year was 1920.

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