Ebook: Early Downtown Los Angeles
Author: Stargel Sarah, Stargel Cory
- Tags: Historic buildings--California--Los Angeles, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General, Postcards--California--Los Angeles, Manners and customs, Postcards, Buildings, Historic buildings, History, Pictorial works, Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works, Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings structures etc. -- Pictorial works, Postcards -- California -- Los Angeles, Historic buildings -- California -- Los Angeles -- Pictoria
- Series: Postcard history series
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
- City: Los Angeles (Calif.);California;Los Angeles
- Language: English
- epub
Growing south from the plaza where the city of Los Angeles was founded as a tiny pueblo in 1781, the area now known as downtown L.A. was first developed in the late 1800s as a residential neighborhood, complete with churches and schools. As the population surged at the turn of the 20th century, the downtown area was transformed into a busy business and entertainment center of shops, banks, hotels, and theaters. The explosion of the postcard craze in the early 1900s coincided with this period of downtown's tremendous growth toward a formidable metropolis. This collection of vintage postcards offers a glimpse into the changing city through the 1940s.
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