Los Angeles at the dawn of the automobile age - motorists tour a still-rural L.A. at Glendale and Sunset boulevards in 1904.
Part of the Automobile Club of Southern California Collection in the USC Digital Library.
The Rambler bicycle and automobile shop in downtown L.A. at Fifth and Spring streets, circa 1902. Part of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Circa 1903 view of Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles, looking south from Third.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Looking east down Third Street at Normandie Avenue in 1900. Part of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
A team of ostriches pulls a man on a cart at the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm near Lincoln Park, ca. 1900.
Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Hollywood in 1907. The view looks northeast from Hollywood High School and shows Highland Ave. in the foreground with the City of Hollywood — then an independent municipality — in the distance.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Circa 1900 view of Bunker Hill, downtown L.A.’s lost neighborhood. The view looks west from the county courthouse atop Poundcake Hill. Broadway is visible in the bottom-left, and at the far right stands the Crocker mansion at the corner of Hill and Court streets.
In the 1950s and ’60s, a redevelopment project cleared Bunker Hill of its streets and buildings and altered the physical topography of the neighborhood. Learn more about Bunker Hill’s development and eventual demise with L.A. as Subject’s latest KCET contribution.
