Santa Ana’s downtown streets decorated for the holidays in 1945.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
December 7, 1941 in L.A.’s Little Tokyo district. ”In Los Angeles’ ‘Little Tokyo,’ news of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor left shocked silence yesterday,” read the Los Angeles Examiner’s caption for this photograph.
Part of the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive in the USC Digital Library.
Intersection of Cahuenga and Hollywood boulevards, ca. 1945.
Part of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Pasadena’s city hall, circa 1940.
Part of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Trousdale Parkway on the USC campus in 1940, when it was still a public street. The view looks northeast up Trousdale (then named University Avenue) from Exposition Boulevard.
Part of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Circa 1940 view of the Beverly Vons Market at Beverly Blvd. and Crescent Heights Blvd. Part of the USC Digital Library’s California Historical Society Collection.
Orange groves near Covina, circa 1941.
Part of the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Earlier today, the L.A. Conservancy announced its its 2012 Last Remaning Seats season schedule. Two film screenings will be held in the historic Los Angeles Theatre, shown here in a 1948 photograph from the USC Libraries’ Dick Whittington Photography Collection.
