Los Angeles Relics

A cowboy on horseback (center, left of statue) rides through the car-lined streets of Azusa inviting residents to a rodeo. Photo dated: April 7, 1929. Source: LAPL

The washed out Santa Fe Railroad bridge sags perilously over the Arroyo Seco paralleling the Pasadena Avenue bridge, March 3, 1938. This damage was due to the Great Flood of 1938. Source: Los Angeles Times

Aerial view of the Japanese estate and gardens, once owned by the brothers Charles and Adolph Bernheimer, located at 1999 N. Sycamore Avenue in Hollywood, ca. 1925. This 1914 hilltop estate was built to house the Bernheimers' priceless collection of Asian treasures. In order to have an authentic Japanese design, hundreds of skilled craftsmen were brought from Asia to recreate an exact replica of a palace located in the Yamashiro mountains near Kyoto, Japan. The original Bernheimer structure included a 10-room teak and cedar mansion, where carved rafters were lacquered in gold and tipped with bronze dragons. The hillside terraces included 30,000 varieties of trees, shrubs, waterfalls, hundreds of goldfish, and even exotic birds and monkeys. After the death of one of the brothers in 1922, the art collections were auctioned off. A few years later, the estate served as headquarters for the exclusive Hollywood "400 Club," an organization for the elite of the motion picture industry. After WWII, the home was remodeled and converted into apartments. Soon thereafter, Thomas O. Glover purchased the property and began the restoration of what was to become the Yamashiro restaurant. Some neighboring residences are captured in the image. Source: LAPL

Robert Redford, Katharine Ross and Paul Newman on the set of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” 1969. Source: Getty Images

Venice West Cafe located at s 7 Dudley Avenue, ca. 1960. Photo by: Charles Brittin.

One of the cottages on the 90 acre La Lomita Ranch, a dairy farm, bounded by Pico Boulevard and Overland. The two-story frame house sits in a rural enclave in the Palms area of Los Angeles. Photograph dated March 10, 1939. Source: LAPL

Long Wharf, Santa Monica, ca. 1910. Source: LAPL

Photograph dated June 22, 1949 shows smoky haze surrounding Griffith Park as fire raged through the area. Source: LAPL

Pomona College, Claremont, which celebrates is Founders' Day on October 14, 1940, recalls the humble beginning of the institution when it was founded 53 years ago. The photo shows the original Sumner Hall, the first building of the college. The college at that time was situated in the midst of a real estate subdivision. Source: LAPL

Aerial view of Hollywood with the Capitol Records Building in the center surrounded by other buildings near Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, 1959. The view is to the west. Source: LAPL

Norma Jeane playing with neighborhood dogs, 1933.

Pier at Hermosa Beach at sunset, ca. 1937. Photo by Herman Schultheis. Source: LAPL

Home at 535 Cumberland Road, Glendale, 1928. Source: USC Digital Library

The tracks of the Pasadena and Pacific and future route of Santa Monica Boulevard east of Sherman, ca. 1905. Source: USC Digital Library

People walk the midway beside the Cyclone Racer roller coaster at The Pike amusement park south of Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach, 1963. Started in 1902, The Pike amusement park ran until 1979. The Cyclone Racer was created by Fred Church, built in 1930 by Harry Traver and was a dual-track (two trains could run at the same time), racing wooden roller coaster. It stopped operating in September 1968. Source: LAPL

Aerial view of the Hotel Raymond in Pasadena, ca. 1918. Source: USC Digital Library

This nighttime picture shows MacArthur Park's artificial lake and boathouse, as well as several high-rise buildings in the background. Included is a building heralding the location of the Westlake Theatre. In the middle of the photo, a couple can be seen relaxing as their canoe floats across the lake, its surface giving a lovely reflection of the boathouse lights and surrounding area. Photo is undated. Source: LAPL

MacArthur Park was created in the 1880's under the name Westlake Park, and later renamed in honor of General Douglas MacArthur; by the 1890's, it was a vacation destination surrounded by luxury hotels; in the early part of the 20th century, the area became known as the Champs Elysees of Los Angeles. MacArthur Park has been designated city of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.

Boxers fighting in a ring in front of the Santa Monica Athletic Club, ca. 1934. The La Monica Ballroom is prominent on the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier in the distance. Photograph by Powell Press Service. Source: Huntington Library

Glass plate negative, made ca. 1905–10, showing what is now the California Incline road leading down to the beach and railroad tracks in Santa Monica. The Southern Pacific Railroad ran steam engines along these tracks between Los Angeles and the Long Wharf, seen in the distance at left. Source: Huntington Library

An aerial view of the new U.C.L.A. Westwood campus, looking west, as construction was completed in 1929. Buildings from left to right: Moore Hall, then called the Education Building, left; Physics Building, foreground center; Powell Library, back center; Royce Hall, back right; and Haines Hall, far right. The main campus quadrangle appears at the center. In the foreground is the bridge which connected the campus to Hilgard Avenue. The gully which the bridge crossed was filled-in after World War II. Source: LAPL

Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra 1934.

Night shot of a Prohibition era political billboard "Vote Dry" - South Central Los Angeles, November 3, 1916. Source: Huntington Library

View of "Carmelita", the home of Dr. Ezra S. and Mrs. Jeanna Carr, located on a 42-acre site at the northeast corner of Colorado Street and Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, 1890. Photo shows a group of people sitting outside the home. A women is sitting on a horse on the right and a horse-drawn carriage is in the background. Source: LAPL

A winter storm caused mudslides and flooding on 101A (Alternate) at the Bel Air Beach Club. Cars drive slowly past the machinery and workers cleaning the highway. The top of the cliffs are dotted with houses that have spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean and very unstable foundations. Photo dated: January 18, 1952. Source: LAPL

This section of Pacific Coast Highway was formally dedicated as the 'Theodore Roosevelt Highway' when it was completed in 1929 and was generally known as the 'Roosevelt Highway' or 'Coast Highway' in the 1930s. It was designated as US 101A (Alternate) in 1936. State legislative action in 1964 changed many highway numbers in California, and US 101A became CA 1. In the same year, the state legislature offically named CA 1 'Pacific Coast Highway' in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

Shy-Der's Health Juices located on the southwest corner of York Blvd and N Ave 49 in Eagle Rock has giant carrots on all four corners, incorporated into the architecture, ca. 1938. Source: LAPL

Venice Canals, construction work under way by Henry X. Goetz, contractor. Source: Wikipedia.

View of the 1904 Playa del Rey Pavilion (center) and Del Rey Hotel (right) both designed by architect A. W. Eager from the south end of Del Rey Lagoon, ca. 1906. Note Garbutt's 1903 beach residence directly above the hotel. The house on the left was also designed by Eager and possibly the two buildings at the lower right as well. Source: USC Digital Library

A birdseye view of the "Fun Zone" of the Los Angeles County Fair at night, ca. 1953-1958. The "Fun Zone", a group of carnival rides including a Ferris wheel and a merry-go-round, runs diagonally through the image from the lower left to the upper right. The rides are illuminated for the night, as is the building behind them. Parked automobiles sit in the foreground of the image, while the lights of a city are visible in the background. Source: USC Digital Library

Human card game at Gables Beach Club, Santa Monica, late 1920s; photograph by Powell Press Service. Source: Huntington Library

A food stand made to resemble a battleship sits at the edge of Venice Pier, 1910s. Caption reads: ‘Some people are strolling, some are sitting and watching the ocean, some are getting food to eat from the restaurant right next to the pier. Source: LAPL