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Looking Southwest Across Pershing Square and South on Hill St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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Looking Southwest Across Pershing Square and South on Hill St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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Identifier
post_00013
Title
Looking
Southwest
Across
Pershing
Square
and
South
on
Hill
St.
,
Los
Angeles
,
Calif
.
Creator
unknown
Date Published
circa
1925
Subject (Topic)
Parks--California--Los
Angeles
;
Hotels--California--Los
Angeles
;
Fountains--California--Los
Angeles
;
Public
art--California--Los
Angeles
;
Electric
railroads--California--Los
Angeles
Subject (Name)
Biltmore
Hotel
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Pacific
Mutual
Life
Insurance
Building
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Pacific
Mutual
Life
Insurance
Company
Subject (Place)
Pershing
Square
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Hill
Street
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Los
Angeles
(Calif.)
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
Western
Publishing
&
Novelty
Co
.
Place of Publication
Los
Angeles
,
Cal
.
Language
eng
Description
Bird's-eye
view
of
Hill
Street
,
Pershing
Square
, and
buildings
bordering
the
park
on
Olive
Street
,
including
the
Biltmore
Hotel
and the
Pacific
Mutual
Building
;
fountain
in
center
of
park
;
American
flag
on
flagpole
rising
above
trees
;
automobiles
,
red
streetcars
, and
yellow
streetcars
on
Hill
Street
.
Historical Background
Pershing
Square
is
bounded
by
5th
and
6th
,
Hill
and
Olive
. The
oldest
park
in
Los
Angeles
,
it
was
originally
known
as
La
Plaza
Abaja
, the
lower
plaza
, and was
renamed
Central
Park
in the
early
1890s
. In
1900
, the
7th
Regiment
Monument
was
erected
at the
corner
of
6th
and
Hill
as a
memorial
to
soldiers
of the
Spanish-American
War
. The
park
was
redesigned
by
John
Parkinson
in
1911
in a
classical
style
with a
central
fountain
. In
1918
, at the
end
of
WWI
,
it
was
renamed
Pershing
Square
in
honor
of
General
John
J
.
Pershing
. A
statue
of a
WWI
Doughboy
was
erected
in
1924
.
Pershing
Square
became
known
as a
popular
site
for
orators
and
rallies
. A
parking
garage
was
installed
under
the
park
in
1954
.
Publisher's Identifier
Publisher's serial number: 101703; Series number: LA-127
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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