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Spring Street, Los Angeles, California
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Description
Identifier
post_00323
Title
Spring
Street
,
Los
Angeles
,
California
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
circa
1930
Subject (Topic)
Business
districts--California--Los
Angeles
;
Bank
buildings--California--Los
Angeles
;
Streets--California--Los
Angeles
;
Sidewalks
;
Automobiles
;
Pedestrians
;
Flags
Subject (Place)
Spring
Street
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Downtown
Los
Angeles
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
14
x
9
cm
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Language
eng
Description
View
of
Spring
Street
between
6th
and
7th
streets
.
California
Bank
and
Los
Angeles
Stock
Exchange
are
seen
on the
right
.
Historical Background
Around
1910
,
many
of
Los
Angeles
'
financial
institutions
,
which
had
previously
been
scattered
throughout
the
downtown
area
,
began
relocating
to
Spring
Street
so
that
it
came
to be
known
as the "
Wall
Street
of the
West.
"
It
was
Los
Angeles
'
original
financial
district
,
housing
many
of the
city's
banks
,
title
and
trust
companies
, and the
Los
Angeles
Stock
Exchange
,
which
opened
in
October
,
1929
.
Spring
Street
was also
home
to
one
of the
first
street
railways
in
Los
Angeles
established
in
1874
.
Between
1900
and
1910
,
it
gave
way
to the
electric
trolley
system
developed
by
Henry
E
.
Huntington
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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