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I know that many of you here on the forum trace your roots back to the Southern California area and I hope that all of you can appreciate this walk back in time of Los Angeles in black and white...

Outside Los Angeles 1850


Los Angeles 1890


Bellevue Terrace Hotel 6th and Figueroa 1900


San Fernando Valley 1900


Santa Monica Beach 1900


The Port of Los Angeles 1900


Glendale 1900


Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks 1915


Venice Beach 1917

Here are some more...

Courthouse and Hall of Records 1920


Broadway and 6th 1920


13 Venice Beach 1920


Wilshire Blvd 1920


Pacific Electric Subway 1925


Chavez Ravine 1950


Evictions at Chavez Ravine 1959


Dodger Stadium Construction 1961


Bunker Hill Victorian Home 1969

What fun! Thanks for posting these.

Growing up in So Cal those were fun to see. Most at bit before my time of course!

I do remember going to Disneyland when it was just completed and I remember driving for miles through orange groves to get there.

We now take a hike each weekend at Torrey Pines State Park and walk along a two lane concrete road which is narrower than Mex 1. It was the road my parents drove us down to San Diego from Long Beach on (Pacific Coast Highway).

Any of you boomers remember the Automobile Race Course at Torrey Pines?

Ken

Those are some really interesting photos. I'm not a native. I grew up in New York and came West a few years after the Dodgers did. But thanks to TV, even poor folks like me could get acquainted with LA. Think Dragnet. Or maybe even a bit farther out of town, the old Broderick Crawford series Highway Patrol. They used to shoot that along Rte 66 in the high desert. I did get to ride Angel's Flight before they "temporarily" shut it down. As a kid from New York, I was beguiled by the differences between there and LA. In my opinion, LA started to lose its unique identity and much of its charm in the mid-seventies.

Originally Posted by Bajahowodd

In my opinion, LA started to lose its unique identity and much of its charm in the mid-seventies.

I think it started a few years prior. The downtown LA I remember as a kids and today bare little resemblance...