Everyone has been linking to UCLA’s new on-line library of historic L.A. photos and I just had to point out some of my favorites:
Automobile crash into billboard on Wilshire Blvd. and Mansfield Street in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1942.
Los Angeles-based comedian, Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) posing with stuff monkey on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984
3,500 pound industrial robot, Unimate, pouring coffee for a woman at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., 1967
Artist Salvador Dali seated in a bathtub at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., 1944
Two female musicians entertaining passerbys in front of Los Angeles office of Air France on Bastille Day, 1965
Airplane being transported down Wilshire Blvd. to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., 1937
also pretty neat if you haven’t seen it:
http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch/collectionlist.jsp
i like this one:
http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch/objectdetails.jsp?objectname=examiner-m11104
The map collection there is really neat.
This post delights me beyond reason! About 10 years ago I went to the Powell archives (up on the 2nd floor of the library @ UCLA) and dug around forever for a microfilm print aerial shot of Westwood in the 20s. Now, such things are a button click away. God bless digital archives.