Cate’s Musings

A few days ago UCLA put over 5,000 amazing photos of Los Angeles online, and you gotta see it to believe it. The website describes the project further:

“The UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections has selected and digitized 5,124 of the more than three million images contained in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives. The photographs chronicle the history and growth of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1990.”

It’s rather easy to spend hours browsing the collection. I’ve spent far too much time perusing it myself. The best part is that there are fairly hi-res versions of each shot there for the taking. Here are a few of my favorites:

This is the Angelus Temple in Echo Park, not far from my house. It’s still there, but the street cars aren’t. 1923.

Demonstrators downtown during an unemployment demonstration led by communists, dubbed “The Red Riot,” 1930

The fantasticness of this shot is multi-layered…This is the Reverend James Cleavland at the Cornerstone Baptist Church, 1977