A deep dive into the rich history of LA. Join me and let’s travel through time. Started on Instagram as ForgottenMadness_LA. See link below.
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Taken in downtown LA in 1937, at 3rd & Spring, where a woman protests immigration raids being performed in violation of the law.
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Los Angeles, as seen through the lens of 1920s VFX
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Vine at night, looking north toward Hollywood in 1936.
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE Magazine.
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The Hill Street Tunnels on a foggy night, taken October 11, 1954.
We’re at Temple here, looking down Hill Street toward 1st.
📷: Howard Maxwell / LA Times
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Opening Night at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, July 11, 1960
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When you take a drive through the Hollywood Hills before they’ve finished rendering…
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE Magazine, 1936
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Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda walk on the Sunset Strip in 1970, standing about where Carney’s is located today.
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That clip comes from four minutes of footage from the Hollywood premiere of Roger Corman’s “The Tomb of Ligeia” (1964) at the Pix Theatre at Hollywood & Gower (now the Fonda).
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LA’s New Chinatown, as filmed in color by Hong You Chow in 1942.
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Grand Central Market in 1963.
This is a brief clip from an incredible 10-minute short film on LA’s oldest public market, directed by William Hale and shot by Haskell Wexler.
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Griffith Observatory staff debuts a new solar eclipse exhibit, year unknown.
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Spencer Tracy on the set of “The Old Man and the Sea” at Warner Bros in August 1957.
The film took two years to make and was considered a “jinxed production.”
📷: Ralph Crane / LIFE
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