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Water and Power Associates Educate citizens on important water and energy issues facing Los Angeles and California.

Here is the origin of Los Angeles. Nesestra Senora Leina de Los Angeles was established on September 4, 1781 by the Spanish Pobladelos group. They initially led by Fernando Javier Libera Libera Lee Montkada (1725-1781) and departed from nearby San Gabriel Alkangel to establish a Publo on the riverbro shore of Indian Village in Yanna. It was accompanied by the soldier*^.

In 1841, Los Angeles' first census, the population was 141. One year later (1842), California's first gold mine was discovered in Placerita Canyon near San Fernando Mission, which spurred the Los Angeles's first population boom. By 1850, the Los Angeles population reached 1, 610.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to display an interactive map of the early Los Angeles at the time of 1850.

(Around 1858)*-This is the oldest close-up photo of Los Angeles Square. In the center of the square is a square brick reservoir, which was the end of Los Angeles's historic life. This tank was built in 1858 by the LA Waterworks Company.

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The current plaza is not the original place. It may be the second, third, or fourth. One of the previous lands is thought to be around the current percing square. He also believes that at least one of the first three was flooded. The current square is from 1815 ^^#.

When the early settlers arrived on the Ros Angeles River through the mission road, they chose a huge Shika More (center of the upper right photo) as a nearby meeting place. The Spanish, which means Shika More, was later used in the names engraved near the river (Aliso Street in 1854)^*^. Educate citizens on important water and energy issues facing Los Angeles and California.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to display an interactive map of the early Los Angeles at the time of 1850.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to display an interactive map of the early Los Angeles at the time of 1850.

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El Aliso (upper right of the photo) was born in the late 15th century from the ground near the west coast of the Los Angeles river around the same time as Columbus arrived in the United States. Los Angeles Kaigan Plains, Sangabriel Valley, and the Sangabriel valley, Shika More, as it matures, has become a gathering of indigenous Tonba tribes in the Los Angeles. The local leaders gathered in the shade of the tree from a village in Southern California. In the mi d-18th century, the powerful Shikamoa was at the center of Yanna Village, one of the largest villages of the Tongba. In the 1830s, the erosion of Pueblo loses Ell Aliso as a symbolic center of Tonba's daily life, and Yanna changed his place and disappeared into historical oblivion.

(Around 1860)*-One of the first water tanks in Los Angeles was a brick building in the center of the square. Immediately behind the Adbe was owned by Augustine Olbera. The thre e-story building was Sisters of Charity Hospital.

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In 1858, a LA water company led by William G. Dryden built a large brick and wood storage tank in downtown. It stayed there for about 10 years, and then replaced the fountain. Water can be stored in other tanks around the square and other tanks in the neighborhood.

In 1876, the Buena Vista reservoir in Elysian Park was built by a privately owned Los Angeles Water. Los Angeles Water, led by John S. Griphen, Solomon Lazard, and Conten Boardy, signed a 3 0-year franchise agreement and outsourced the city of water systems (1868-1898).

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(1863) ^ -A watermill in the Los Angeles River at the beginning of Zanha Madre, the starting point of the Los Angeles Suidobashi. The river has been the source of Los Angeles since Los Angeles was pioneering in 1781.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Historical Memoel Aliso (upper right of the photo) was born in the late 15th century from the ground near the west coast of the Los Angeles River, around the same time as Columbus arrived in the United States. Los Angeles Kaigan Plains, Sangabriel Valley, and the Sangabriel valley, Shika More, as it matures, has become a gathering of indigenous Tonba tribes in the Los Angeles. The local leaders gathered in the shade of the tree from a village in Southern California. In the mi d-18th century, the powerful Shikamoa was at the center of Yanna Village, one of the largest villages of the Tongba. In the 1830s, the erosion of Pueblo loses Ell Aliso as a symbolic center of Tonba's daily life, and Yanna changed his place and disappeared into historical oblivion.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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The 40-foot waterwheel seen above was used to raise part of the Los Angeles River's water supply to a level where it could be gravity-fed to homes, fields, and reservoirs. In 1857, William Dryden received city council authorization to build a water supply system. A brick reservoir was built in the center of the square to hold water brought from the Zanja Madre. A waterwheel was also built to raise water from the river to the Zanja Madre, which was then distributed through a system of wooden pipes to the various homes along the boulevard. Read more about William Dryden here.

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Click here for the Zanja Madre of Los Angeles (prototype aqueduct).

(c. 1868)^ - Square facing east, with the first LA tank at ground level to the right of the photo. The two-story building directly behind the tank is the Vincent Lugo Adobe. The building with the gazebo-like tower in front of the tank is the "Old Progressive Church."

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The Lugo Adobe, said to have been built in the 1840s by Don Vicente Lugo, was one of the few two-story houses in Los Angeles Pueblo. In 1867, Lugo donated the house on the plaza to St. Vincent School (the precursor to Loyola University).

(n. d.)^#*^ - 1860 map of the La Plaza neighborhood. Adobe buildings cover all four sides.

Click here for an early view of Los Angeles Plaza.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Fort Hill (also known as Fort Moore Hill) was a prominent hill overlooking Los Angeles Pueblo. Its strategic location offered panoramic views of the city.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

This fort is now commemorated by the Fort Moore Pioneer monument at 451 North Hill Street*^.

(Around 1860)^-The view of Aliso Street east of Los Angeles Street, looking west from Arameda Street (around 1860). At that time it was Pueblo's main street. Low buildings, trees and carriages are drawn.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Aliso Street was first named in 1854. When the first c o-plant reached the Los Angeles (El Rio de Nuestra de Los Angeles de Porcinucula) via the Mission Street, they used a huge Suzukakenoki as a nearby relay point, "El Aliso". It was a landmark. The Spanish, which means Shika More, was also used in the name of the road engraved near the river.

In 1860, Los Angeles's population was 4. 385, nearly three times as much as 10 years ago.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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The main street opened in 1849. The first main street in the community was connected to San Gabriel Mission, Sun Fernando Valley, and many Lanchos. One stroke near the plaza was known as a berth street after the shop where the "Scarlet Women" appeared.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1868) ^ - 1868, the view from the top floor of the U. S. Hotel of the main street and the top floor of the main street. The willow trees in the background are along the Los Angeles River.

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Manuel Lekuena is the first Mayor of Mexican American mayor Los Angeles (only 11 days). He contributed to building the first public school on the second street and Spring Street. The Lekena Street was named after him, but was later renamed Market Street. It is also known for the establishment of the Lincoln Johnson Club.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1869)^ - Early view of Commercial Street looking east from Main Street. On the right is Polasky and Goodwin's dry goods store, which I. W. Hellman sold to them in 1868. In the building on the left foreground, Charles Ducommun operated a jewelry and hardware store. Herman Heinsch's saddle and harness store is in a newly built brick building. A gas street light is in the right foreground.

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This was Los Angeles' main business district. It was located between Main and Los Angeles Streets, bounded by Commercial Street, which was only one block long. Los Angeles Street ran one block north from Commercial Street to Arcadia and Aliso Streets, and Calle de los Negros ran north from Aliso Street to the Plaza.

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(1869)* - Early view of Commercial Street, looking east from Main Street. On the right is Polasky and Goodwin's dry goods store, which I. W. Hellman sold to them in 1868. In the building on the left foreground, Charles Ducommun operated a jewelry and hardware store. Herman Heinsch's saddle and harness shop is in the newly built brick building in the background. LA's* first gas lamp can be seen in the lower right.

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Charles Louis Ducommun, a watchmaker, emigrated to America from Switzerland in the early 1840s. He started a general store, providing supplies (and credit) to gold prospectors and other pioneers who settled in the burgeoning Pueblo of Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1870) ^^ - The view of the commercial street (later Arameda Street) looking east from the main street. The stunning White House Hotel looks at the southeast corner of commercials and Los Angeles. On the left is one of the first tw o-story buildings in Los Angeles, built by I. W. Hermann in 1870. The first left corner is Ducommun Hardware. At that time, it was the center of Los Angeles business. The carriage is running on the street without slowing down.

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Isyasu Wolf Hermann is a Germa n-born American banker, a charity, and the father of the University of South California*^.

(1870)^ -The main street, the northern view of the commercial street. On the left is a Wine and liquor of W. M. Buffam, Republic Printing Shop, S. Lazard & Company's foreig n-made, hom e-dry goods wholesale and retail store. The main and commercial horns on the left are stores purchased by I. W. Hermann (22) of Portugal Adolf in 1865. A carriage is waiting on the street. There is a gas light behind it.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Downey block construction began in 1869. It was named after John Gathered Downey, a pharmacist who served as the Governor of California, two years before becoming a real estate developer (1860-1862). Downy was also one of the founders of the National Farmers and Maccanz Bank and the first president. The town of Downey was named in respect for him because he divided his farm into a farm.

(1868)^ - Look south from "Pound Cake Hill". The main street in the center of the photo is Broadway.

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On the right is a completely barren bunker hill before the board lare development. The third street is a distant main street running from right to left. Broadway is as shown in the center of the photo. Hill Street at the foot of the bunkerhill is only an unpaved path at best. Later, the scenery will see the hills on the north of the Hall of Records. Today's view is to see the north side of the LA Times Complex.

(1868)^ - The same photo as above, the building and the main sector are indicated by the number (see the figure below).

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(Around 1870)^ - The view of Broadway looking south from the temple street. The large building on the right is St. Vincent College, facing the sixth street between Broadway and Hill Street.

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In 1870, Los Angeles had a population of 5. 730*^.#*#(1869)^ - All scenery of the plaza and the Old Place Church (Mission Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles). The central square main brick tank (partial view) is a water storage tank by William Dryden and LA Waterworks Company. Click here for more information about William Dryden.

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The building on the upper right is the Sisters of Charity Hospital. The three adovi visible on the north side of the square were owned by M. Norton (built in 1854), John Downey (1844 architecture surrounded by trees), and Augustine Olberella (architecture 1854). Ta. At present, everything has disappeared. The former was lost by the widening of the main ST, the latter was demolished in 1894 to build the Simpson Jones Bill, and the latter was demolished in 1916 and was replaced by the Plaza Methodist Church.

The two gas lamps on the corner of La Plaza are the first lighting installed in Los Angeles. Click here for the first Los Angeles lighting equipment.#^#(Around 1869) ^^ -The end of the Los Angeles Plaza and the entrance of the wine street (renamed Olverela Street in 1877) is seen north of Pico's house. Avila Adobe can be seen on the wine street. Olbera Adobe is also on the right. The two fences running horizontally, the fence made by the wreck and the post and rail fence are visible on both sides of the road.

Los Angeles Harbor (San Pedro and Wilmington)

Don Francisco Abila, a wealthy livestock trader and a unique mayor of Los Angeles Pueblo, built Abila Adbe in 1818. Abila Adobe is now one of the oldest residence in the city area and one of the first village houses facing the road in the new Pueblo de Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1869) ^^ -The view of the "Former Plaza Church" (Mission Nuestra Senora Leina de Los Angeles) with the backdrop of Bear Hills. Chavez Lavigne, on the left church, is currently the Dodger Stadium.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The completed building was dedicated on December 8, 1822. The chapel named Jesus's mother, Maria, or the La Iglesia de nueStra de Los 'ros' ros 'ros', was rebuilt in 1861 using the original church materials. Later, the title of Reina, which means "queen", was given. For many years, this small chapel was called the nickname "La Placeta" and "Plaza Church", and was functioning as the only Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles, where immigrants were increasing.

(1870)^-"Old Placeta Church" near the front entrance. Opposite is La Plaza.

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The original "Our Lady Maria Church" built in 1822 had a campanalio with three bells, but when the church was rebuilt in 1861, it looks like Gazebo (photo above). It was replaced by a structure. The bell "wall" or "bell tower" will be revived again when the Plaza Church was repaired / renovated around 1901*^^^.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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(1869) ^^ -Pico House, Mason Lodge, Plaza area from the hill of Fort Moore. In the foreground is a village of small houses. There is Pico House beyond that, facing the main street. Plaza is on the left side of Pico House, and Mason Lodge (or Hall) is located on the right side of Pico House. Most of the buildings are houses.

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Pico House, built in 1869-70, was known as the "best hotel in Southern California," and had a "gender-shared bathroom and faucet" on each floor. Pio Pico, the last governor of California, Mexico California, sold the land owned by Sanfernando Valley and raised construction funds. It was the first thre e-story building in Los Angeles. The hotel had 82 bedrooms, 21 rooms, and two courtyards. There was a French restaurant on the floor.

(Around 1871) ^^ - La Plaza and Pico House are the centra l-right photos of Los Angeles lithograph to the right. This lithograph depicts a young Los Angeles, which is composed of an orchard and agricultural land that indicates an orchard and agricultural land (front). Most houses and buildings gather near the mountains in front.

(Around 1873)^ - projection crossing the square where three poses for photos. Plaza Church and Cape House Restaurant are in the background. You can see the hill of Fort Moore in the distant view. Note that the expression of the square has changed (compared to the previous photos).

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In 1969, the water storage tank was replaced with a fountain, the shape of the square was changed from a rectangle to a circular shape, and the site was landscaping and became a public park. This was performed by the newly established private water company La City Water Co., Ltd., one of the agreed agreements for a 3 0-year franchise agreement with the city.

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(Around 1873)^ -Pico House, Mercedo Theater, Main Street and Square indicating Mason Lodge. You can see the first gas factory in the foreground. The reservoir was built in 1867, Pico House and Mursed Theater were built in 1870, and Mason Lodge in 1865.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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The gas tanks were built in 1867 when the LA Gas Company (the precursor to the Southern California Gas Company) installed the city's first lighting system of 43 gas lamps along Main Street. By 1873, 136 gas lamps lit the city's exterior.

The arrival of electricity in 1882 changed everything. Click here for Los Angeles' first lights.

(c. 1870)

Close-up photo of the Pico House and surrounding area.

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The gas company's factory, including three large tanks, was located across the Plaza, just south of the Old Plaza Church (see next photo).

(1873)

* Ruxton Survey of Central Pueblo. This oversized platform shows the Plaza area in 1873, including the downtown area with the first buildings, the Zanja Madre ("Mother Ditch"), the streets in use, and the early owners of many of the properties. However, the layout of the plaza itself remains as it was before the landscaping was changed in the two years before Bakame rounded it out.

Click here to see more early views of Los Angeles Plaza.

(1800)^ - View of Tim's Point, Port of Los Angeles. The ocean and Deadman's Island are in the background. Railroad tracks are in the foreground.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Deadman's Island was one of two islands near San Pedro in the 19th century. Sometimes called Deadman's Island, Isla del Muerto, or the Detention House, the land was submerged in 1928 as part of the port development. The other island in the area, Rattlesnake Island, became Terminal Island.

(1870)^ - View of Wilmington Harbor in 1870, showing the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad, which was completed as a result of the Finch Ban of 1869. Prior to this, freight to Los Angeles was transported by oxcart and later by horse-drawn carriage.

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In 1542, Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo discovered the "Bay of Smoke". South San Pedro Bay was originally a shallow muddy area, too soft to support piers. Visiting ships had two options: drop anchor and take their luggage and passengers to shore. Or their beach.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Late 1800s)^ - View of transportation to unpaved carriages and Sanpedro. You can see the port in the distance.

(Around 1865)^ -The view of the Wilminton Exchangeable Building, a hotel and stage station in Los Angeles in the Canal Street (now Avalon Bluebird) before the railway is opened. In front of the hotel, there is a fou r-headed station car with passengers.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In addition to the freight business, Banning operated a carriage railway connecting Sanpedro and Wilminton, and later connected his name to Banning, California and Arizona.

In 1868, Banning built a railway connecting Sanpedro Bay and Los Angeles.

(Around 1888)*#* Mission to Sanpedro around 1888. Los Angeles Port

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1899)*#* The view of Los Angeles around 1899. It seems that many people are dressed up and watching the arrival of the ship.

Click here to see the early scenery of Sanpedro and Wilminton.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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In 1858, Aber Stars made a tw o-story business block on Los Angeles Street and named Arcadia Block after the young bride Arcadia.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Isias Wolf Hermann is a Germa n-born American banker, charity, and founder of the University of Southern California.

On September 1, 1868, Hermann and Temple established Hermann and Temple Shokai. In 1871, Hermann and John G. Downey (former Governor of California) established Farmers and Maccanz Bank and became the first bank in Los Angeles. Hermann bought Harrison Grey Otis the Los Angeles Times and funded Edward Dohenny and Charles Camefield.

Hermann was also the Lord of Southern California, owning many citys of land and a vast old Rancho. In 1871, he and Syndake purchased 13. 000 acres land. In 1881, members of the Hermann and Bixby clan purchased 26, 000 acres of Lanco Ross Aramitos (now long beach and seal beach). He also purchased a repet ranch (now Montebello) with Harris New Mark and Caspare Corn. Hermann and Downey also purchased Rancho Sanpedro from the Dominges family. Hermann owned Most of the Boyl Heights along with William H Workman.

When he died in 1920, Hermann was considered a leading financial company on the Pacific coast. His son (I. W. Jr.) and his grandson (Isias Warren Hermann) later became the President of Wells Furgo, and Union Trust Company merged with his death after his death. The farmers and merchants they established will later merge with security first national bank **.

(1860)^ --S. C. Foy Horse Store. A on e-story building with a brick with a door. The signboard of the store says "SADDLE & amp; amp? HARNESS MAKER, Leather Depot", with a horse silhouette drawn at the top. There are studs and saddles on the front, and several men are reflected on the camera.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1872, Foy built a house in a glass hopper (now Figeloa) and the 7th Avenue. This house was called the first thre e-story building in the city. When the Foi and his wife built a house, this place was thought to be "rural outfit."

Foy's daughter, Mary Foy, was the first woman from 1880 to 1884 as the first librarian, the leader of the California Women's Movement, the leader of the Democratic Party, and the national committee member of the main political parties^*.

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In 1829, Aber Stars traveled to Montray, California, and then settled in Pueblo de Los Angeles (now Los Angeles). He gained the right to build a warehouse in Sanpedro. Later, he established a station carrier route connecting Sanpedro Bay and Los Angeles Pueblo. In 1831, he built a thre e-story flour production place on the North Spring Street in Los Angeles. Suds quickly became one of the most important and influential California citizens in Pueblo.

Abel Stars represented the U. S. military Los Angeles from 1848 to 1850. At the 1849 California Constitutional Conference, he served as a representative of the Los Angeles district. Later, he served as California Congress, Los Angeles, and Los Angeles City Council.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1858) ^^+ -The southeast view shows a man with a rifle gun standing on the new high street (later Spring Street). The center right is the intersection of the new high streets and temple streets. The central tw o-story brick building is Allen Block on the spring and temple streets. Behind it is the temple block clock tower / court market. Click here to see another landscape of the new high streets and temple streets.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1868)+^ - In a synthetic panoramic photo seen in the southeast direction, you can see the Daiichi City Hall and Los Angeles Prison on the right of the center. The John Temple Building, which was built by 1858, is on the left.

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The first Los Angeles City Hall and prison were on the northwest corner of Spring and Jail (later the Franklin Street). The building was founded in 1850 and is directly opposite the city hall. Originally, it was built by Antus Jose Rosha, who came to Los Angeles from Portugal in 1815. In 1853, Los Angeles was a very violent city, killing one person in a fight or murder a day. They were often the victims of violence, so there was no law enforcement agency. ++#

The gardens behind the jail are the places where Galows was built to be assigned to the convicted prisoners. Some prisoners were alerted at a gate in the back of the prison garden (in other places). A 1 0-foot fence surrounding the gardens of the prison was created not to confine the prisoners, but to tighten the vigilante. +^^

Click here to see more photos of the first Los Angeles City Hall and prison.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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The photo above was taken from the Bunker Hill's Pound Cake Hill, a place where the former Los Angeles High School (1873) and the Los Angeles Court (1891) were later built.

It was around this time that Los Angeles began to grow most rapidly in the United States. By 1870, Los Angeles had a population of 5. 730, an increase of 350% compared to when it was transferred as a municipality in 1850. By 1900, Los Angeles' population grew to over 100, 000.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1869) ^^-Rendal looks closely at the panel on the left side of the early Los Angeles panoramic photo seen from the Court House Hill, showing the Griffin and Tomilson storage grounds in the lower right.

(Right panel of downtown Los Angeles in Los Angeles, looking southeast of Bunker Hill. The shooting location is later built in Los Angeles High School (1873) and the 2nd Los Angeles Court (1891). "The top of the hill called".

Calle de Los Negros

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Before the early 1980s, there appears to have been no organized attempt to preserve photographs of Los Angeles. The late S. A. Rendall, whose children now live in Los Angeles, was a photographer who dedicated himself to preserving early Los Angeles, the city of the 1960s and 70s. I don't know what became of most of his negatives, but if they were available today, they would be of great historical value. Perhaps his best remains a panoramic photograph of Los Angeles taken in 1868 from the site of the present courthouse. This photograph is the property of George W. Hazard, is copyrighted, and is available for sale. It is a remarkable photograph in every respect." #*

(1871)^^ - A lithograph of Los Angeles in 1871, with Poundcake Hill at its apex. Also in the picture are St. Athanasius Church, Downey Block, Temple Block, and Clock Tower Market/Court House.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Fort Street (top left) was extended horizontally across Temple Street. In 1890, it was renamed "Broadway".

(1873)^ - Old Los Angeles High School. Looking east from the hill on North Broadway at Court Street. The center building occupied Precinct 2 of the County Court (1891-1932) and is the old school building. Temple Block is to the right of the school building. Broadway, originally known as Fort Street, stretches through the brush in the foreground.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The first graduate in 1875 was seven.#^#^

(Around the 1870s)^ -In 1873, the first Los Angeles High School was built and Dr. Lucky served as the principal. The foundation was held on July 19, 1872. The cost is $ 19, 000. A horse stands next to the left fence.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1873) ^ ^ -Los Angeles, a newly constructed high school, Griffith Lynch and Company, and Church of St. Atanaus Episcopal. The New High Street is in the foreground and the intersection with the temple street is at the left center.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1874) ^^ - Los Angeles High School on the top of the pound cake hill. In the center of the photo, you can see the St. Atanasius Episcopal Church.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to see the early photos of St. Atanaus Episcopal Church.

(Age)^ -The photo of the main streets and first streets from the northwest direction. In the foreground, you can see the Los Angeles High School through the pound cake hill in the upper left.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1875)^ - The view near the coat street of Spring Street. On the right is F. Adam, a tailor shop. At the top of the building is a sign "Paris City?" Los Angeles High School is located in the pound cake hill on the back of these buildings.

(Around 1875)^ -The 3D photo of Fort Street (later Broadway) saw Temple Street south from Fort Hill. Los Angeles High School is located on the left pound cake hill.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Sonora Town

You can see the road in front of you with two depressions on the other side of the wall of the left house. A little catch from the middle right (before it disappears behind the house) is a Broadway, and is north from the intersection with the first street. You can see the first high school of Los Angeles beyond the pound cake hill. The school has a square dome, and three of the four (other than the west) have clocks. The other buildings in the photo are as follows: The Peel Store can be seen: the center right, the Spring Street and the west side of the coat streets. Immediately to the left is the Mae Sonic Lodge on the west side of Spring Street and Market Street. You can also see the temple blocks between the main streets and the spring streets, the temple streets and the market street. Downy blocks and Allen blocks (both are on Spring Street and Temple Street), and the upper right of the mirror printing shop in the Temple Store and New High Street. The Market Place and the Temple Theater (later Los Angeles's first court) are outside the right frame of the People's Store. The extreme background is the mountain range from left to right. The records of the previous version are described: "Kaku's sheriff's barn". ^^

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Los Angeles High School was founded in 1873 and is the oldest public high school in the Los Angeles unified school district. The building was opened on July 19, 1872 on Temple and Broadway (currently located in the Los Angeles Court) and opened in 1873. In 1891, Los Angeles High School near Fort Moore Hill was located on the North Hill Steet between California (now 101 Freeway) and Sunset Bulbad (now Cesar E. Chavez Street). In 1917, the school relocated again to the current Olympic Bourvard 4650 W..

(1871)^ - The view of the North Maine Street. Watch the north from the temple, and there is a downny block on the northwest corner (left). In the foreground, there are some crowded carriages.

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Bella Union Hotel is said to be the first hotel in Los Angeles. He became Cla Lenden in 1873 and became St. Charles in 1875. The Pico Bill on the left is a building where farmers and merchants lived and later merged with security Pacific Bank.

(1871)^ - July 4th, a parade by a veteran in the 1812 war on the North Maine Street. The men stand on the street in two rows, horses and cocks are waiting, and people are on the side. The background Bella Union Hotel is hidden in some trees.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In front of the Bella Union Hotel, it has long been used as a center of social and politics. On October 7, 1858, the first butterfield land mail from the eastern part arrived on the 21st and arrived on the 21st. Warren Hall was the driver and journalist Waterman Omsby was the only passenger.

The ruins of the Bella Union Hotel were designated as the California History 656. Click here for California History buildings in Los Angeles.

(1871)^ - The projection is the celebration of July 4 on the street in front of the Bella Union Hotel. There are crowds, people standing on horses and cats, and people who play musical instruments. The background Bella Union Hotel is hidden in trees.

(1870)^ --At depicting the main street of the 1870s. On the left was St. Charles Hotel, originally Bella Union Hotel. Bella Union became a claaden in 1873 and became St. Charles in 1875. On the right is the back of the Pico Building, and the head office of Farmers and Murchang Bank, which was later merged with security Pacific Bank. Next to Pico Bill is the Mercedo Theater and the 42nd Ma Sonic Lodge.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Early Los Angeles was a city of violence. Murder, riots, killing in highway, and entanglement of sloppy were everyday. From 1834 to 1874, the first and last lynch case was recorded in Los Angeles, and citizens rely on sel f-police. In the 1850s, local newspapers took most of the murder in each issue. The death of violence was so regular that these crimes rarely ended in a few lines. Even in the 1870s, when local newspapers were daily newspapers, most issues were published on assaults, entertainment, and not so many murders. ++

(Around 1875)*-The appearance of St. Charles Hotel (the angle is slightly different from the photo above).

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The Lafayette Hotel was built in the early 1850s and was the second city hotel after Bella Union (the third US hotel). It was renamed Cosmopolitan Hotel. In the 1870s, it was known as the best hotel in Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1870) ^^ -Calle de los Negros, Lafayette Hotel StageCoach near Adobes in Los Angeles Street and Arcadia Street. Behind is the old Antonio Coronel Ade. Many carriages and carriages are parked along the street. The above area is a place where the Chinese were slaughtered in 1871.

Los Angeles Plaza Area

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On the far left corner, on Arcadia Street, is a two-story brick building, which was mainly used by Caswell and Ellis for their grocery store (or perhaps Harris Newmark's general store?). On that corner was a saloon run by Margett, who first sold five-cent beer. Margett also had a ranch in the Antelope Valley, which was named "Cinco Centavos" after the five-cent beer. Margett's son later lived in Ocean Park. The vacant lot in the foreground of the image is the end of Los Angeles Street. The hat worn by the wagon driver is a typical French cap of the time^^.

(1850)^** - Northwest view of map showing LA Plaza and surrounding area in 1850. The intersection of Aliso Street (later Arcadia) and Los Negros Streets is shown in the lower right center, with the Antonio Coronel Adobe on the northwest corner.

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The Pico House (center right) was built in 1870.

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(circa 1870s)^- Close view of the Coronel brick covered sidewalk at the northwest corner of Arcadia Street and Los Negros Street (later Los Angeles Street). Sanchez Street is across from the Pico House (built in 1870) on the left, with LA Plaza (out of view) in the center right.

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Antonio F. Coronel, state treasurer and former mayor of Los Angeles, owned the area's rundown adobe stores and major apartment blocks. Coronel's house was the starting point of the 1871 Chinese Massacre.

LA's First Streetcars

Once home to Los Angeles's leading families, the area had become a slum by the time Los Angeles' first Chinatown was established in the 1860s.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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There is no colorful area as Kajet de Ross Negro in Los Angeles. It is a small unpaved street at the east end of a historic plaza, and is considered to be the center of the "red line" in the city. It is said that Saloon, gambling, prostitution, and other recreational facilities are crowded in Kajet, but the same can be said about crime **^.

(1886)^ -The view of "Kaje de Ross Negros" which became part of Los Angeles Street.

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(Around 1882)#^ - The view of Calle de Los Negros, one of the most rough streets in the city. In the background is the tower of the former Plaza Fire Station. The center of Chinatown, where 18 Chinese immigrants were slaughtered in 1871.

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The 1871 Chinese massacre was a riot that motivated racism in Los Angeles on October 24, 1871. More than 500 mobs invaded Chinatown, attacking, robbery, and killed Chinese residents. The riot occurred later in Caje de Ross Negro (Black Street), which was later called "Nigar Array", part of the Los Angeles Street. A total of 18 Chinese immigrants were systematically killed by mob, and the s o-called "China Town War" became the largest group lynch case in American history*^.

(Around 1886)^ -The view of Kaje de Ross Negro, which grows south of Plaza, along the east side of the current Los Angeles Street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Cale de Ross Negros was located just northeast of the main business district of Los Angeles, 500 feet from the intersection with the Arcadia Street to Plaza. This unpaved street was named after a brown Californian who originally lived there (Californians in Spanish, spoken in Spanish)*^.

(1886) ^^ - From Aliso Street, see the entrance of the alley east.

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300 Block of North Main Street

In 1886, the alley was eliminated when Los Angeles Street was extended, and its current location is adjacent to the Hollywood Freeway.

(circa 1869) ^^ - View of North Broadway (then Eternity Street), City of Sonora, looking north from Fort Hill. In the foreground on the left, a rock-cut section of the cityscape, with mostly Craftsman-style houses more or less arranged on each block, covers the area.

Temple Block

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(c. 1870)^^ - Photograph of Ludwig Luis Salvatore's drawing "Flowers from the Golden Country," showing North Broadway in Sonora from Hill Street to Sunset Boulevard. The Sonora city has houses and buildings built around courtyards. Streetcar tracks run down the center of the street, curving from the right toward the distant mountains. A grassy hill is partially visible in the foreground on the left.

(c. 1871)^ - Early view of Eternity Street in Sonora, northeast of Fort Moore Hill. Arrow points to Don José Aguilar's adobe house.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

It was later renamed Buena Vista Street and extended to the river. Fort Street was renamed North Broadway and moved to Buena Vista Street.

(1871)^ - View of "Sonoratetown" Los Angeles, 1871. The photo was taken from General Phineas Banning's house in Fort Hill, on the east side of North Broadway (then Buena Vista), from the hill where the North Broadway Tunnel was later discovered.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Broadway was officially opened in 1890. It was originally named Calle Fortin, because part of it led from the top of Fort Moore. Another section was called Eternity Street, because it led to a cemetery. Downey Street was named after Governor John G. Downey, and Buena Vista Street was a view from the slope of the ladies' pool (where the senoritas wore their bathing suits), which, according to legend, had a "good view."

Many German citizens in the area had trouble pronouncing it, so city officials eventually decided to rename it Fort Street. By 1910, all the sections bore the single name Broadway.

Temple Street

Click here to see more early views of the city of Sonora.

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In 1867, a French-Canadian immigrant named Prudent Baudry purchased the land on Bunker Hill for $51. Baudry built a system of pipes and steam pumps to carry water from the reservoir below to the top of the hill. He also built roads that connected the hill to the developed bottomlands below, and cut roads to the top of the hill. One of these, which Baudry named Bunker Hill Avenue to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle in Boston, eventually became the name of the entire community at the top of the hill.

In 1868, Prudent Beaudry and his two partners, John Griffen and Solomon Lazard, founded the private Los Angeles Water Company. They signed a 30-year franchise agreement with the city to operate the water system (1868-1898).

Prudent Beaudry also served as the 13th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1874 to 1876.

Then and Now

Click here for more information about water in early Los Angeles.

Main Street

(circa 1874)^^ - Looking southwest at the intersection of 1st and Fort Streets (later Broadway). The LA Times Building stands on the northeast corner in the lower right. A sign on a wooden shed reads "Liability and Feed Yard."

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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The lower right of the photo is the excavation site of the La Times Building completed in 1887. The upper left building, the first and the northwest corner of the first and the hill, is Villa Highland.

Downey Avenue Bridge

(1876)^ - A full view of LA Plaza on a very sunny day. Pico House is a thre e-story white building that stands out in the center of the photo. In the background, you can see the LA river.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1880, Pio Pico loses a hotel by seizure. The hotel was known as a national hotel between 1892 and 1920.

Pico House (hotel) was designated as California History 159. Click here to see the California historical building in Los Angeles.

Boyle Heights

(1870)^ -The Mercedo Theater is located between Pico House and Mason Lodge. This was the first business block of the main street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The Merced Theater, which was built in 1870 on North Maine Street next to Pico House, is the first building built in Los Angeles for theaters. It was built by the Cabinet minister William Abbott and named his wife Muraded Garcia*^*.

The theater was built in the Italian style and opened as a live theater from 1871 to 1876. When Woods Opera House opened near 1876, Merced was no longer the best in the city. Eventually, "an unfavorable ball was held and eventually closed by the authorities," he gained a "no reputation for doubt." *^

The Merced Theater is designated as California History No. 171 (click here to display all lists). It is also registered as a national history registered property.

(1874) ^^ -The tram on the Spring horse No. 6 Railway in front of Pico's house (Note: The first tram ran in 1874, but the first tram ran in 1874. It does not match the record).

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Los Angeles's first tram was operated by horsepower. Steam locomotives were thought to be too dirty and too dangerous to use in urban areas where scared horses are still easily and traveled, and the technology of cable cars was still new and expensive. On the other hand, the electric railway was more than 10 years ahead.

On July 1, 1874, the simple vehicle of the Spring and Six Street Railway became the first tram running in the city of Los Angeles. The Spring & Six Street Railway, established by lawyer Robert M. Widney, was operated on a regular schedule of one hour from 6:30 am to 10 pm on weekdays. With a fare of 10 minutes, the passengers were able to run a 1. 5-mile route from the temple and spring intersection to Six to the south and the west to Figelia.

Eventually, a new railway opened, and the existing routes extended the route throughout the city, and the Ross tram network has expanded. Plaza functioned as a central hub of the expanding tram network while extending the route in various directions in various directions.

(Around 1877)^## - La Plaza is on the left side of Pico House in the southeast. You can see the tram tracks on the unpaved road. Pay attention to the gas light on the left.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The situation changes completely when electricity is introduced in 1882. That year, a 3, 000 candle Ark light was raised on the top of the seven 150 feet pole. At that time, the technology level was encouraged to use tall standards with high degree. The gas streetlight will see the last day. **

Click here for the first lighting of Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Historical memo Los Angeles' first tram was run by horsepower. Steam locomotives were thought to be too dirty and too dangerous to use in urban areas where scared horses are still easily and traveled, and the technology of cable cars was still new and expensive. On the other hand, the electric railway was more than 10 years ahead.

(Around 1877)^## - La Plaza is on the left side of Pico House in the southeast. You can see the tram tracks on the unpaved road. Pay attention to the gas light on the left.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here for the first lighting of Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Historical Memoro Souvzeles's first tram was operated by horsepower. Steam locomotives were thought to be too dirty and dangerous to use in urban areas where horses that are still scared, and cable car technology was still new and expensive. On the other hand, the electric railway was more than 10 years ahead.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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In 1867, the first gas street light was installed in Los Angeles. A total of 43 pieces were installed on the main street. The ramprior on the horse ran on the street at dusk and lit the streetlight. By 1873, about 136 gas lamps became out of the town at night.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1878)^ -Pico House built by Pio Pico in 1869-70 (sometimes called "Old Pico House"). Look from the front entrance of the plaza. In front and side of the building, the tracks are running in the middle. The track was part of the East Ross and Sanpedro Street Railway. The same as above, but shows a part of the main street).

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The East Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad Company was founded by Judge Robert M. Widney (who was also one of the founders of the University of Southern California). The horse-drawn railroad ran north from 4th Avenue, paving the way for the new South Pacific depot. It only went as far as College Street and North Broadway.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to see an early view of the LA Plaza.

(circa 1878)^^ - View of the 300 block of N. Main Street looking south from near the LA Plaza. A horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of the Pico House, near the Merced Theatre on the left. The road is unpaved with a streetcar running down the center. Large imposing buildings stand on both sides of the street. On the left center of the street is a very large, ornamental building atop three prominent towers. This is the historic Baker Block.

Click here to see more early views of the 300 block of historic N. Main Street.

(circa 1850s)^^# - Sketch of John Temple's original two-story brick building at the intersection of Spring, Main, and Temple in what became known as the Temple Block.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1827, Jonathan Temple moved to Pueblo de Los Angeles and opened the first store in Pueblo, which he operated for nearly 30 years.

Temple Street (Los Angeles) was developed by him in the 1850s as a one-block dirt road.

Santa Monica

(circa 1872)^ - Exterior of Temple Block. Looking south toward Temple Street from a point on the Main Street side of the building. John Temple's original two-story brick building is visible as part of the Temple Block.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(n. d.) ^^ - Temple Square (Temple Block) is in the center of the old Los Angeles model photo. There is also a clock tower market/ court building built by John Temple in 1858. This will later become the current city hall.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to see the early photos of the original temple block.

(Around 1870)^ -A stereo photo map showing an unpaved temple street, looking west from the main street. On the right is the Downey block in the northwest corner.

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In 1827, Jonathan Temple moved to Pueblo de Los Angeles, opened the first store in Pueblo, and continued for nearly 30 years. Temple Street was developed by one block in the 1850s as an unpaved road.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1880)^ -The view of an unpaved temple street, looking west from the second floor of the main street temple block. A carriage and a carriage are parked along the street. On the right is the Downey block containing the crystal palace that runs and retailing dishes and ceramics. Behind it is the stable on the Temple Street. The left center, the staircase roof and the circular windows are the Church of St. Atanasius Episcopal on the southwestern corner of Temple Street and New High Street. In the foreground, you can see the telephone pole of the electric / telephone cable.

(1870)^## - The view in the northeast from the top of the pound cake hill. Indicates the Downey block (center) on the main street and the main street. The building with the won roof in front is the Church of St. Atanasius Episcopal. Opposite the street is the stables on the Temple Street (lower left). Temple blocks can be seen on the right of the center. The Los Angeles River flows horizontally at the top of the photo, with Aliso Street on the wide street on the upper left, with 101 freeways.

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(1873)^ - Photo of the main street from the north. See the Downey block on the northwest corner of the main street and the temple street on the left.

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(1873)^ - View of Main Street looking south from Temple Street.

(circa)^ - View of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles from the hill just north of Bishop Street on North Broadway. The Old Downey Street (now North Spring Street) bridge over the Los Angeles River is in the center.

(1886)^^ - Shows flood damage to the Santa Fe tracks on the Old Downey Street Bridge (now North Broadway) during the Great Los Angeles Flood of 1885-1886. A few people stand in front of a pile of lumber and castings near a forgotten part of Santa Fe on the banks of the Los Angeles River. In the foreground, two large ropes lead across a footpath to the river, and someone leans against a pile of rubble. The damaged Downey Street Bridge is visible on the opposite bank, and a streetcar is visible at the edge of the image.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1886, the LA River burst through the adjacent tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad. The Downey Street Bridge, visible in the background, was also destroyed.

Click here to learn more about the unpredictable LA River.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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In 1858, Andrew Boyle purchased land in Paredon Blanco, planted a vineyard, and built a house on what would become Boyle Avenue. When California was part of Mexico, the area was called Paredon Blanco (White Bluff).

In 1875, William H. Workman subdivided the east side of the Los Angeles River for housing and named it "Boyle Heights" in honor of his father-in-law, who inherited the land.

(1877)^*^** - Detail of previous plan, showing the city's first bridge, Macy Street Bridge, on the right, and the future Aliso Street Bridge on the left. Looking west from Boyle Heights toward Downtown Los Angeles.

(circa 1880)^ - J. E. Hollenbeck's "Paredon Blanco" house, in Boyle Heights, 1-1/4 miles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1874, John Edward Hollenbeck and his wife visited Los Angeles. The community was growing rapidly, and businesses were investing heavily in anticipation of the coming of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Hollenbeck, who had made his fortune in Nicaragua, purchased many properties during his visit to California and deposited his funds in the Temple & Workman Bank. Hollenbeck soon closed his Nicaragua business and made his final visit to the United States.

LA's 1st Bridge

Arriving in Los Angeles in the early spring of 1876, Hollenbeck purchased land on the east side of the Los Angeles River and built a large mansion with a wide porch and tower on a large lot on Boyle Street. He had acquired 27 properties by 1880, spending $108, 875 on a total of 6, 738 acres. This included 600 acres south of the city limits, much of which was vineyard land. The San Gabriel Valley had orange, lemon, and grape orchards. He also invested in a 3, 500-acre grain and livestock ranch at Rancho La Puente. In 1884, he purchased and developed an urban business district in Los Angeles known as the Hollenbeck Block.

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In 1878, Hollenbeck became a stockholder in the Los Angeles Commercial Bank and was elected president. In 1881, Hollenbeck and other investors founded the First National Bank.

(circa 1873)^^ - Plan of Los Angeles, circa 1873, looking north from the intersection of Main, Spring, and 9th Streets.

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(1868)^ - View of Osro Childs' orange grove in 1868, at the corner of Main and 12th Streets. The Childs home was at 1111 Main Street.

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San Fernando Mission

Osro W. Childs was contracted to expand the Zanja Madre, a canal system that brought water to the fields south of the pueblo. He purchased land in what is now downtown Los Angeles, from 6th to 9th Streets and from Main to Figueroa Streets. To learn more about the Zanja Madre, Los Angeles' original aqueduct, click here.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Childs also focused on charity. When Judge Robert McLay Widney tried to establish a university in Los Angeles in the 1870s, he was assisted by an Atsushi, including Childs. In 1879, Chals donated a large amount of land to the University of Southern California, and the university opened in 1880*^.

(Around 1874)#^ - Los Angeles downtown and the intersection with the temple street from the south. At the intersection with the Temple Street on the right, you can see the steep roof of the St. Atanasius Episcopal Church, and beside it, there is a tw o-story building with a sign of "Furniture & Amp; Bedding". In the back, you can see a large building. This is LA's first synagogue, B'nai B'rith Church.

(1874)^ - Go south on Spring Street from Temple Block. The large building in the distance is the first Jewish Sinagog in Los Angeles. The lower left is the first night expression office in the temple block. Pay attention to the track running in the center of the spring street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1873, B'nai B'rith Church was built on the Fort Street between 2-chome and 3rd chome. Currently, a commemorative plate is installed in this place.

(1874)+^-A wide-angle photo of Spring Street from the south. On the right of the center is a building with a steep roof, and there is a sign that says "Commercial Law Gathering". The building just south of the Spring Street and the northwest corner of the Spring Street and Franklin Street is the first Los Angeles city hall shared by the city and county. The highest building in the upper part of the photo is Los Angeles' first synagogue, built in 1873.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Catalina Island

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Historic memo This land was the basis of his property. He built a fine house in a hal f-miling 10th and main from downtown and planted plants on the site. At that time, Ozlo Childs was the most prominent plant seedling trader in Los Angeles.

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In 1873, B'nai B'rith Church was built on the Fort Street between 2-chome and 3rd chome. Currently, a commemorative plate is installed in this place.

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In August 1853, a brick house built in the 1820s on the northwest corner of Spring Street and Franklin Street was sold to Los Angeles County by John Temple by John Temple. It will be used as. The city owned a quarter of the land, and the county owned thre e-quarters. The brick prison used by both the city and the county was built behind a brick prison from 1853 to 1954.

Click here to see the early photos of the first city hall. Click here to see the first city hall and the first Los Angeles prison.

(Around 1875)^ -The photo of seeing the main street south from near Bella Union Hotel. You can see the temple blocks and Downey blocks at the intersection of the main streets, spring streets and temple streets (upper left). There are stables on both sides of the main street in front. The main street and the tracks on the Agricultural Park Street are running in the center of the street.

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The main street & aggulical tulle railway was the first suburban railway in Los Angeles, chartered in November 1874. The tracks were run from the main street to the Washington Avenue, and were extended to Agricolic Tulal Park (currently E x-Position Park) through Washington, Figeloa, Wesrian (now Universalian Bennu).

With the funding of John Downey, Isias Hermann, William Workman, etc., the railway connecting the main street and the agricultural park street is a business area near the temples and rivals, and an agricultural park, which was a gambler and rival nest. I tied it. This park, which has a racetrack, a bar, and a prostitution, was renamed the Expo Park in 1913.

(Early 1870's) ^^ - In the early 1870s, the mud path Sanpedro Street near 2nd Avenue. You can see the pillars of the gas light surrounded by a puddle.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1873, about 136 gas lamps were lighting outdoors in Los Angeles. When electricity was introduced in 1882 and the first electric street light was installed in Los Angeles, the situation changed completely (click here for the early Los Angeles streetlights).

(Around 1874^ -Farmer Dennis Sullivan is currently farming in Los Angeles City College, currently on Vermont Avenue. Until UCLA relocated to Westwood, this land was the location of UCLA. The early UCLA of UCLA. Click here to see more landscapes.

McDonald Block

(1875)^ --Nrap Avenue seen from the east in 1875. There is a small residential area, and there are farms and orchards beyond that. On the right, you can see the newly built Los Angeles and Independence Railway Terminal on the 5th Avenue and Sanpedro Street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The Los Angeles and Independence Railway Company was in January 1875, Francisco P. Temple, John P. Jones, Robert S. Baker, T. N. Park, James A. Prichard, J. S. Slauson, It was established with J. U. Crawford as a director. Colonel Crawford was an engineer and a general manager.#^#

The 16, 6 7-mile tracks between Los Angeles and Santa Monica were built in the private sector without government subsidies or land provision, and completed in more than 10 months. The land between Los Angeles and Santa Monica was provided by local ranchers who were eager to access the railway. The railway was opened on October 17, 1875, with two trains a day between Santa Monica and Los Angeles. The fare was $ 1 a round trip, and the fare was $ 1 per ton*^.

Signoret Block

(1875) ^^ - The view of the locomotive in front of the Los Angeles and Independence Railway Terminal (1875) in the 5th Avenue and Sanpedro (1875). From the main building on the left and right of the entrance, there are two gorgeous brick towers.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Southern Pacific Railway Railway Railway Refusal, and the unexpected depletion and closure of Panamint Ginzan (owned by John P. I fell into a financial difficulty. On July 4, 1877, the Los Angeles & Independence Railway was acquired by the Southern Pacific Railway.

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(1875) * around 1875, the view of Santa Monica and Bay, which indicates the roads and wharfs on the Los Angeles & Independence Railway. The wharf was completed in 1875 and was sold to the Southern Pacific Railway in June 1877.

Spring Street

Historical memo (1875)^ --Notable viewed from the east in 1875. There is a small residential area, and there are farms and orchards beyond that. On the right, you can see the newly built Los Angeles and Independence Railway Terminal on the 5th Avenue and Sanpedro Street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Main, Spring, and Temple Streets

(1876)#^ - Locomotive full of passengers who are about to depart for Santa Monica

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Historical memo (1875)^ --Nottest viewed from the east in 1875. There is a small residential area, and there are farms and orchards beyond that. On the right, you can see the newly built Los Angeles and Independence Railway Terminal on the 5th Avenue and Sanpedro Street.

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Main Street

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1876)#^ - Locomotive full of passengers who are about to depart for Santa Monica

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Click here for Los Angeles & Independence Railway.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

With the opening of a new railway, Santa Monica has become easier to access from Angelino. Tourists came to visit, and the town has grown and prospered. In November 1886, the elections went to vote and decided to transfer Santa Monica for 97 to 71.

(1880)* -1880, the view of Santa Monica pier and beach. People walking on the promenade, sitting on the beach and enjoying surfing. It was considered casual clothes in the 1800s.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

This was not the same pier as the current Santa Monica Pier. Later, several other piers were built.

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(1875)^ - In the 1870s, the whole view of Sonora City seen from Pico House. The large thre e-story building with a large background is Los Angeles Charitable Institute, operated by Sister of Charity.

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In front of the photo above is the courtyard of Nuestra Senora Leina de Rosanhes, where you can see the kitchen of the priests, the residence of the bishops, the houses of the priests, the elementary school, and the citrus orchard. On the left is a lo w-white advice, and there is a bakery where Pierre Doggen and his Indian wife bake French bread in Sawdow. Immediately behind the bakery is a Panconi winery (later restaurant "La Golon Lina"). Behind the church, you can see the Adobe House of Mrs. John Jones, the parents of Mrs. Lankasm.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1880)* -1880, the view of Santa Monica pier and beach. People walking on the promenade, sitting on the beach and enjoying surfing. It was considered casual clothes in the 1800s.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In the mi d-1880s, Santa Monica boiled in the sightseeing boom. In the summer of 1887, about 2, 000 to 3, 000 tourists visited Santa Monica.

This was not the same pier as the current Santa Monica Pier. Later, several other piers were built.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1875)^ - In the 1870s, the whole view of Sonora City seen from Pico House. The large thre e-story building with a large background is Los Angeles Charitable Institute, operated by Sister of Charity.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1860)^ -The watercolor painting of the first school in Los Angeles (and Sisters of Charity orphanage) drawn by students in 1860.

Historical memo The opening of a new railway has made Santa Monica accessible from Angelino. Tourists came to visit, and the town has grown and prospered. In November 1886, the elections went to vote and decided to transfer Santa Monica for 97 to 71.

(1880)* -1880, the view of Santa Monica pier and beach. People walking on the promenade, sitting on the beach and enjoying surfing. It was considered casual clothes in the 1800s.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

This was not the same pier as the current Santa Monica Pier. Later, several other piers were built.

Click here to see more about Santa Monica's early scenery.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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(1860)^ -The watercolor painting of the first school in Los Angeles (and Sisters of Charity orphanage) drawn by students in 1860.

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The school was located on the Alameda at Macy Street. It was called the Los Angeles Charities Institute, later the Los Angeles Orphanage, or in Spanish, Casa de las Hermanas. The sisters purchased the old Benito Wilson frame house on the right, which had been shipped in pieces to the Horn area. The lot was about 12 acres and sold for $8, 000. The house was demolished and a brick building was built with materials also shipped to the Horn area by sailing ship. The sale took place in 1856, and the building was completed in 1858 and used until 1891. At the time the school opened, there were about 20 girls. Don Francisco Coronel (father of Don Antonio Coronel) and his two daughters were teachers. One daughter later married the historian Bancroft. This was later the site of the post office. (circa 1875)^ - Early view of the surrounding plaza including the Antonio Maria Lugo Adobe, built in 1820, in San Pedro near Second Avenue. The Lugo Adobe is indicated by a star (center right) and the large tower building in the distance in the center is the Wallace Woodworth House.

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Antonio Maria Lugo (1775-1860) was born at Mission San Antonio de Padua near Monterey. A corporal in the Spanish army, he was discharged after 17 years and given 29. 514 acres of land as a reward for his loyalty to the Spanish Crown and the army. He named this land Rancho San Antonio after the house where he was born. Lugo had a beautiful adobe house in the pueblo, located on its own plaza and across from the church.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(circa 1885) ^^ - Exterior of the house of Don Antonio Mario Lugo, near San Pedro Street and Second Street in Los Angeles.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(circa 1875)^ - Looking west on Temple Street toward Horticultural Hill. Olive Street is in the foreground. Temple Street Agricultural Pavilion is at the top right. The Hollywood Hills are faintly visible in the background. The tallest peak, Hollywood Peak, can be seen near where Griffith Observatory now stands.

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The pavilion is the largest and tallest structure, seen at the top right of the photo. A grand staircase would later be built from the pavilion down Temple Street. Directly across from the pavilion on Temple Street was Sarah Bixby Smith's first home in Los Angeles (Adobe Days, 1931). In her memoirs of early Los Angeles, she describes the Garden Pavilion as a "wooden barn-like structure."

In 1880, President and Mrs. Hayes visited Los Angeles, becoming the first presidents to visit California. After a speech on the grandstand in front of the Bakery Block, the visitors had tea at St. Elmo's Hotel. In the evening, the Horticultural Pavilion hosted a reception and banquet for the President and Mrs. Hayes.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Also shown in the photo is the early home of J. W. Gillette, who built Angel's Flight for Colonel Eddy. It is near the center of the photo and has a fenced yard. It faces the temple.

(circa 1895)#++-View of the 200 block of South Olive Street, downtown Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Similar houses can be seen on Carroll Avenue in Angelino Heights, a suburb of downtown.

(1877)*#* - Detail from E. S. Glover's painting of Los Angeles, showing the first Los Angeles bridge on the right and the future Aliso Street Bridge on the left. Looking west from Boyle Heights toward downtown Los Angeles. At the top of Pound Cake Hill, Los Angeles High School is visible in the upper right.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1870, a furniture company called Perry & Woodworth built a roof bridge, Los Angeles's first permanent bridge. The construction of the bridge was regarded as a major achievement of citizens, and people from San Diego gathered to see the opening.

The roof bridge, reminiscent of New England, puts Old Aliso Road, part of El Camino Real (later called Macy Street, now called Cesar Chavez Avenue) on the Ros Angeles. It was a wooden bridge. It connects the place where the carriage was once crossed a calm river in summer, or the place where the river turned into a torrent in winter storms, and now the rive r-growing city of Los Angeles and the east coast of the river. 。

(Around the 1870s)*^^# -Teleo photo of a roof bridge over Old Aliso Road (Macy Street).

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Without this long period, there would have been unlikely to expand the east of Los Angeles, which had begun immediately after the end of the Civil War, at the time, which had begun the first larg e-scale development at the time.

In 1873, local influential people created East Los Angeles for sale (later renamed Lincoln Heights), and in 1875, the trio of William H. Workman, Isaus Herman, and John Lazarovic's trio. I developed Heights*^^#.

(1873) ^^ - The first photo of San Fernando Valley taken in 1873. In the center of the photo, the San Fernando Ray de Espana evangelical place is shown. Except for the expedition, the vast land seems to be completely deserted. Mission San Fernandand Ray de Espana is located at San Fernando Mission Bourvard 15151.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In 1821, the Mexico Independence War was successful, and Mission Sun Fernando became part of Alta California in Mexico. In 1834, the Mexican government began redistribution of missions. In 1846, Governor Pio Pico issued a Mexican territory at the site of the Sun Fernando Mongo. The north was surrounded by the Rancho San Francisco and the Santa Susana vein, the west was surrounded by the spots Hills, the east was Rancho tohanga, and the south was Montanas de Portes erotic (Santa Monica Mountains).

Pershing Square Area

Click here for the early landscape of the Sun Fernando Mission. In 1870, a furniture company called Perry & Woodworth built a roof bridge, Los Angeles's first permanent bridge. The construction of the bridge was regarded as a major achievement of citizens, and people from San Diego gathered to see the opening.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around the 1870s)*^^# -Teleo photo of a roof bridge over Old Aliso Road (Macy Street).

Historical memo

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here for the early landscape of the Sun Fernando Mission. In 1870, a furniture company called Perry & Woodworth built a roof bridge, Los Angeles's first permanent bridge. The construction of the bridge was regarded as a major achievement of citizens, and people from San Diego gathered to see the opening.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here for the early landscape of the Sun Fernando Mission.

(Around 1875)#^ - View of the Sanfernando Valley, which is hardly productive in the whole view of the San Fernand expedition. In the distance, you can see the Hollywood Hills and the Kafunga Pass (the lowlands on the upper right side), and the back of Mt. #^*

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Former Mission Lanco Sain t-Fernando is a land of 116. 858 Achers, a Mexican territory given to Eurochio de Celis by Pio Pico in 1846. The permit was derived from the sophisticated mission, Sun Fernando Ray de Espana, but was divided from the land owned by the mission, so it was named Ex Mission. This land contained most of the current San Fernando Valley*^.

(Around 1870) ^^ -The appearance of Sunfernando and California. There are two soil roads from the front, crossing in the Adobe corridor of the mission on the right of the center. The arch collective supports the eaves of the terracotta ceiling on the patio of the corridor. There are more Adobe architecture on the left, and on the left side of the old corridor, which has collapsed, has a tw o-story Adobe architecture.

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In 1874, after the death of Eurochio de Celis, the clan was the northern half of the former Mission San Fernando Lancho, Charles McRe, California Senator Charles McRe, and his colleagues George K. Sold to Porter, cousin Benjamin F. Porter. Porter's land was on the west side of the current Septurbeda Avenue, most of Chutsworth, and Macrley's land on the eastern side of Sepurbeda Avenue. Rosco Odori is on the south border, and a syndicate led by Isaac Ranker Sim acquired the southern half of the valley*^.

(1800)^ - The view of the building of a convent, also known as a "long building". Two families standing next to the horse stopped along the road, which became "El Camino Real".

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(1887) ^^ - View of Abalon Bay, Catalina. Fandale's steamship and scooter ruby are reflected. A scooter is visible on the center of the center, and in front of it is a small frame and two people. On the left, you can see the second yacht. The steam ship raises the American flag from the starboard stern. In the background, the ridge of the mountain and a large hill are drawn.

Then and Now

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The first Europeans who landed on Santa Catalina Island were Portuguese explorers, Juan Rodriguez Cabrygio, and he sailed under the name of the Spanish royal family. On October 7, 1542, he made the island as Spanish territory and named San Salvador Island after his ship. More than half a century later, on the night of St. Catarina (November 24), the other Spanish explorer, Sebastian Vischano, rediscovered the island. Biscinino renamed the island after the saint.

(Around 1888)#**^ -The steam dock in the Avalon Bay and the view of the metropol hotel in Avalon in Santa Catarina (also known as Catalina or Catalina).

Before and After

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Spring and 6th Street

The first owner to develop Avalon as a resort was George Chateau, a real estate speculator from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Chateau purchased an island for $ 200. 000 from Rick Estate during the peak of the South California Real Estate boom in 1887. Chateau is known for built a village to become an Avalon later and built the first hotel in the town, Metropol Hotel and Dock. The name Abalon was taken by his sister Etta Whitney from Alfred Road Tennisn's poetry, the King's Poetry, based on the Legend of Arthur.

Main Street

(Around 1890) ^^ - View Avalon Bay from the back mountain of Metropol Hotel (center). A steamship can be seen in the center of the bay just ahead of the hotel. Many houses can be seen, and there are Sugar Rof points on the left.

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To expand the Avalon tourist group, Chateau used a steam ship rented from Bannings for a round trip to the mainland. Some of the island tourists have come to buy Avalon's land, and Chateau auctioned for $ 150 to $ 2, 000, depending on the location and size. The purchasers were able to set up tents and build a summer house. However, Chateau repeatedly claimed, and a few years later, the mortgage payment was delayed, and the island returned to Rick's House. ^^

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Phineas Banning's sons bought the island from James Lick's estate in 1891 and formed the Santa Catalina Island Company to develop it as a resort. They had several reasons for wanting Catalina Rock. They wanted to build a breakwater in Wilmington for their shipping company. They also had just built a luxurious new ship, the Hermosa, to attract tourists to the island. If tourism failed, this investment would be in jeopardy. By owning the Catalina, they not only got the rock, but the tourist tolls and the whole of the island.*^.

(1891)#^*^ - Panoramic view of Avalon Bay on Santa Catalina Island. A rock called Sugarloaf Point can be seen in the upper right. The steamship S. S. Hermosa heads out to sea from a pier near the Metropole Hotel. Cottages can be seen along the beach. On the right is a large Victorian house (Holly Hill House) with a panoramic view of the bay. The house still stands today and is the oldest surviving structure in Avalon.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1870)^ - View of wheat fields in pastureland near Temple Street and North Vermont Avenue, showing houses, farm buildings and a windmill.

(c. 1858) ^^+ - View to the southeast showing a man with a rifle standing on New High Street (later Spring Street). Center right is the intersection of New High Street and Temple Street. The two-story brick building in the center is the Allen Block, at the corner of Spring and Temple Streets. In the background is the Clocktower Market/Court (built 1858) in the Temple Block. Click here to see the new skyscrapers and Temple.

(1876)^ - Looking east at the Old Courthouse built by John Temple for a market and theater. Spring Street to the west, Main Street to the east, Market to the north, Stadium to the south. The Courthouse occupied this building from 1861 to 1891.

Historical Notes

Cahuenga Pass

Temple is one of the initial developers in Los Angeles, building landmarks such as original temple blocks and market houses. Market House was later used as a city and county administrative office, there were county courts, and Southern California's first ful l-fledged theater. He also served as the first alkarde (or mayor) of Los Angeles (or mayor) in Los Angeles after Pueblo was occupied by the United States in the U. S. War.

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(1876)^ -Selow the Old McDonald's Block and Alex Mackenzy liquor store between the main street and the COURT. On the right, you can see the old court of John Temple and the clock tower.

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The first organizational conference of Los Angeles Athletic Association was held in 1880 in Jadson, Gillett, and Gibson's office on the second floor of the Old McDonald Block on the main street. James B. Ranker Sim was the first chairman of Laac. He later became a leading person in the development of downtown business districts.

(1880)^ - McDonald's Block Building lithograph of the main street, 1880.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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Felix Signoret was born in France on June 9, 1825 and lived in Marseille before traveling to the United States. The occupation was a barber, and later became the owner of an apartment. In 1871 he purchased the land of 125 Aliso Street and built a "substantial brick house" with a width of about 30 feet and a area of about 1, 800 square feet. The roof is, "Hitting the mantle in the modern form .................................................... It has come. "

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

He also led a lynch mobilization of five men in Los Angeles, from 1869 to 1970, after a murder case from the "aggressive remarks on the newly organized French charity association". But it is known.

In 1874, Signoret built a new hotel on the opposite side of Pico House, north of the Arcadia Street, between the main street and Turner Street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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In 1876, when this photo was taken, Santa Monica was driven by the land boom. The bus to the beach has been abolished, and the Los Angeles & Lamp, which carried passengers for $ 1 roun d-trip, to give passengers to swim, picnic, and buy land in a growing community. I set up.

Broadway and 2nd Street

The headquarters of the butterfield overland stage is designated as the No. 744 California historical building. Click here to see more California historical buildings in Los Angeles.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around the 1870s) ^^* - This is the oldest photo of the Los Angeles volunteer fire department. In the corner of the main street and the spring street, the firefighter of the carriage following the uniform firefighter (volunteer) is parading while looking at the downy block on the left.

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There is a difference between the displayed date and the event. The following are two different captions attached to this photo:

Main and 3rd Street s

"The first fire brigade was formed on September 30, 1871. The boys celebrated the first anniversary on the parade. This is the first photo of the fire brigade. The camera is the main street. Pico's house was visible in the background of Spring Street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1876)^ - Near the first street in spring. The first butterfield Overland stage, which arrived in Los Angeles in 1858, used a stage depot / stable to polish the horse on the left.

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Main and 2nd Streets

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1876) ^^ - July 4, 1876: Los Angeles celebrated the 100th anniversary of the United States and parade a dusty spring street.

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There is a difference between the displayed date and the event. The following are two different captions attached to this photo:

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1876)^ - Near the first street in spring. The first butterfield Overland stage, which arrived in Los Angeles in 1858, used a stage depot / stable to polish the horse on the left.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1876) ^^ - July 4, 1876: Los Angeles celebrated the 100th anniversary of the United States and parade a dusty spring street.

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There is a difference between the displayed date and the event. The following are two different captions attached to this photo:

Spring and 1st Street

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1871)^ -Another photo of the Downey block looking north from the main street and spring streets, Temple Street. Several carriages run on the street, and pedestrians come and go. The sign at the edge of the balcony is the word "Levy & amp; COBLENTZ".

(1875)^ - The view on the North Maine Street side of Downey Block. Two good men are standing on an unpaved road in front of the building.

(Around 1878)^ - The view on the north side of the main street from the temple block. The photo was taken in the fall of 1883 before the farmers and bank merchants relocated to the main streets and commercial streets. The right end is a commercial bank, which was changed to the First National Bank in 1880. On the left is a firearm store in Downey Block. You can see the bakery block dome in the distance.

(1880)^ -St. Charles Hotel, originally Bella Union Hotel. Bella Union became a claaden in 1873 and became St. Charles in 1875. Pico Bill on the left is the main store of Farmers and Murchang Bank (later merged with a security bank). It also shows the telegraph Atlantic and lamp on the lower floor of Backman House; Pacific's office.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

It was 1860 that the telegraph invented in 1832 by Pabel Shilling and Samuel Morse reached Los Angeles in 1860*^.

The prohibition of Finnias brought a telephone line to Los Angeles. In 1860, the telephone line gradually grew from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Due to the delay in progress, Banning ordered electric wires and began to build from the end. Of course, starting from Wilminton, the link was completed on October 8, 1860, and Los Angeles was no longer an isolated outpost*#.

Click here to see Finneas Banning and Wilminton in detail in the early scenery of Sanpedro and Wilminton.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1880)^ -Sometimes called Pico House built by Pio Pico in 1869-70, Old Pico House. Standing next to Pico House on the left, horses and buggy are waiting. Looking down on the block, you can see the Mercedo Theater, two more buildings, and the bakery block tower.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The Baker Block was completed in 1878 by Colonel Robert S. Baker.

(1880)^ - The corners of Arcadia Street and the southeast of the main street. A building with three different towers is Baker Block.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Arcadia Street was dedicated in 1872. Arcadia Bandini, born in 1823, was the daughter of famous Ranchero, Juan Bandini. She was 14 years old when she came west from Massachusetts and got a 4 4-yea r-old Aber Stars, who got the largest Empire of Southern California. For the bride, Stars built a house in the southern on e-block of the square, the center of the community, and the house, called El Paracio, became a hot spot for the social world. In 1858, Stars created a tw o-story business block on a nearby Los Angeles Street and named Alcadia blocks. This street was officially named in 1871, the year after Steans died.

In 1874, Arcadia married Colonel Robert S. Baker (1826-1894), owner of Rancho Saint Visente Lee Lee Santa Monica, and settled in Santa Monica. The famous Arcadia Hotel in the old town of Santa Monica was named after her name*^.

Click here for Arcadia Hotel in the early scenery of Santa Monica.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Historical memo

The Bella Union Hotel, built in 1835, has a long and rich history of the photo above (the photo above is St. Charles Hotel). Until October 1851, it was used as a county court, and in 1860 it became a champagne festival venue to celebrate San Francisco and Los Angeles by telegraph.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Historical memo

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the late 1870s, and Los Angeles quickly adopted the new technology. In 1879, the Los Angeles Telephone Company was founded and began telephone service in what is now downtown Los Angeles, just one year after the first telephone in North America was installed in New Haven, Connecticut (January 1878). The Los Angeles Telephone Company started with only seven subscribers.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Historical note

In 1883, the Los Angeles Telephone Company merged with another local telephone company based in Northern California, the Sunset Telephone Company. In 1906, the Sunset Telephone Company was purchased by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (later Pacific Bell).

Then and Now

(1888)^## - Looking south on the west side of the 300 block of Main Street from Pico's house. Horses share the road with pedestrians, carriages, and a man on horseback (center left).

First Street (looking East from Hill Street)

Historical Notes

In the 1940s and 1950s, historic buildings in the 300 block of North Main were demolished to make way for the extension of Aliso Boulevard from Los Angeles Boulevard to Broadway. A few years later, the Hollywood Freeway (U. S. Route 101) would be built on this new extension of Aliso Boulevard.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1880)^ - View of Los Angeles looking northeast from First Street. The old courthouse with its distinctive clock tower can be seen in the upper right of the photo.

Spring and 1st Street

(circa)^ - Aerial view of Los Angeles between 1874 and 1880, including the De Princesse Hotel, Farmers and Merchants Bank, St. Charles Hotel (formerly the Bella Union Hotel), and the grand Baker Block with its tower along Main Street.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The splendid thre e-story Baker Block was completed around 1877 by Colonel Robert S. Baker. For several years, offices, stores and apartments have been in the building. Purchased by Goodwill Industry, South California in 1919. Despite the plan to move the building for another purpose, the city purchased a baker block from Goodwill in 1941 and demolished the building one year later. Currently, the US National Route 101 is under the place where these buildings used to be.

(1880) ^^ - L. L. L. LICHTENBERGER'S CARRIAGE FACTORY, Los Angeles, 1880. A carriage picture and the name of L. Liechtenberger are displayed on the signboard in front of the first floor of the building and the second floor. Another sign is listed on the roof: "Horse Magic Manufacturing". Several carriages are parked in front, and a handful of workers pose with a face in front of the building.

Spring and 2nd Street

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1880)^ -Men and carriages in front of Louis Lauder dealers handling wagons, carriages, and carts on the Spring Street and No. 2.

Main Street

(1881)^ -The view of New York Saloon, which promotes 5 cents beer in the northeast corner of Spring Street. There is a pouch in the on e-story building, and a tree is planted at the top. Men stand in front and barrels on the wall. The walls of "sake and cigars" are drawn on the wall.

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(Around 1880) ^^ -The view of the people standing outside the gay general store, the headquarters of Milton Thomas Nursery in Los Angeles. In the center, a man cleans the carriage, and five children are sitting on the wooden sidewalk on the right. On the right side of the wood head & gay, there is a sign of Milton Thomas on the growing land. "The Headquarters of Milton Thomas and the Co-Operative Nurseries and Fruit Growing Association Southern California Agency for Trumbull's FlowN ER Field and Tree Seeds is written.

(Around the 1880s)^ -The exterior of the liquor wholesaler Ragat & Bosch in New High Street (later Spring Street) sandwiched between Franklin and Temple. The sign indicates that there is a sample room in the back. Next door is the office of lawyer J. M. Davidson.

(1880)^ - New High Street (later Spring Street), the north of Temple Street, the Church of the First Association and the Kimbore Mansion where Helen Hunt Jackson stayed.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was a poet and writer, and became an activist seeking improvement in the US government's native American treatment. She specifically describes the adverse effects of government behavior in the story "A Century of IMPUNITY" (1881). Her novel, Ramona, dramatically described the abuse of the federal government in South California by the federal government and attracted a lot of attention in its cause, but its popularity is more romantic than political content. It was based on the characteristics. The work was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and contributed to the development of the South California tourism industry.

(1880)^ -Another view of the first party in the New High Street near the temple street and the Kimbornies House. A carriage and horse can be seen next to the barn in front.

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The first church was dedicated by Rev. Alexander Parker on June 26, 1868, and was used in Hill until the new church was built in the Third and Amplifier in 1883.

Click here to see the early photos of the first church (Los Angeles's oldest continuous Protestant Church).

Spring and Temple Streets (looking West)

(Around 1880)^ - The view of Hill Street, see the north from 3rd. A man walking in front of Farish real estate / insurance office. The side palm tree is behind the office building. There is an electric railway track on the road, but it is still unpaved.

(Around 1880)^-Hill Street, seeing the third street south from the bunker Hill. The center of the photo is the first Congriginal church in Hill Street and Hill Street. The spire on the left side of the church is from the German Methodist Church at 4-chome.

Main, Temple, and Spring Streets

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here for details about the initial Los Angeles water.

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(Around 1881) ^^- A whole view from the south of Fort Street (later Broadway) near the temple street. You can see the Los Angeles High School on the left, which will later become the Lady Court. The high spiral church in the distance is Fort Street and the first elder church in the southeast corner of 2nd Avenue.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to see the early photos of Los Angeles High School.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1885)^ --Vises the bunker hill of 1885 from the west. Hill Street passes through the center, and the thir d-seater (not shown) is on the left side of the first church (left), which will later become Central Baptist Church and Unity Church.

(1880s)^-A neat olive street, looking north from the 7th or 8th Avenue at the time when it was a residential area. In the background, you can see the Bunker Hill and the San Gabriel Mountains. You can also see the carriage.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Circa 1881) ^^ - In a lithograph photo by E. S. Glover, it draws a full view of Los Angeles looking southwest.

Historical memo The center of the photo is the first party in the 3rd and Hill. It was built in 1883. Rev. A, J. Wells, a pastor at the time, sold it to the Central Baptist Church in 1889 for $ 40, 000. The full amount could not be paid, and it was finally settled for $ 30. 000. Later, it was sold to the Unity Church. On the left side of the church is the German Methodist Church in 4th St..

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to see the early photos of Los Angeles High School.

(Around 1880) ^^ -The view from the southwest of a house surrounding Broadway, Temple Street, and Hill Street. The tw o-story Victoria n-style houses fill the frame and located on the background hill or at the foot. Trees are scattered between the houses.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Circa 1881) ^^ - In the lithograph photo by E. S. Glover, the right frame of Los Angeles saw southwest.

Historical memo Photo center is the first party in the 3rd and Hill. It was built in 1883. Rev. A, J. Wells, a pastor at the time, sold it to the Central Baptist Church in 1889 for $ 40, 000. The full amount could not be paid, and it was finally settled for $ 30. 000. Later, it was sold to the Unity Church. On the left side of the church is the German Methodist Church in 4th St..

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Los Angeles High School was one of the architectural gems of Los Angeles and was strategically placed on the top of the hill (pound cake hill). One of the lon g-standing motto of the school is "always hills, always tower, always clocks." *^

Click here to see the early photos of Los Angeles High School.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(CIRCA 1881) ^^ - Lithograph photo by E. S. Glover. Left frame of Los Angeles panoramic photo seen southeast.

(Circa 1881) ^^ - In a lithograph photo by E. S. Glover, it draws a full view of Los Angeles looking southwest.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

You can overlook the urban area, and the rural scenery in the hill area spreads in the foreground. A windmill is drawn in the front view in the center, and there is a circle of trees right on the left side. On the right is a silhouette of two peddlers on the hill. Labels are stuck on major streets such as temple streets, arameda streets, and main streets. The previous record states, "The whole view of Los Angeles seen from the back of the hill of Sisters Hospital on Sunset."

(CIRCA 1880) ^^ -A whole view overlooking Los Angeles City Park (later parsing square) from Los Angeles downtown, 5th Avenue and Grand Avenue. You can see a rectangular park surrounded by trees in the center. A path in the park can be seen between the lawn. Soil roads are lined up on both sides of the park, and you can see tw o-story houses from the first floor. Most buildings have a garden, and trees are planted nearby. There is almost no building on the flat ground.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In the 1850s, the site of Pursing Square is the La Igreesia de Nuestra Senora Leyina de Loss Angeles Church, Square, and the current Olber a-dor i-dori Puebla de Loss Angeles. It was used as a set of settlers. The surveyor in the 1850s drew this site as an individual parcel of 10 parcels, but was actually a single section of five acres. The canal distributing water from Zanha Madre (for more information about Zanha Madre), was adjacent to the water.

In 1866, the park land was dedicated as a public plaza by California and the new mayor Christivar Aguiral, and was initially named La Plaza Abaha ("Square below"). *^

Click here to see more in the early scenery of LA Plaza.

(Around 1880)^ -A clos e-up photo from the Southeast direction from the Bunker Hill (now Percing Square) from the southeast.

(Around 1883) ^^ -View of the southeast from the State State School (currently the central library). LA Park (currently Percing Square) opposite St. Paul Cathedral (lower right).

Hill and Temple Streets

(Around 1883) ^^ -In the nearby Shiki School School, a newly built St. Paul Cathedral (lower right), newly built at the current buil t-more hotel near the Los Angeles Municipal Park (now Percing Square) Is shown. The skyscraper on the right is St. Vincent College on Hill Street between 6-chome and 7-chome.

Historical memo

Before and After

In 1867, St. Vincent College (now Royola Mary Mount University) was opposite the street, and the park was unofficially named St. Vincent Park. In 1870, it was officially renamed Los Angeles Park. In 1886, it was renamed the 6th Avenue Park, and was redesigned in the "Official Park Plan" by Frederick Euton, who later became the mayor. In the early 1890s, it was renamed Central Park and was called for decades for several decades until it was named Percing Square after World War I*^.

(Around the 1880s)^ -。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 On the right is the tower of St. Paul Cathedral. The center is Central Park, later percing square.

Temple Block

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The St. Paul Ten Captain was built on Olive Street in 1883. It was sold in 1922 for the construction of a buil t-more hotel*^.

(Around 1885)^ - In the early 1880s, the whole view was seen from the south of the 5th Avenue and Olive Street. You can see Central Park (later percing square), and on the right is St. Paul Cathedral. St. Vincent College on the left. A carriage runs on an unpaved road. It is the same scenery as the previous photo, but it is a few years later (note that a telephone pole has been added along the olive street).

(Around 1888) ^^ -The view of two women walking on the promenade of Six Street Park (formerly St. Vincent Park). Currently, this is the site of Percing Square.

(Around 1890) ^^ - The view of Perching Square, which was called the 6th park park at the time. Later called Central Park, and Percing Square (after World War I).

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

The transition of the park name until it becomes a percing square is as follows:

186 6-La Plaza Abaha or "lower square"

186 7-St. Vincent Park

187 0-Los Angeles Park

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Broadway and 3rd Street

191 8-Pursing Square

(1886)^ --The view of the 6th Avenue Park (later percing square) around 1886. Looking at the olive street cathedral of St. Paul, the olive street, and the Grand Street and the State State School in the southwest corner of the 5th Avenue (Click here to see other views of the State Division School). The slope of the bunker hill can be seen on the right.

Broadway and 2nd Street

(Around 1890)^ - Look west on the 5th Avenue from Hill Street. Hazard Pavilion is on the right, 5th Avenue and olive northeast corner. The left hand is the 6th Avenue Park (now percing square). State Division School (later Los Angeles Central Library).

Historical memo

Hazard's Capacity Pavilion opened in 1887 and held all events, from citrus fair and political rally to Grand Opera House. In 1905, it was destroyed for the construction of Philharmonic Building.

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(Around 1900)^ -The view of downtown overlooking percing square to the northwest and overlooking Bunker Hill and Hollywood Hills. Later, the Buil t-More Hotel was replaced by the St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the pr e-view dormitory. This is the same view as the photo above, but it is 14 years later. A part of the ordinary school can be seen on the left of the center.

(Around 1913) ^^ - In the foreground, the Southeast view shows a part of the Sent Paul Episcopal Church, Percing Square, and part of the city's Skyline.

Click here to see more early views of Percing Square.

(Around 1882)* -The view of Nishi 6-chome with the spring street intersection as the foreground. On the right is Spring Street School. This will later become an arcade building.

Bunker Hill

(1882)^ - Look north on the main street. Downey blocks are on the left, and the Cosmopolitan Hotel (formerly Rafeyet Hotel), the second place of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce from June 15, 1874 to October 29, 1883, is followed. On the right is the Duquom Bill, Bella Union Clarendon Cent Charles Hotel, Pico Bill (the first residence of a farmer), the Grand Central Hotel, and the Baker Block (with tower).

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(Around 1882) ** -1882, one of the first seven lights installed in Los Angeles on the main streets and commercial streets. High 150 feet. The left is Baker Block and the right is Ducom Building.

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In the 15 0-foot building, three 3, 000 candle carbon arc lamps were installed. In 1882, C. L. Howland had established a small power plant for seven lamps and electricity.

In 1883, howland and his colleagues established Los Angeles Electric. **

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(C. 1882)^ -C. Ducoman Golden store, S. Playger dry shop, furniture store at Main Street 204 (Main Street 304 after 1890).

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

(1886)^ -The front of the C. Ducoman hardware store in the main street 204 (relocated to the main street 304 N. after 1890).

Hill and 3rd Street

(1882)^ - The view of the parade of the main street (north direction). Later, a Civic Center Plaza on the right corner and a city hall on the left corner.

Click here to see more early scenery of the historic main street 300 blocks.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Historical memo

The Kafgenga Pass is a pass connecting the Los Angeles basin and the Sanfernando Valley, and is the lowest pass in the mountains. Battle of the Cuffenga Pass in 1831 (fighting the local settlers, the Governor of Mexico, and their subordinates, two dead), the battle of Providencia in 1845 or the Battle of the Second Cuffenga Pass (whether to withdraw from Mexico) It was the stage of two major battles, the battle of local residents).

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

Click here to see more about the first scenery of San Fernando Valley.

(1882) ^ - The view on the top of the Cuffenga Pass. There is a bar called Kafunga Tabang between the tall eucalyptus trees.

Historical note#*#Cafeunga is the Spanish name of Tongba Kawenna Village, which means a mountain location.

Angels Flight and the 3rd Street Tunnel

(n. d.)^ - The view of Cowenga Taban (also known as Eight Mile House) near the top of the Cowenga Pass.

(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

In the 1870s, a primitive hotel (called Eight Mile House) was built in the eucalyptus tree in the valley.

(Early view of Cahuenga Pass. The road skirts through cultivated fields.

Historical Notes

Until 1914, film director Cecil B. DeMille rented a log cabin on the pass as his home. He rode horseback to his studio each day, a revolver at his hip.

Before and After

Click here to see more early views of Cahuenga Pass.

(circa 1878)^^ - Looking east to the intersection of Second and Fort Streets (later Broadway). In the background, on the east side of Main Street, just south of Second Street, is St. Viviana's Cathedral.

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Victor Heights

(circa 1880)^^ - Street view looking down the southeast corner of Second and Fort Streets (later Broadway). A horse-drawn carriage is parked in the street to the right of the Gothic First Presbyterian Church and its imposing bell tower. Further to the right, a person is standing in the dirt road. A topiary garden, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, is across the street to the left. Behind the church on the right is the city's first Jewish synagogue, B'nai B'rith Temple. To the right of the synagogue is what would later become the Third Los Angeles City Hall (1888-1928).

Historical memo

(1880s)^-Looking north of Main Street near 3rd Street. There is a large cactus in front of the "Roundhouse" and a nursery sign on the left. St. Viviana's Cathedral is visible in the background on the right.

Historical notes: The Roundhouse was once a popular beer hall and later became Los Angeles' first nursery school.

(circa 1884)^-On Main Street, just north of 3rd Street. Workers lay double rails for a horse-drawn railroad car. St. Viviana's Cathedral is visible in the background.

(1884)^ -The main street is facing the second street in the north, and you can see the St. Viviana Cathedral on your right. You can see the carriage railway heading south on the main street.

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(Around 1850)^** Photos of sketches indicating the La Plaza area and Hypervolic area of 1850. In the upper left is the Old Plaza Church. The map is based on the 1849 ORD survey.

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(1885) ^^ - Main Street Appearance of St. Viviana Cathedral on 200-248. A man standing near a carriage parked on an unpaved road in front of the church.

Historical memo

In 1963, St. Viviana Cathedral was designated as Los Angeles History No. 17.

Click here to see the early photos of St. Bi Biana Cathedral.

Historical memo

Winston Street is located between 4th and 5th. Click here to see the early photos of the main street and Winston Street.

(Around 1880)^ -J. P. One Vig stands outside the feed shop at the main street 408. The signboards on the sidewalk include barley, dried grass, auto wheat dried grass, alpha, firewood, charcoal, and bran.

Historical memo

The St. Viviana Cathedral (often called St. Vibiana) opened in 1876 as a cathedral of the Monterley Los Angeles parish, and has been a Los Angeles official cathedral for over 100 years.

Elim Poon - Journalist, Creative Writer

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