Landmarks and street scenes in Hollywood and Los Angeles California circa 1950. People stand on streets of Los Angeles. A traffic light on the street with a sign reading 'Stop'. Cars and buses on the roads. Pedestrians cross streets. Red Cross flags fly from many buildings on the street. A street car or trolley passes. View of Grauman's Chinese Theater. Heavy traffic on freeway and streets of Los Angeles, as seen from street corners and point of view shots from a moving vehicle. Cars on South Grand Avenue at the Biltmore Hotel (510 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles). Smog visible in some of the scenes. View from inside descending rail car on the Los Angeles Incline Railway (Angel's Flight narrow gauge funicular railway) at 3rd and Hill Streets. Passengers on the other car pass as they ascend.
Final football match of Pacific Coast Conference is played between University of Southern California (Trojans) and Stanford University. University of Southern California beats Stanford University by 19-0. Around 95,000 people witness the match.
Magician Harry Moro performs in Los Angeles, California. Harry Moro is slid into a block of ice which is then sealed. The magician buried in the ice tomb for half an hour. Men open the block with an ax to remove him from the ice.
Man performs stunts with a 9 months old baby in Los Angeles, California. He balances baby on his hands, turns him around, holds baby's head and circles. Baby smiles and claps.
Animal trainer Melvin Koontz bathes a lion in Los Angeles, California. Melvin pours soap on the lion in cage. He then pours water on it. Lion jumps from stool and plays with Melvin in cage.
In an outbreak of hostilities between city officials and property owners, a huge gap is cut through the water pipe to Los Angeles at Jawbone Canyon in California. (It is also known as the Los Angeles Aqueduct Pipeline, or the Jawbone Siphon, stretching 233 miles from Owens Lake and the Owens Valley to Los Angeles). Engineers and officials inspect the broken water pipe that had been dynamited by angry ranchers in a land dispute.
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