View of City Hall building (200 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States) in Los Angeles circa 1950. Camera view pans down to shops and other buildings in the 200 and 100 blocks of North Main Street, Los Angeles, California. Pedestrians cross the street. A sign reads 'No Parking'. A road is lined on either side by trees. Various views of Los Angeles landmarks: A sign reads 'Hancock Park, La Brea Pits'. View of Griffith Observatory (2800 E Observatory Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90027, United States). Scenes in Chinatown and view of Grauman's Chinese Theatre (6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States) with visitors looking at movie star names in cement of sidewalk on Hollywood Walk of Fame. The photographer takes pictures. A license plate on an out-of-town vehicle, from Idaho, reads 'World Famous Potatoes' and contains a picture of a potato.
Preparation for 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. A woman sits on a chair and talks over a phone. A plate on a desk reads 'Los Angeles Olympic Organization Committee'. A sketch of a cartoon and other photographs hung on a wall. A man speaks about the facilities which would be provided in Los Angeles during the upcoming summer Olympics. He mentions about language translation and currency exchange facilities. People from 150 countries will participate. Recreational facilities like Disney Land and beaches.
View of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States) in Los Angeles, California. A view of Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Roosevelt Hotel. Grauman's Chinese Theater, now Mann's Chinese Theater (6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States), is seen. Red Car trolley and automobiles move along the road. Entrance of the Roosevelt Hotel. A sign on the entrance reads 'Hollywood Roosevelt'. People walk in front of the hotel entrance. A view of buildings in Hollywood.
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.
Hollywood, a district in the city of Los Angeles, California situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. 1940's and 1950 vehicle traffic seen from above and at street level at intersections of Hollywood and Vine and at Sunset and Vine. Landmarks seen include the Broadway Hollywood Plaza, NBC Studio, CBS Studio, Grauman's Chinese Theater (6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States) with some of the names of Hollywood celebrities and stars signed in the cement: Shirley Temple; Joe E Brown; Esther Williams; Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Preparations being made for participants and visitors to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. A Korean airliner lands. Interiors of the international airport under construction. Counters inside the airport. Luxury hotels in the city. A woman talks on telephone at the information desk. People take information from the woman. A man enters the Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau. People take information about the venue and other things at the center. A woman talks on telephone. A woman arranges pamphlets of hotels broacher. A woman answers to queries on telephone. Women compile addresses of homes that will be available for stay. A woman talks on phone. Houses in the city. A yacht at dock. People inside the yacht.
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