Crowded South Broadway street shopping district of Los Angeles California in 1950. Intersection of 7th Street and S. Broadway Los Angeles. American Red Cross flags hang from many buildings and a sign "Give more than before" as part of a blood drive. Desmonds department store sign visible in distance on South Broadway. Traffic light on the street. Pedestrians crossing the street. Vehicular traffic of cars, trucks and streetcar trolleys on the street. Passengers step down from a streetcar at a stop. It is number 59 with a sign that reads, in part, South San Pedro. View of shops on S Broadway including Bullocks Department Store on the corner of 7th Street and Broadway, Le Roys at 633 South Broadway, Harris & Frank's. A policeman stands at the intersection and directs traffic. Near ground level view of legs and feet of pedestrians with late 1940s and early 1950's mens and womens fashions. 1940s and 1950 truck, bus, and car automobile traffic clogs streets and highways of Los Angeles. Clothes hanging in front of residential garden apartments. Two babies standing in doorway of ground floor apartment, and a young boy sitting on the building steps.
Automobiles passing the Angel's Flight funicular at 3rd and Hill Streets. The funicular cars pass one another. Countless numbers of cars closely packed into outdoor parking lot. People fill benches and crowds of pedestrians walk in a park. Car pulls up to drive-in restaurant and driver hands something to man who comes to the car from inside the restaurant. Views of concrete flood channels built by Corps of Engineers for Los Angeles river. Angel's Filght funicular car ascending hill. Car driving down the hill.
The Hollywood Vedanta Temple (1946 Vedanta Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90068, United States) founded by the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Dome of the building in view. Li Po Chinese restaurant in the plaza of New Chinatown in Los Angeles. A 1950 Ford Coupe. Unbroken stream of automobiles traps pedestrians trying to cross. Another road lined with Palm trees and filled with moving automobiles. Scene of accident involving a streetcar or trolley, and a van.
United States former President Calvin Coolidge dedicates a dam named in his honor on the Native American Indian San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona. View of the dam and Gila river. Mountains in the background. Many people on the dam. Lunch tables arranged on the dam. President Coolidge eats lunch on top of structure across Gila River. President Coolidge smokes a peace pipe with the Native American Indian tribal people. Leaders of the Pima and Apache Indian tribes are seen.
Aviatrix Elinor Smith escapes a plane crash in Mineola, New York. Her plane crashes in height flight trial. Elinor Smith is unhurt. A plane in the background. A man stands near her. Several men gathered around her. A man smokes. Elinor Smith wears her sun glasses.
Aerial view of Bagnell Dam in Missouri. The dam is built over Osage River. Ozark Mountains in view. Dam near completion. Huge electric development project. A post office, theater and a restaurant.
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