some interesting photographs from life magazine between the years of 1949 and 1958
looking south on flower and figueroa from across sunset boulevard 1958. if you look at the lower left of the photograph, you can see the buildings on the south side of sunset between fig and grand who's demise Beaudry had posted a page ago or so about
looking west across figueroa at the start of construction of the stack interchange between the hollywood, arroyo seco, and harbor freeways 1949. once again, the sunset block between fig and grand is visible in the lower right
looking north on figueroa at rush hour traffic at the intersection of sunset boulevard 1949
looking north across 6th street of at the harbor freeway construction 1953
looking east during construction of the 101 arroyo seco parkway from figueroa 1949. the old school building is still standing and is visible on the left side of the photograph
looking east on wilshire boulevard from curson avenue 1949
