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Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm
For a 1916 poster it's remarkable how much more recent the "typical one-story home" looks, as if it were a 1950s stucco tract house.
It's interesting how some districts like Palms and Hollywood were Dry as independent communities, then became Wet on being annexed to the City of L.A., and then went Dry again with the advent of national Prohibition.
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In 1916, the year of the image, a Victorian/Queen Anne style home may have struck the wrong cord with the majority of prospective working class voters in the South Central District. Craftsman - Bungalow style was probably chic. No reason to depict multi-story structures since there probably weren't too many in rural South Central, and apartment dwellers were unlikely voters for going dry. (Unfairly or not) low rent apartment dwellers were probably stereotyped as transient riffraff unionists - who
favored free-flowing libations.
(How astute were 1916 temperance propagandists?
Could that chimney have been deliberately shaped like a beer/booze bottle neck? Choose a scary skull or the security and comfort of a nice home with a chimney - to burn garbage?
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1911 - "Main Street" Gardena Womens Christian Temperance Union "watering" hole?
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CE3K9SYFX7.jpg
From where did most of LA Sportsmen obtain their ammo?
1930 - Tufts-Lyon Arms Co. (514 W 6th and 611 S Olive)
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...J3PYX9BVKC.jpg
Oviatt Bldg and neighbor, Tufts-Lyon (Source indicates '30s, cars may suggest earlier)
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics19/00019153.jpg