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Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm
If this is looking northwards from Sixth and Main in about 1900, shouldn't we see the Pershing building on the SE corner of Fifth and Main? That is, unless that actually is it slightly to the right of center near the bottom of the frame. Even allowing for that, though, wasn't South Main a lot more developed, in 1900, than appears to be the case here?
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Here's the photo again:
I'm going to stick my neck out and say this photo dates to 1882-1886. We're not only missing the Pershing Hotel/Charnock Block (1889) at Main & 5th, we're also missing the Hotel Alcazar (1888) on the NE corner of Main & Winston and the Hotel Westminster (1887) on the NE corner Main & 4th.
I'm pretty sure that the red circle marks the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church at 2nd and Fort/Broadway, the cornerstone for which was laid in February 1882 (
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=2). And there's no City Hall (1888) tower just south of the church yet, either (
http://losangelespast.blogspot.com/2...neties-la.html).
The cross-street in the foreground is definitely 5th. The three houses in the lower left corner of the photo correspond to those marked on the 1888 Sanborn Map below (in the photo, the building on the east side of Main with the covered sidewalk is at the SE corner of Main and Winston):
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