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Originally Posted by Scott Charles
Hello, LA Noirishers!
I've been trying to locate a PRE-1926 straight-down aerial photo of the area in the picture below - specifically, before Spring Street was straightened out to facilitate the building of the the new City Hall.
Does such a photo exist?
Here is a Baist map showing the area I'm trying to find:
 LINK
For comparison purposes, here is an aerial from November 29, 1933, which is after Spring Street was straightened:
 FrameFinder Flight C_2816, Frame 1
By the way, FrameFinder only goes back to 1929. Historic Aerials only goes back to 1948. |
Framefinder has just a bit earlier - 1927:
http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_image.../c-113_268.tif
It shows New High Street still complete, but Spring Street is a dead end as the city hall is well under construction and already topped out.
Here is another one:
http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_image.../c-113_268.tif
All the photos in Flight ID C-113 are dated by the site as August 1, 1927, but it would seem that date is an approximation. The two above are from a flight line west of city hall numbered below 300; the flight line east of city hall - also with Flight ID C-113 and numbered above 300 - are clearly from slightly later as New High Street has been torn up in those. Neither is as early as you're looking for, however.