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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
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Old and new street signs, Los Angeles, 1960
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Old and new street signs, Los Angeles, 1960
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Photograph of signage at the corner of Olympic Boulevard and South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. The May Company can be seen in the distance, and a city parking enforcer is riding to the left of the parked car. "Arrow points out the difference in old, new street signs -- old one (lower) tends to fade into the background. New one shows clearly. -- Now you can see where you are! -- L.A. Gets new street signs -- One of the most frustrating experiences for the urban motorist is driving blocks beyond the street where he wants to turn. -- Yet this happens thousands of times daily in cities the size of Los Angeles because corner street signs can be read by most drivers from only a short distance. -- The Los Angeles City Traffic Department is correcting the situation with [...] [...]ers, made up of three-foot-high white plastic letters and attached to the traffic lane surface with a mastic, now are in use along Wilshire Boulevard from Normandie Avenue to Wilton Place. -- City Traffic Manager S.S. (Sam) Taylor said his department is studying motorist reaction to the signs and their physical durability. [...] which at night, will reflect headlight beams. -- Taylor said the plastic which will last nearly 10 times longer than painted street markings, may, in the future, be used for school zone warnings and 'tear drop' arrows marking turn lanes." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 28 December 1960.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Asset Metadata
Title
Old and new street signs, Los Angeles, 1960
Subject
Los Angeles -- City -- Streets -- Signs & Repair
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Broadway & Olympic Boulevard
(roadway),
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
May Company
(manmade features),
USA
(countries)
Geocoordinate
-118.24847,34.04956 (
point
), -118.24997,34.047 (
point
), -118.25692,34.04123 (
point
), -118.25735,34.04021 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1960-12-28
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
(collection),
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
(subcollection),
University of Southern California
(contributing entity)
Date Created
1960-12-28
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
cisadmin@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu
Access Conditions
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3023
Identifier
3-1275-02805-9237 (
barcode
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-009 (
filename
), examiner-m4404 (
legacy collection record id
), examiner-c44-90282 (
legacy record id
), examiner-m3023 (
legacy record id
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-009 (
original filename
), Subjects 320 (
print box
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
90282
Unique identifier
UC11732375
Legacy Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-009.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
12.0 in × 9.7 in at 300dpi
30.6 cm × 24.6 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
Linked assets
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
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