Old and new street signs, Los Angeles, 1960

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Title Old and new street signs, Los Angeles, 1960

Description 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.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1960-12-28

Subject Los Angeles -- City -- Streets -- Signs & Repair (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway & Olympic Boulevard (roadways), California (states), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), May Company (manmade features), USA (countries)

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)

Repository Email uscdl@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

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Title Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

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