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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
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Grand Pre Boulevard South street sign and street light, 1959
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Grand Pre Boulevard South street sign and street light, 1959
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Photograph of a close-up of Grand Pre Boulevard South street sign and street light. "A Los Angeles street by any other name might not be so hard to find. -- Just ask a letter carrier where Walnut is. -- There are 36 Walnuts in various combinations with street, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive, way, place, road, circle and path according to Edmund G. Passler, head of the city's street name division. His duty is to prevent any more duplications creeping in when new subdivisions are filed. -- There are also 36 Washingtons, 28 Prospects, 27 Maples, 17 Ramonas and 26 Olives to say nothing of the various Oranges such as Orange circle, Orange cove, Orangecrest, Orangedale, Orangethorpe, grove, knoll, park, tree and wood. -- There are also some fancy names on the city maps such as Tigertail road, Deerbrook lane, Silver Bow, Golden Bough drive, Pleasure way, Plenty street, Happy lane and Honeymoon street. -- Substitution -- Passler has a collection of names to substitute when subdivision names fail to meet specifications that they be easy to spell, to pronounce and don't sound like another one. -- The names were taken off of Pull[...] [...] aviation parts catalogs, missiles [...] fish and plants and people[...] [...] Playa Del Rey".... -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, 16 February 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Asset Metadata
Title
Grand Pre Boulevard South street sign and street light, 1959
Subject
Los Angeles -- City -- Streets -- Signs & Repair
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Grand Pre Boulevard S
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Geocoordinate
-118.16521,34.08009 (
point
), -118.39825,33.74214 (
point
), -118.47776,34.32215 (
point
), -118.50695,34.02659 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1959-02-16
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
1959-02-16
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-m3024
Identifier
3-1275-02805-9245 (
barcode
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-004 (
filename
), examiner-m4404 (
legacy collection record id
), examiner-c44-90283 (
legacy record id
), examiner-m3024 (
legacy record id
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-004 (
original filename
), Subjects 320 (
print box
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
90283
Unique identifier
UC11732931
Legacy Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-004.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
6.2 in × 5.0 in at 300dpi
15.9 cm × 12.8 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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