LA from the 40s

[Sloan1874]

Fantastic online photographic exhibition on the Edison website. Images go all the way up to the 90s, but the early 40s and 50s stuff is brilliant.

http://pstp-edison.com/

 

[3fingers]

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[rjb1]

Those are great photos, but don't just look at the pictures. There are some very strange captions in the section labeled "Noir". They have put together a "Noir" story using photos that are not really connected and that were taken over about a 30 year period.
The fact that this was done by an electric utility is amazing to me.
Examples:
1) "The young couple had the two rooms in front. They hadn’t been married long. The wife wasn’t used to the shabbiness of marriage yet."
2) "The husband expected to be somebody some day. He had aspirations, but he wasn’t sure which ones they were."

 

[DamianM]

Its part of the Pacific Standard time exhibition Its an awesome exhibition and really informs you about the take on architecture and the shift of the city after the war

 

[ButteMT61]

Nice Sloanie! Man, that makes me SO wish I was about 25 years older...closer to death, but life woulda been peachy keen seein' all that great stuff. I know, I know, Midnight In Paris and all, but still...