y-K ./ ^^^\ "oV^-^jV ^/"^X ^N^^,' '^^'"''^^- %"^VV^V , SUPPLEMENT TO 'ICE Zu \-^ENTS Copyright. 1911 by J.E.Scott WESTERN INSURANCE NEWS Copyright. /> HERMAN W. HELLMAN BUILDING Towering right stories into the air, the Herman W I lellman building, complete in every detail, is a thoroughly modern steel frame structure. The upper photographs show the modest cottage home of Mr. Hellman. years ago, on the site at Fourth and Main streets. Later the temporary one story business blocks were erected. The building was erected in 1903 and has never had a vacant room. It is the finest type of business building which American architecture has produced. LOS ANGELES The Old and The New Issued as a Supplement to the Western Insurance News Copyright, igil, hy J. E. Scott. All rights reserved. The contents of this book are protected by copyright and must not be reproduced without permission of the holders of the copyright. 2 Los Angeles, the Old and the New l'i:h^=^:l:AV Cf'tyighl, iQlt. hy J. E. Scoit. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The object of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, is. stated succinctly, the promotion of Los Angeles and South- ern California. The Chamber was organized in 1888. and the first quarters were in the second story of the building shown above, and located on Main street between First and Second. The Chamber now occupies its own building on South Broadway, between First and Second, moving into this building, where it maintains its permanent exhibit in 1905 ^ Los Angeles, the Old and the New Q Los Angeles, the Old and the New Such a pictorial exhibit as has been prepared for the Chamber of Commerce requires but the briefest foreword. No volume of words, indeed, could present such convincing demonstration of won- derful progress as do the photographs contained in this book. The history of Los Angeles, brief as it is, is typical of American energy and the spirit of the West. In the building of a cosmopoli- tan city in this most favored land, extraordinary opportunities presented themselves and extraordinary oppor- tunities still remain. Thirty-five years ago there were only three business blocks of any preten- sions in Los Angeles. These were the Downey Block (two stories), built in 1871, the Temple Block (three stories), built in 1872 and the Baker Block (four stories), built in 1876. It is only a little over forty years since the first railway was started (Los Angeles to San Pedro, 1869), and the first bank opened (1868). It is only about twenty-five years ago since the Nadeau Hotel was the largest and finest struc- ture in the city, and its location at First and Spring streets was considered then too far from the business center (too far south) for hotel purposes. In 1870 the population was 5,728. With the coming of the Southern Pacific in 1 876, the great advance in population commenced, so that the census of 1880 showed a population of 1 1 ,093. In the decade from 1880 to 1890 the Santa Fe was completed and the population increased nearly 500 per cent, 50,395 in 1890. By 1900 the population had again doubled (official census 102,479), and the census of 1910 revealed the fact that the city had increased over 211 per cent since 1900, the census figures standing at 319,198. No more amazing document of the amazing growth of the city — the start- ling changes of the last quarter century — could have been devised than the comparative photographs contained herein. The title, " Los Angeles, the Old and the New " gives an index to its contents. We are confident that no such impressive or unique illustration of the growth of any American city has ever before been published. Seeing is believing. Photographs tell more than words. And this book will in itself be a standing reply to the thousands of questions as to the stability of the development of Los Angeles. A Los Angeles, tJie Old diitl the New Population Compiled by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Los Angeles Year City County 1860 3,700 4.000 1870 5.728 6.200 1880 11.093 20.000 1890 50.395 101.454 1897 93,786 150.000 1898 95,000 160.000 1899 100,000 165.000 1900 102,479 170.298 1901 117,000 195,000 1902 125,000 210,000 1903 136,000 230,000 1904 175,000 275,000 1905 201.000 305,000 1906 240.000 350,000 1907 263.782 400,000 1908 295.687 425,000 1909 307.322 460,000 1910 319.198 504,131 1911 (est.) 360.000 570,000 Los Angeles, the Old and the New WfjpWB^^'- ^^^^■^HZ!U^St . ■* ~-T^^3|^ft^v^5^^H ;- ^^ ^— tf:-*r^Cj^ 3^ ;^2^^^Sijfaf5^3!5' "^00^^^^^ iiir^^-v"„y o^.-r^ff«*ipi -.... -^ ■"^m ].r:mmt^- Cofyright, IQfO, by J. Nurs/iurgh. Jr. PANORAMA FROM NORTH HILL STREET Thirty-one years elapsed between the photograph at the top and the photograph at the bottom, taken from the same spot, on a hill north of First Street. In the upper photograph, Broadway, now the best retail street of the city, runs from the white fence in the lower left hand corner, thence diagonally across the view. Below, the Chamber of Commerce building, the City Hall tower and the new California building mark the same thoroughfare. Los Angeles, the Old and Ike jS'ew The Progress of Los Angeles Compiled by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Post Office Business Bank Clearings Building Permits 1885 $46,606 42 No. Valuation 1889 107.530 09 $36,873,242 1890 97.754 27 36.019.721 737 $ 1.194.939 1891 108.806.46 37.096,126 656 1,306,130 1892 129.065.93 39.529.902 878 1 ,890.005 1893 144.831.44 45.240.725 1.312 1.666.080 1894 157.023.96 44,669.100 1.785 2.324.035 1895 177.911 04 57.046,832 2.462 4.930,473 1896 186.103 80 61,356,141 2.304 2.742,632 1897 200.941 03 59.323,916 2.004 2.479.515 1898 216.604 37 72.229.036 1.623 2,283.005 1899 226.803 37 86.341.616 1.710 2.245,789 1900 258.047 28 113.766.378 1.922 2.517.966 1901 312.524 00 145.170.809 2.730 4.381.855 1902 399.617 56 245.516.094 4.863 9.612.331 1903 497.531 06 307.316.530 6,395 13.046.338 1904 600.444 81 345.343.956 7.064 13.409,062 1905 719,023 13 479.985.298 9.543 15,482,067 1906 850.579 01 578.635.517 9.072 18.158.497 1907 1.039.547 51 581.870.627 7.584 13,275.943 1908 1.089.493 04 505.588,756 7.373 9.934.298 1909 1.276.664.07 673,165,728 8.571 13.260.713 1910 1.476.941.52 i 811.377.487 10.738 21,684,100 Los Angeles, the Old and the New CopyriEkt. IQIO hy J. U,„ ihur ah . Jr. PANORAMA NORTH OF THIRD STREET From the present site of Elks Hall, looking northeast. The upper photograph was taken in 1888. The street at the right is Third Street and the Church at the right has been replaced by the Exchange building. These two panora- mas are taken from identically the -=ame spot. 8 Los Angeles, the Old and the New The Los Angeles Aqueduct Statement by the Chamber of Commerce The Greatest Municipal Undertaking in the World Will bring pure mountain water a distance of 250 miles in sufficient quantity to supply a city of 2,000,000 inhabitants. h is a gravity system throughout, no pumping plants being required. It will deliver 258,000,000 gallons (net) every 24 hours into reservoirs located nearly 1000 feet above the city. It consists of 98 miles covered concrete conduit. 40 miles uncovered, 21 miles of open canal, 1 2 miles of inverted syphons, 43 miles of tunnels 10 to 13 feet in diameter, 4 reservoirs along the line holding 3 months' supply. Bonds issued for $23,000,000. Total cost will be safely under Chief Engineer Mulholland's estimates. In addition, the water power will be utilized in producing 120,000 H. P. peak load, of electrical energy, the sale of which will take care of the bonds and interest of both the aqueduct and the electric plant. Summer Climate Los Angeles has long been famous for its mild winter climate, but only recently have tourists awakened to the fact that the sum- mer climate is as pleasant for the season as can be found in the world. Not only are the people from east of the Rocky Mountains awakening to this, but tens of thousands of people from Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Northern Mexico make Los Angeles and the adjoining beaches their summer Mecca, coming to escape the high temperature of their homes. Since the weather bureau's station was established in Los Angeles, reliable records of temperature are available. Mean temperatures for the months (average of thirty-three years) are as follows: Month Mean 33 years January 54 degrees February 55 March 57 April 60 May 62 June 66 July 70 " August 71 September 70 October 65 November 60 December 56 " The summer climate is not enervating, and the thermometer occasionally rises to 90 to 95 degrees, but on account of the absence of humidity in the atmosphere, this is no more noticeable than a temperature of 80 degrees in the humid climates of the East. Los Angeles, the Old and the New Cofyright. IQIO by J. H-rshuTgh. Jr. PANORAMA SOUTH OF THIRD STREET From the present site of Elks Hall, looking east. Third Street is at the left. The church in the upper photograph marks the line of Broadway, now lined with business blocks, in a section which contains some of the choicest property in Los Angeles. The change from 1888 to 1911. 10 Los xingcles, the Old and the Xcw Manufacturing Census Bureau Statistics Per cent of increase —Census— 1904 1909. 1904. to 1909. Number of establishments 1,325 814 63 Capital invested $59,518,000 $28,181,000 111 Cost of materials used 98.9 1 3.000 1 8.689.000 1 08 Salaries and wages 16.500.000 9.085,000 82 Miscellaneous expenses 5.649.000 2.74 1 .000 1 06 Value of products 68.586,000 34.814.000 97 Value added by manufacture (products less cost of materials) 29.673.000 16.125.000 84 Employes — Number of salaried officials and clerks.. . . 3.367 2,004 68 Average number of wage earners em- ployed during the year 17.327 10.424 66 Cheap Oil P\iel and Electric Power Did It Reminders About Los Angeles Compiled by the Chainber of Commerce AREA 101 .25 square miles; average elevation, 270 feet; population, est. 360.000; assessed valu- ation, city. $383,078,890. 1911. TAX RATE 1911 City. $1.48; County, $1.07. BUILDING PERMITS For the year 1910. 10.738; cost, $2 1,684, 100. Increase over 1909 nearly 64 per cent. BANKS Commercial and Savings, 40; total capital and surplus, $23, 672,429; deposits, $138,218.- 417. Clearances for the year 1910, $81 1,377.- 487.47. an increase of 20 per cent over last year. Banks usually carry about 40 per cent reserve. COST OF LIVING Same as in the Middle West. CHURCHES All denominations, 225. SCHOOLS Public school buildings, including State Normal, 117; teachers employed, 1,440; school children: census, 53.954; enrolled. 50.000; miscellaneous private schools and colleges. 40. The Polytechnic High School is equal to the best in the United States. LIBRARY Volumes in Public Library, 137,184; home circulation, 773,572; circulation per volume, 5.6 (third in U. S.). Besides, there are 23 other libraries in the city, with 103,643 volumes. HARBOR City to spend $3,000,000 at once and $7,000,000 in future to develop San Pedro harbor. United States has already spent upwards of $4,000,000. Ample water for the Pacific Ocean commerce. CAR SERVICE THE BEST electric system, urban and {Conlinucd on page 12) Los Angeles, the Old and the New 11 f . j;^^SJ^ Copyright. IQIQ by J. HvnbuTgh.Jr. FEDERAL BUILDING Intersection of Spring, Main and Temple Streets. The Downey block, shown above, was for many years one of the two best business blocks in Los Angeles, and was the original home of many of the leading mercantile houses of today. It was torn down several years ago and in its place was erected the Federal building, on land donated to the Government. A steel frame structure, faced with granite and Arizona red sandstone, and costing over $1,000,000. 12 Lou Angeles, the Old and the New (Continued from page 10) interurban, in the world, and building in every direction. Street cars all electric. City lines, 345 miles of track; interurban lines, 840 miles; number of men employed in and around the city. 7,500. STEAM RAILWAYS ENTERING THE CITY Southern Pacific System; Santa Fe System; San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Rail- road. Number of men employed residing in city and vicinity, 6,850. Parks Public parks, 22; acreage, 3,7801/2: one of over 3,000 acres, being the largest municipal park in the world. LIGHT AND POWER Electric companies, 3; gas, 3; electricity, 2c to 7c per kilowatt hour; gas, 80c per 1 ,000 feet. TELEPHONES Telephone companies, 2; subscribers, 85,000. This is equivalent to one telephone for every four men, women and children in the city, or one for almost every family, placing Los Angeles, in this respect, far ahead of all other cities in the World. THEATERS Theaters, 16; amusement parks, 2; moving picture shows, 61. HOTELS Best hotel accommodations in the country. Family hotels and lodging houses in all quarters of the city. Can take care of over 100,000 people. FIRE PROTECTION Steam engines, 27; chemical engines, 2; hook and ladder, 4; hose wagon and combina- tion chemicals, 33; combination auto hose and chemical, 2; 1 tower wagon; hydrants, 2,710; 340 full paid firemen; i chief auto; 5 chief wagons. WATER Abundant supply; owned by the city; 9c per 1,000 gallons. FUEL Petroleum, distillate, gas, coal, wood. COST Gas, 80c per 1.000 feet. Wood, $8 to $10 per cord. Petroleum, 90c per barrel. HOW WE GROW Population, 1890, 50.395; 1900. 102,479; 1910, 319,198: postoffice receipts, 1910, $1,476.941 ; increase of 16 per cent over 1909. Los Angeles leads all cities of the country in increase of postoffice business and population. FIGURES FOR 1909-10 Showing Some of the Products of the Territory Surrounding Los Angeles: Citrus fruits. 35.000 carloads; vegetables. — carloads: Celery. 2,000; cabbage, 500; tomatoes. 200; potatoes, 1,000; onions, 400; cauliflower, 600; lettuce. 50; sweet potatoes, 50; assorted, 500; nuts, 9,000 tons; canta- loupes, 1.625 carloads; raisins and dried fruits. 6.000 tons; eggs, 125,000 cases; flour, 450.000 barrels; canned goods. 750,000 cases; olives, pickled. 1.000,000 gallons; olive oil, 500,000 gallons: beet sugar 200,000.000 pounds: wine and brandy, 3,500.000 gallons; beer, 300.000 barrels; petroleum. 74.000.000 barrels; beans, 47,000 tons; cotton, 8.000 bales; barley, 45,000 tons. Total valuation, including manufactured products, $202,160,- 000. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 13 LOS ANGELES COUNTY COURT HOUSE The original courthouse of Los Angeles county is shown in the upper photograph. When the growth of the '80s set in, this building was found inadequate. The county courts and offices are now housed in the two buildings shown in the lower photograph. Los Angeles county, as far as known, was the first county to abandon the old style of buildings for county purposes and erect a modern steel-frame skyscraper for office purposes u Los Angeles, the Old and the New Copsnghl, IQIO, hy J. lloribursh. .Ir. Cnuritiy of Sunitt .\taejxine. FIFTH AND OLIVE STREETS Northeast cnrn:r. Hazard's Pavilion shown in the upper photograph, was for many years the chief auditorium m Los Angeles. In 1904 it was torn down and was replaced by The Auditorium, shown below. A splendid re- inforced concrete structure Los Angeles, the Old and the New 15 THE CALIFORNIA CLUB The California Club, one of the foremost social organizations of the west, was organized in 1887 and was incorporated in 1888. It first occupied a suite of rooms on North Broadway, over the Tally-Ho stables, shown in the upper photograph. In 1903, while occupying the top floor of the Wilcox block, the new club house was finished, and the Club moved in to what is one of the finest club buildings in the country. The club is located at Fifth and Hill Streets, opposite Central Park. Its membership is limited to six hundred. Copyright. /Of/, hy J. E. Scutt. 10 Los Angeles, the Old and Ihc \eio ELKS LODGE 99 AND CLUB HOUSE Elks Lodge No. 99 was organized in 1888 and occupied various lodge rooms until 1909, when the lodge occupied the magnificent quarters shown on this page. There arc 1400 members. The club and lodge rooms are approached by a cable train, and command a wide panorama of the business section. Built of re-inforccd concrete. LOOKING I ROM HILL S rRELT Los Angeles, the Old and the New 17 Ctfyriehl, lOII. by J. E. Sicll. UNION LEAGUE CLUB Second and Hill Streets, northeast corner. The Union League is the foremost Republican organization in the South. The Club has just completed the erection of its own home. The building is of reinforced concrete, and is one of the handsome club and business structures of the city. Top photograph shows building formerly on site. 18 Los Angeles, the Old and the Neio Y. W. C. A. 251-255 SOUTH HILL STREET saasBsatmmassmm i — isi lEi iSMii isi IB l!l iAi cliMsii Hi if S •V'SPI ViB I I isi j^m i"i IB| (>./jrrj;^;i. /Q/.' HILL STREET NEAR THIRD The upper photograph shows the residence which formerly stood on the site of the present Y. W. C. A. building site. Organized in 1893. and incor- porated in 1894. the young Women's Christian Association lias had a splendid work to perform and has executed it. The present building was formally opened in 1908. It is entirely devoted to the work of the Association, which besides maintains affiliated organizations. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 19 C-'r>'<>:hl. IQII, by J. E. SfOlt YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Organized first in 1882, the Young Men's Christian Association occupied rented rooms until the quarters shown above, on West Second street were secured. These were occupied until 1887, when the Association occupied its own building on Broadway. This was sold in 1903, and the Association again rented until 1907, when it took possession of its own steel frame club house on South Hope street, shown below. There is now being added two additional stories to this building. The membership exceeds 5400. 20 Los Anodes, the Old and the Netc Copyriehi, IQtl, by J. E. SaB888eilBB f The California Building may be said to be the creation of the brain of C. Wesley Roberts, the manager, who arranged all details from the organization of the Broadway Investment Company, capital $600,000 which owns the building, down to the completion of the structure. Architect^ and builders declare that the construc- tion of this building involved some of the finest engineering problems which have arisen in reinforced concrete construction. When completed this building will be ideal for its purpose. The interior finish is to be in marble and tiling, with metal trim and mahogany finish. There are three hydraulic elevators, and pipe shafts give ample ventilation. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 25 i 1 ^^T^j.S^f^^^^HDj^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ V. ...^. --..^^ , Y*-- ■ "1™ -^ !^;-^ _^^ jWJ||,^SPR ^Bv^ ■s^ t^ ^^J 7°°"r , L_- "f^^W-. ■•■^ 1 fe^ '' **'" messam ^ -IbHHB^ -'-^ ^^^ gjBI- ^f^y^- ■ '•'J^'^S L. l; ■-''" Copyrishi, IQII , h ■/■ ^- ■ LOOKING ALONG SECOND STREET The view at the top was taken about 1880. The church in the center of the upper photograph is the Presbyterian Church at Second and Broadway. At the left is the Cathedral on Main Street. In the lower photograph the building at the extreme right is the California. Next at the corner is the Sun drug store, where the Presbyterian church stood. The Cathedral is hidden by the massive Higgins building. 26 Los Angeles, the Old and the New C'-ryiEht. IQIO h\' J. Il"r5/>urj;h Jr. B) I'lrmission of Sunsft M^eaxii MAIN AND FOURTH STREETS Northwest Corner. For years this corner was occupied by the residence of Colonel James Howard, shown in the upper photograph. In 1896 the old structure was torn away, and the site is now occupied by the Hotel Van Nuys a thoroughly modern bLilding. and one of the famous hot -Is of the West. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 27 Coryriglil. JQIO. by J. Hunhurgh. J'. FOURTH STREET LOOKING WEST FROM MAIN Twenty-four years elapsed between the time of taking these photographs and property values increased about fifteen fold, A most striking exhibit of city growth. THE STORY OF THE GROWTH OF THE PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA PICTORIALLY PRESENTED FIRST HOME OFFICE 1009 Second St., Sacramento. AbinJ,.,,, J Oct. 8,1881. Assets, about $150,000. Insurance in Force $7,000,000. THIRD HOME OFFICE. Third and Hill Sts.. Los Angeles. Vacated SECOND HOME OFFICE. 508 Montgomery St.. San Nov. 30. 1908. Assets, about $16,000,000. Francisco. Destroyed bv fire April 18. 1906. AsseU, Insurance in Force $104,000,000 about $1 1.370.000. Insurance in Force $96,000,000 PRESENT HOMI I ..nd Olive Sts.. Los Angeles. Assets. (Aug. 31. 191 1) $2l.45-t 786. 47. Insurance in Force $123,098,458. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 29 Cofyrighl. TQOfy by Graphic Pubiishitig Company CENTRAL PARK AND SKYLINE. Two photographs taken from the northwest corner of Central Park looking southwest, but an interval of about thirty years intervening. The business district of the city has surrounded this park in the interval. 30 Lo.9 Angeles, the Old and the Nen ■w Cutyrisht. ion. h\ J. /•;. ,v, ', FOURTH AND MAIN STREETS Southwest comer. The upper engraving is a process print of the residence of I. W. Hellman, which was one of the show residence places in Los Angeles twenty years ago, and was moved away in 1905. Today the land is occu- pied by the I. W. Hellman building, the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank occupying the comer building. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 31 Curyright. IQIO, hy J. Hi.nbuT^h. Jr. FOURTH AND HILL STREETS Southwest corner. The Mans- field and Hewitt cottages were for years a landmark on this corner. Replaced about three years ago by the Wright & Callender building shown be- low, a thoroughly modern steel frame structure. 32 Los Angeles, the Old and the New 1889 S 1911 Not less remarkable than the growth of Los Angeles is the progress made by the Security Savings Bank since it opened for business in a little store room on North Main Street in February. 1889. In that year the city had a population of about 48.000 and the bank was doing business on a capitalization of $75,000. In the period in which the population of the city has grown to more than 320.000. the Security has attained the proud position of being not only the oldest but the largest savings bank in the entire Southwest, with capital and reserve amounting to $2,000,000.00 and resources aggregating $32,500,000.00. At the end of its first year the bank had 1053 depositors. In September. 1911. th> number had become more than 65.000 open accounts. From the little Main Street room, growing business compelled the removal to larger quarters, first at the corner of Main and Second Streets Firsl Home, Secur- ily Saoinss Bank, Main Street. and then to Spring 9nd Fourth and. finally, to the great Security building. at the cornerofSpr'ngand Fifth streets. In all its history, the Security Savings Bank has bten under prac- tically the same management. President Joseph F. Sartori was one of th» organizers and was the first cashier. Vice- President M. S. Hellman was one of the original directors. Cashier W. D. Longyear has been with the bank twenty- one years and other officers have to their credit long terms of service. Vice-President John E. Plater was president of the Los Angeles Savings Bank at the time that institution was absorbed by the Security, and Vice-President Chas. H. Toll joined the Security official staff when the Southern California Savings Bank, of which he was cashier, was pur- chased by and merged with the Security. Second Home, Security Sacin^s Bank. Main and Second Streets. iiSfl ■ iir HI I OFFICERS J. F. SARTORI. President M. S. HELLMAN. ViccPres. JOHN E. PLATER. Vicc-Prcs. CHAS. H. TOLL. Vicc-Pres. W. D. LONGYEAR. Cashr. Sc Secy. T. Q. HALL. Asst. Cashier C. W. WILSON. Asst. Cashier R. B. I lARDACRE. Asst. Cashier W. M. CASWELL. Asst. Secretary J. H. GRIFFIN. Asst Secretary W. A. ELLIS. Asst. Secretary DIRECTORS J. F. SARTORI MALJRICE S. HELLMAN JOHN E. PLATER CHAS. H. TOLL W. D. LONGYEAR J. H. SHANKLAND H. W. O'MELVENY T. E. NEWLIN J. A. GRAVES W. L. GRAVES W. D. WOOLWINE W. H. HOLLIDAY WM. H. ALLEN. JR. HENDERSON HAYWARD Third Home Security Sacings Bank, spring and 4th Sts. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 33 Copyright. IQOb. hv Graphic Puhthlitns Companv SECURITY BUILDING Fifth and Spring streets, southeast corner. On the previous page will be found the history of the Security Savings Bank. This institution now has the finest banking quarters in the West, in the ground floor of the Security building, shown be :w. Prior to the time that this building was erected, in 1906. the corner was used for saloon purposes. The upper photDgraph shows the appearance of the corner in the old saloon days The building is 120 by 160 feet in size, and is a splendid sample of steel frame construction. The banking house and safe deposit vaults below are among the show places of the city m^ iiiUUlll!! liniiiiill IE 3a iq 33 S3 iiiiii 34 Los Ana:des. the Old and the New Coryrialil, IQIl, by J. E. TITLE INSURANCE BUILDING Spring and Fifth streets, northeast corner. This corner was for years occupied by the structure shown in the upper photograph. There is now being erected in its stead, the building shown in the lower photograph, which will be ready for occupancy about January 1. 1912. It is a splendidly built structure, of the steel frame type, and has a long ell in the rear. The cost of this building will be about $1,400,000. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 35 Coryrighl. IQIO, by J. lIoTihurgh, Jr. HOTEL ALEXANDRIA Fifth and Spring streets, southwest corner. The upper photograph shows the corner as it was in 1 904. The first portion of the Hotel Alexandria was completed in 1 906, the addition in 1911, and the hotel is to be extended to Broadway with- in a year or so. The Hotel when completed, will represent the expenditure of about $8,000,000 for buildings and equipment. It is most luxuriously equipped. iiililll H MmwmmJ 36 Los Aiiffclcs. the Old and the \erc ■ uryieiit, iQlt. by J, K. i.on CARL LEONARD! Many of the largest buildings portrayed in this book are the construction work of Carl Leonardt, whose building opera- tions have reached over the Coast and the Mountain region, Hawaii and Mexico. Mr. Leonardt began contracting in Los Angeles twenty-five years ago. His original quarters arc shown above, in a barn on Crocker street. Los Angeles. About seven years ago he moved his headquarters to the reinforced concrete structures shown below, at Mill and Industrial streets. The main buildmg is 102 by 150 feet, and this warehouse is remarkable for having the longest reinforced concrete girders in the world — 102 feet. Mr. Lconardt's interests are not alone in contracting. He is engaged in cement and lime enterprises as well as oil. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 37 Copyright. IQOb, by Graphic PuhUihing Compan THIRD STREET WEST FROM MAIN The upper picture, the southwest corner of Third and Main streets, was taken a little over twenty years ago. The corner building has been replaced by the Citizens National Bank building, shown at the left in the lower photograph. The present appearance of Third street, west of Main, is shown below. 38 Los Angeles, the Old and the New SIXTH STREET, 1886 Looking west on Sixth Street from Main. The first cross street is Spring. At the left, corner of Spring, was Ralphs' grocery store, a landmark in those days. The white fence marks the second intersecting street. Broadway. CnfiTtght, iQot). h\ l.T^ithii Puhlishinz Company. Copyright, /g/0. hy J- ilorihurgh, Jr. SIXTH STREET. 1903 First transformation. The buildmg up the street was the first four-story structure erected, and the occupants advertised that they were over the line from high rents. Juos Angeles, the Old and the New 39 SIXTH STREET, 1906 Third Transformation. Note the changes that have come about in the years between 1903, shown at the bottom of the previous page. SIXTH STREET, 1911 Fourth transformation. The street is now nearly an unbroken line of skyscrapers. 40 Los Angeles, the Old and the New PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY SYSTEM Los Angeles, the Old and the New 41 Ci'ryrighi. IQIO, hy J. Horsburgh, Jr. PACIFIC ELECTRIC BUILDING AND DEPOT Sixth and Main streets, southeast corner. The upper photograph shows the residence of W. G. Kerckhoff, which was formerly on this site. Below is the steel frame building and depot of the Pacific Electric Railway Company. Begun in 1902 and completed in 1904, it is 21 1 by 285 feet in size and is the largest railway building west of the Mississippi. It has upwards of 700 offices, and contains the head offices of the Pacific Electric Railway system, as well as numerous other railway offices. All of the ground floor is used for depot purpose by the Pacific Electric Railway. A2 Los Angeles, the Old and. the New W. G. KERCKHOFF BUILDING At the top is shown the old tent depot of the Pacific Electric Railway Co., and the fruit stand, formerly at the northeast corner of Sixth and Main Streets Below, the W G. Kerckhoff build- ing, on the same site, a steel frame office building and coast headquarters of th'e Santa Fe Route. C'.uf/.o ,:/ Sunut .^/.u■.'Zf'i.. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 43 ^.4;. ^ ROWAN >( Ff m I.W.HEUHAN Bl I^HIiii i^~ - Copyright, IQII. I'\ ./. /■ . ALL NIGHT AND DAY BANK Located at Main and Sixth streets, south west corner. Central building. Few banking institutions have shown such a growth as has the All Night and Day Bank, under the presidency of L. C. Brand and the man- agership of W. H. Joyce. This bank has had a life of but two or three years. It was started at the corner of Sixth and Spring streets, in the building shown above, and after reorganization about a year ago was forced by increasing business to secure the present quarters, shown below. Evidencing its growth. it may be stated that the resources grew from $U 39.045 on September 20th. 1910 to $2,019,030 on Sep- tember 20th. 1911. an increase of $879,985. The deposits arc now growing at the rate of about $120,000 monthly, and this bank undoubtedly will be one of the big institu- tions of the city. AA Los Angeles, the Old and the New Copyright. /Off. by J. E. Scott. SPRING AND SIXTH STREETS Southwest corner. Up to 1905 this corner was occupied by Ralphs' grocery store, one of the landmarks ot early Los Angeles, shown in the upper photograph. In 1905 this building was torn away and in its stead was erected the Hotel Hayward. a modern re-lnforccd concrete structure, shown in the lower photograph. Los Angeles, the Old and the New U5 Cotyright IQ/l.by J. E. .Scot. SIXTH AND SPRING STREETS Northwest corner. For many years, the Freeman building occupied this corner, and much of the time it was poor renting property, being " too far out of town." Now the Trust and Savings Building, on the same site (completed in 1911) is in the heart of things. The building is steel frame, costing about $1,000,000. The bank has resource of about $13,000,000. All of the stock is owned by the stock- holders of the First National Bank. jitfiiii' . MOUJJJ A6 Los Angeles, the Old and the AVro Copyrieht. rQIO.by J. Uorihurgh, Jr. SIXTH AND BROADWAY Southeast corner. This corner was occupied by a saloon as late as 1908. On this site has risen the Walter P. Story building, one of the finest steel frame structures in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 47 Copyright, IQI I, hy J. E. Scott ORIGINAL HOME OF MULLEN & BLUETT CLOTHING CO. MULLEN & BLUETT CLOTHING COMPANY The entire ground floor of the W. P. Story building, shown on the opposite page, is occupied by the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company. This establish- ment is operated by the Mullen Estate Company, of which Arthur B. Mullen is general manager. Mullen & Bluett entered in the clothing and men's furnishing business in Los Angeles in 1888. purchasing the clothing store of Daily & Sullivan, which was started as early as 1 883, where the Nadeau block now stands. On January 1 , 1 888. Andrew Mullen of Mullen Bros. & Co. of Chicago came to Los Angeles on account of ill-health. He had known W. C. Bluett in Chicago and the two bought the Daily & Sullivan business, which then occupied a store room 19 by 30 feet. The firm moved almost immediately to the corner of First and Spring streets, shown above. The company was incorporated in 1890 and kept adding to the store room until it occupied 12.000 feet. Andrew Mullen died in 1899. and the business was continued by E. F. and A. B. Mullen. Since the death of Mrs. Mary T. Mullen, the Mullen Estate Company has conducted the business. When the Walter P. Story building was completed in 1910, the company moved. It has the entire first floor, 120 by 150 feet, and this and the basement and the mezzanine gives a total sales space of 28.000 square feet. The company handles everything that men and children wear. There is a total window display space of 255 linear feet, and in every respect the establishment is equipped in keeping with the building and corner it occupies. Mullen & Bluett Company's great store in Walter P. Story building. Above, the Broad- way side. At the left, the Sixth street side. 48 Los Angeles, the Old and the New SIXTH AND BROADWAY Southwest corner. Up to 1906 this corner was considered too far south for a large business. The old building, shown above was occupied by a saloon at the corner and a dairy depot was next. In 1 906 the late John H. Norton built the steel frame structure shown below, and made it the strongest building, size considered, in Los Angeles. It was designed for heavy goods. It is occupied in its entirety by the H. Jcvne Co. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 49 Copyright, IQII, by J. E. Scott SIXTH AND HILL STREETS Southwest corner. The First Congregational Church, shown above, was on this ground for several years. The property changed hands several times, always at an advance, until bought by the Consolidated Realty Company, which erected the reinforced concrete structure shown in the lower photograph. This was completed early m 191 1. 50 IjOs Angeles, the Old and the New BROADWAY AND SEVENTH STREETS Northwest corner. For many years the Lankershim Flats, shown in the upper photograph occupied this corner of Seventh and Broadway. They were removed about five years ago to make room for the building shown in the lower photograph, occupied by one of the larger department stores. A steel frame building of the first class. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 51 t«" s ;i«!ii'M]nfli Coryri-lit, iQii, iy J. E. S SEVENTH AND SPRING STREETS Northwest corner. Union Oil Company building. This corner was first the site of the cottage home of a former county surveyor. Jackson. As the city grew, this cottage was moved, and larger buildings surrounded the site. Early in 191 1, the Union Oil Company began the erection of a thirteen story steel frame building, which will be ready for occupancy about January 1, 1912. This is shown in the lower photograph. iWllilP'r U «■ ii . ■^■iWii.J a - jpSilSiHpBpr i_ I ' Si 52 Los Angeles, the Old and the Netc Corvrtsht, IQOb, by Grafhic Publiihing Company ORIGINAL HOME OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK FIRST NATIONAL BANK The First National Bank of Los Angeles was orsianizcd in 1 880. with a capital stock of $ 1 00.000. The capital stock was increased in 1887 to $200,000; in 1893 to $400,000; in 1904 to $500,000: in 1905 to $1 .250.000 and in 1910to $1,500.- 000. which, with its surplus and undivided profits of $2,300,000. makes it the strongest, as well as the largest National bank in the city. The increase in the deposits of the bank from $1 .600.000 in 1 890 to over $ 1 6,000.000 in 1 9 M . has necessitated several moves to obtain more commodious quarters to care for the increase in business. PRESENT HOME OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK Los Angeles, the Old and the New 53 ^-»i^-" Capyright, IQII. by J. E. Scott I. N. VAN NUYS BUILDING, NEW HOME OF FIRST NATIONAL Spring and Seventh streets, southwest corner. The new home of the First National Bank will be on the ground floor of the I. N. Van Vuys building, shown below. The Van Nuys Home place, shown above, was at this corner for many years. Now there is going up one of the finest office buildings of the West. This structure, a steel frame building, will be ready for occupancy about January 1. 1913. The First National intends to have the finest and best equipped banking rooms in the country. 54 Los Angeles, the Old and the Neza O-fiTu-'H, ;.J/.^ I', .1. llo:,l,u,ch. Jr. BROADWAY AND EIGHTH STREETS Southwest corner. The upper photograph shows the Colonial Flats which were at this corner many years, and were considered the best in the city. Today, at the same corner is a modern steel frame building occupied by Hamburger's Department Store, and costing about $1,500,000. in ii;4!::::::*ifisiK[!l!jrfL: iunni:'iii|i||| r* , I Los Angeles, the Old and the New 55 Copyright. tQIl, by J. E. Scbtt LOS ANGELES INVESTMENT COMPANY Eighth and Broadway, southwest corner. The Los Angeles Investment Company has just cleared this corner of the shacks shown above, and is erecting, as its home office the splendid steel, tile and reinforced concrete structure shown below. Fifteen years ago. the offices of the Los Angeles Investment Company were in a corner of a second story back room on Main Street. Today the Company has under construction this million dollar home, at Broadway and Eighth. Fifteen years ago it had about a dozen stockholders and a capital and surplus of less than $1 ,000. Today it has nine thousand stockholders and a paid in capital and surplus of nearly $7,000,000.00. No more remarkable example of the growth of this city's enterprises can be shown than that of the Los Angeles Investment Company — the largest Co-operative Building Company in the world. The Company has today fully $60,000,000.00 worth of development work to do on property totalling 2500 acres, to which it holds clear title, r H P iis^ m m nm i ! SI: m m p^' 3' ; '3 IP J: -^ ^ 11 SI I? ^11 ii fS ;nfi''i5'. 33 56 Los Angeles, the Old and the New 171 N.B.BLACK5T0KP CH, ',/3 j N. B. BLACKSTONE COMPANY The N. B. Blackstone Company, one of the oldest and most reliable dry goods houses, began business in February. 1896, in the quarters shown above at 171-173 North Spring street. In October. 1898, the company moved to larger quarters in the Douglas block, and in June. 1907. again moved to the building shown below at 318-320-522 South Broadway, in the heart of the shopping district. About 60.000 square feet of floor space is utilized by the establishment. The Company occupies the entire building and appeals largely to the best class of buyers in Los Angeles and the Southwest, C"nrij;hf IQU , i>\ ./. E. S<>Pi{)!(?!!^t*!^)i> s irrf/if. /Of)ft, h Crarflfi Pul>tiihine Comfany The Southern California Music Company is the outgrowth of the pioneer music house of Day & Brown. In 1887 the company was incorporated, amalgamating the firms of Day & Hart and Powell & Haskell. The company re- mained in the quarters shown above, until the Bradbury building was completed, when the company moved there. In 1903. the company moved to the splendidly appointed build- ing shown on the left, at 332- 334 South Broadway which the company owns. This building is entirely devoted to the uses of the company, the aim being to carry a complete stock of music and musical merchan- dise. The company has branch stores at San Diego. Riverside. Pomona and San Bernardino, the representative establish- ments of those cities. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 63 CopyrtKht, tQlI, by J. E. Scott BROADWAY NEAR SECOND The Merchants Bank & Trust Building was one of the first steel frame buildings erected on Broad- way. It occupies the site of the old Y. M. C. A. building shown above. The Merchants Bank & Trust Company is one of the oldest trust and banking companies in the city. It is capitalized for $500,000. Its building was erected 1906-7. 6A Los Angeles, the Old and the New THE FRATERNAL BROTHERHOOD The Fraternal Brotherhood is the only fraternal order of National proportions, having its headquarters in Los Angeles. The order was organized in March, 1896, by James A. Foshay, then Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles, and now Supreme President of the Order. C. P. Dandy and G, S. Bartholomew, Its first quarters were at 1 25' 2 South Spring Street and then were removed to room 425, Wilcox building, and there remained until the Brotherhood's own building, shown above, was completed in 1904. The growth of the Fraternal Brotherhood has been one of the surprises in the West, but it has been due to the persistence, ability and integrity of its officials. The assets of the order exceed $600,000. Its membership is 51,000. It has paid benefits in excess of $2,500,000. It has 550 lodges in seventeen states. It is one of the growing institutions of which Los Angeles is proud. Los Angeles, the Old and the New CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL 65 The company of physicians which operates the Cahfornia Hospital was organized in 1897. but prior to that time Dr. Walter Lindley and his as- sociates conducted a hospital on West Sixth street, which was taken over by the company. This original hospital building is shown in the upper photo- graph. One elevation of the present hospital is shown below. This hospital was completed in 1898, but has since been enlarged three times. The ca- pacity of this hospital is for 150 pa- tients. There are 125 nurses in the hospital, fifty of whom are graduates and seventy-five in the training scoool. From its foundation until October 5th. 191 1. the hospital had treated 25,774 patients. Copyright, lOI I, h\ J. E. Scolt. ORIGINAL HOSPITAL ON SIXTH STREET HOPE STREET ELEVATION OF CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL 66 Los Angeles, the Old and the New BAKER IRON WORKS The Baker Iron Works of today occupies such a large area of ground that no photograph can be taken which does the establishment justice. For this reason, a pen drawing of this great works is shown above, the drawing being a replica of the various structures now occupied by the Company. The Baker Iron Works is the outgrowth of a httle foundry and machine shop started by a Frenchman on North Spring Street, in 1872, He had at times, as many as two employees. In 1876, Milo S, Baker bought the place, and the career of expansion began. No photograph of this old estab- lishment is known. Expanding business caused the company to remove a few years later to the northwest corner of Second and Main streets and the southwest corner of the same streets, where the Higgins Block (see page 69) now rears skyward in the heart of the city. In 1886, M. S, Baker & Co, incorporated as the Baker Iron Works, and moved to the present location at Buena Vista and College streets. In earlier days the work was largely agricultural, but as the city started to grow, the Company was called to enter other fields. Structural iron and steel, mechanical equipment of every sort, engines and boilers, pumps, mining machinery, oil well tools, and everything in iron and steel work necessarily became a part of the Company's manu- facture. With many other of the sound concerns of Los Angeles, the Baker Iron Works has done a profitable business. To do this it has been always abreast and often ahead of the times. Wherever skilled workers in its field have been demanded, the Baker Iron Works has always risen to the emergency. The Company has been under the same management for over thirty years, and those in charge have seen it grow from a little machine shop to a great manufacturing enterprise employing 500 men. The officers and dire.Lors of the Company are: President and Manager. Fred L. Baker; Vice President and Superintendent. Milo A. Baker; Secretary. Warren C. Kennedy: Store Manager. Harry S. Hitchcock; and J. Foster Rhodes. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 67 Copyright, ion. by J. E. Scott. SPRING AND TEMPLE STREETS Southwest corner. The structure shown in the upper photograph was for about thirty years the home of various small businesses, with a lodging house upstairs. It was demolished about five years ago and in its place was built the steel frame bank and office building shown in the lower illustration. The home of the International Savings Bank, an institution much in favor among foreign born and descended residents. 68 Los Anseleis, the Old (ind the AVtf Copyrieht. 1006. by Grafhic Puhliibing Ci J. W. ROBINSON COMPANY Founded in 1883 by J. W. Robinson, the Boston Dry Goods Store moved in 1886. owing to the demand for more room, to 171-173 North Spring streets, shown in the photograph above. Still the business grew, and in 1895 the Company removed to its own four story and basement building shown at the left and top of the lower group, at 235 7 9 South Broadway. This brought the available floor space to over 60,000 feet. But in 1907 the establishment was enlarged by the addition of the Hill street annex, bringing the total floor space to 1 31 .000 feet. The Hill street frontage is shown at the top and righ t of the lower group. The Company is now completing another addition in the entire ground floor of the F. J. Byrne building, shown at the bottom of the group, and this was ready about the first of December, I9n. The business of this house is with the very best class of buyers, and the volume runs in the millions annually. BROADWAY FRONT HILL STREET FRONT i — a property which owing to all its natural advantages will be one of the foremost long before 25 YEARS HENCE AkCH BEACH HEIGHTS CO. Suite 700, Consolidated Realty BIdg. 6th and Hill Sts., Lob Angeles. Alexandria IlLIrl Hide. SAVE FOR THE HOME AT THE HOME SAVINGS You Take Out More Than You Put In The safest place for your money. In a savings fund you are sure of a definite earning. Interest payable twice a year, and, you always take out more than you put in — which makes this the ideal place to keep your money. Home Savings Bank S. W. Cor. Fifth and Spring Los Angeles, Calif. *A detailed description of this great underlakins appeared in SUNSET for December, 1909. 86 Los Angeles, the Old and the New THE CITY THAT WAS BORN AGAIN FOUNDED 1885 INCORPORATED 1908 Once part of a princely domain, the Rancho Aquaje de la Centinela and Sausal Redondo. Now a thriving, up-to-date, pro- gressive home town with fine streets, schools and churches and no saloons. Over $160. 000 street improvements now under way. A NEW ONE. Let us show you Centinela Hills and Inglewood Bungalow Park. Oiled streets, cement walks and curbs, water, gas electricity, telephone, good car service with transfers, unequalled cli- mate. Everything you want in a home. We will build if you wish and sell to you on easy terms. 1007-1010 TITLE INSURANCE BLDG. HOMEA4.229 MAIN 6913 Th&GId Way To and from Lqi A ngeles The New Wdy Tlie Old Way was with months of toil and hardships, in a " Prairie Schooner." The New Way is in the Lux- urious Electric Lighted "Los Angeles Limit- ed, " only three days between I. OS Angeles and Chicago, Solid, via the Salt Lake Route, Union Pacific and Northwestern. Any Ticket Agent will give information. Los Angeles, the Old and the New (Conlinued from Page 85) (retired), whose skilful co-operation is a guarantee of ultimate success. Had this alluring and important subject not been so recently and so adequately described in these pages, I would here go into it at greater length. 7. The city has a cosmopolitan population that ranks high in intelligence, activity in good works and social attainments, and in her strong business phalanx are many men who are conspicuous as men of large affairs and great material achievements. Her " cap- tains of industry " show themselves worthy of the title. Her people have achieved for themselves an honest name at home and sweet fame abroad. It is the rendezvous, so to speak, for brave men and noble women, who grace the places they have won in the community. Here may be seen marked manifestations of civil life in its higher forms — life expressed in patriotism, religion and literature, in art, music and the drama, and in that social, educational and elevating progress which points surely to a yet higher civilization — to a state of culture and philosophy such as prevailed along the classic shores of ancient Greece in her palmy days, and which can come only with time and leisure. 8. But among all her splendid material assets, none is so valuable, morally and materially, as her possession of that priceless boon, industrial freedom. Her hold upon that great asset has already proven of inesti- mable value, and is destined to yield vastly greater and more substantial returns in the future. We have not yet, it may be, entirely thrown off industrial thralldom — but we are steadily approaching that magnificent goal for which brave and free men should every- where contend, until the entire country is free in this respect, with the right firmly established for every citizen to freely pursue, under the law, any honest avocation or employment of his choice, and to be pro- tected in that right from disturbance, men- ace and maltreatment by the whole power of the law. The championship by our people of this sound, just and constitutional doctrine has resulted in conspicuous success. The same success, relatively, should and must follow such advocacy in any and every patriotic community in the United States. In all these pregnant years of masterful progress since 1881, the Los Angeles Times claims to have had some hand in the superb CHAS. H. DOUGHERTY City and Country Property. Government Land, Business Chances, etc. Members ot ttie Cliamber of Commerce and Los Angeles Realty Board, Largest and most con- servative operators of Real Estate in the west. See or Write us Before You Buy Loans and Investments Suite 519 0. T. Johnson Bldg. Los Angeles Cal. This Office Acts as Broker for Those Wishing to Buy or Sell either City or Country Property. R. J. WIDNEY LOS ANGELES BOTH PHONES Buy A Ranch In California and be independent. S500 per acre profit in Oranges, Dates, Figs, and 100 per cent profit on your health, Big money in Alfalfa. Hogs and Stock: California Peaches, Apricots and Fruits bring the highest prices. We specialize in ranches from little acre places near the city, to 100,000 acre subdivisions. Send for pamphlets on Wealth and Health in California; also state what you wish to buy or become interested in. A. EUGENE BROWN 430 W. Sixth Street LOS ANGELES, CAL. DEPAFIHENT ON RANCHES RELIABILITY MASH 8c MCMILLAN REAL ESTATE AND EXCHANGE BROKERS We Handle Nothing Bat What Will Stand the Strictest Investigation, Correspondence Solicited from Eastern Clients Suite 616 to 620 Citizens National Bank Bl(t£. LOS ANGELES - - CALIFORNIA 88 Los Angeles, the Old and the New Van Winkle &' Funk Acreage If you wish to buy or sell a certain article or com- modity, you should see a specialist in that particu- lar line. We Are Special- ists in Acreage Write or come m and talk acreage with us if you are interested in buying or selling that particular line. We can get you (he result you are looking (or. Business Properties Houses and Lots Vail Winkle c# Funk 427 Consolidated Realty Bldg. A3975 Los Angeles Main 1461 Members L. A. Realty Board For Sale — Or Exchange — Property of every description in every direction. With my "Resident Ageots in All California Districts" gives me positively the largest list of properties for sale and exchange in California, Eastern property exclpanged for California properly. It will pay you to see or write me before buying or exchanging your property. A. D. Bowman. 503 Higgins BIdg., Second and Main St*.,. Los Angeles, Cal. The James R. H. Wagner co. P^irni Lantis Owens Valley Orange Lands San Joaquin Valley | Walnut Lands Alfalfa Lands 329 So. Hill Street Los Angeles development of the south and as it has marched " on and on and en." it has giown from an unpretentious four-page country daily to the expanded state in which it is now seen the largest newspaper, according to the latest advices, published on the globe. Los Angeles was sorry for San Francisco, because of the great calamity of 1906. She was sorry to the amount of half a million dollars. She never rejoiced in the calamity of her northern sister nor mocked when her fear came; but she is glad now, because of the matchless rehabilitation seen in 1911, and which her brave and resolute citizens are so determinedly working out to a glorious consummation under formidable difficulties. More and more the city is becoming the center of capital and business achievement where great industrial and othe enterprises near and far are financed and managed 'or the good of the individual investors and for the enrichment of the entire region. She has clear-eyed and courageous merchants who cater to a vast and far-flung tributary trade, whose arteries are found all along the southern seacoast, in protected valleys, among rugged mountains, in ambitious " villages of the plains," on big ranches, and in distant mining camps, as well as in the adjacent states and territories, and also in Old Mexico. Here are located great manufactories of heavy machin- ery for use in mining, roadbuilding, farming and irrigation- machinery frequently of spec- ial designs and of unique construction, required in the monster work of compelling the stubborn hills, as well as the more kindly lowlands, to yield up their hidden wealth. All such machinery finds a market in that growing territory which is directly tributary to this commercial capital of the ever-expand- ing Southwest. Los Angeles, big with mighty potentialities, and revealing the sure portents of future greatness, is marching onward to her brilliant destiny. Her day is still young- she is in the very morning of her career. She is only just arriving at the door of an epoch-making period — only at the door not yet having fairly crossed the threshold. All credit be given to those dauntless men who laid here the foundations of this metropolis of the present and of the future! With all these and other conspicuous advantages in her favor, the city is destined to achieve a great and a famous uture. Besides the increase of more than 340,000 in {Continued on Page 91) Los Angeles, the Old and the New 89 FOUR ROUTES EAST AND WEST SUNSET Double Daily Service Between New Orleans and California, through Dixie Land. Route of the " Sunset Limited " EL PASO " GOLDEN STATE LIMITED" The train de luxe, exclusively first class. The " CALIFORNIAN " for both first and second class travel. The line of low altitudes. OGDEN The trail of the Argonauts — The route of the SAN FRANCISCO — "OVERLAND LIMITED" SHASTA The "ROAD OF A THOUSANi:) WONDERS," to and from the east through the great Northwest. SEE AGENTS Southern Pacific 90 Los Angeles, the Old and the New A mile deep, miles wide, 2) pamiea like a sunset Thai's me Grand Canyon o/^ Arizona, -/ stopover permitted on all through tickets — Pullman sleeper to the rim on [% Cali/ferniaLimifed ASK FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLETS ^tiMSS^ Los Angeles, the Old and the New 91 {Continued from Page 88) her population since her pueblo days, she has made mighty strides in other directions. She has now three lines of transcontinental railroads, hundreds of miles of local roads, both steam and electric, many leagues of improved streets, beautiful and extensive parks, increasing numbers of fine public and business structures, thousands of comfortable modern homes for the average population — which is of an exceptionally high class- besides palaces for the rich and great hotels for the traveling public. She is a city of schools, colleges and churches. She patronizes music, art, and the drama, and in her popula- tion, intelligence, culture and hospitality find high expression. Los Angeles is, in short, " on the map " in large and luminous characters. California is rightly numbered among the " lands of the sun," and Los Angeles is verily " set in the sunset's heart." The bodies of her favored people are warmed by the sun god's genial rays, and their souls dilated by the perennial and all-pervasive solace of the kindly climate, fitting them for brave, gener- ous and kindly deeds. They abide in what is picturesquely called the " land of the after- noon." Speaking in unvarnished English, however, climate constitutes one of our most valuable assets. Here the " old, old story," ever fresh, ever new, may be told, and told again, and yet again, on almost any day or night of the whole year in the friendly shelter of the orange tree, or beneath the passion- vine, or under the ever-blooming rose. But if, perchance, the sweet and all-absorbing rela- cione should be interrupted now and then — only now and then — by a sunless day or an inclement night, then refuge may be had indoors on the right flank of a small fire of matchless mesquite wood brought down from the mountains or up from the further side of the International Boundary Line. Never a flake of snow falls on the plains here and a breath of frost visits these sunlit plains and sunkissed slopes only rarely. Out of three hundred and sixty-five days in the year not more than twenty-five or thirty are rainy, and there are three hundred days of sunshine, most of them of fleckless skies, and few of them marked with excessive heat. When the mercury rises the moisture in the air falls. The winds come mostly from 10,000 miles of sea — pure as the breath of heaven and moderate in their temperature beyond anything known almost on earth. The farmer in this region everywhere may Early Orange Lands At Terra Bella and Richgrove In the justly celebrated early orange belt of Tulare and Kern Counties on S. P. R. R. Finest soil; an abundance of water; climatic conditions ideal; view of snow-capped mountains. Oranges ripen six weeks earl- ier than in other districts of California. Absolutely perfect orange land at $100 per acre on our easy monthly installment plan of $13.63 per month if desired. Strongest financial and bank endorse- ments. Write us for illustrated catalog. ENSIGN-FRANCIS COMPANY GENERAL AGENTS 212-213 H. W. Hellmao Bld£., Los Angeles, Cal. DON'T TAKE CHANCES Homesteaders "■"> Land Buyers STOP AND THINK W^hydoyou allow yourselves to be deceived and talked into "BUYING" or being "LOCAT- ED" on poor alkali adobe land, without water and often very poor soil, when you can get as good land as any in California for the same money? There is yet good Government land open for entry vrith abundance of water and in its best valleys. This will make you an ideal home, Why should you buy land in Mexico or Panama or any other fever country when you can get better and richer lands and live in the best climate on earth, close to market? There is yet school land available, close to good towns and under good irrigation, that we can sell you from $3.50 to $30 per acre, that will triple in value in the next few years. You can raise all vegetables or fruits that grow in the Southwest. Will you investigate? It will cost you nothing, but may mean a fortune to you. Write today before you forget it. Mutual Bond and Mortgage Co. 626 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Los Angeles, Cal. 92 Los Angeles, the Old and the New 5 ]3e\'eriv Hil "A Suburban Masterpiece" Beverly Hills now has gas. electric- ity, sewers, mountain water, tele- phones, petrolithic boulevards, parks, water garden, etc. Greatest center of residential buying and building activity suburban to Los Angeles. New $300,000 hotel now in course of construction. Lots, 80x160 to 100x260, $1250 to $2000. Percy H. Clark Co. 311 H. W. Hellmao Bld^, 4th and Spring Sts FREE HOMES NEAR LOS ANGELES THI'", most marvelous story of home-making in a new land is contained in a history of the Western Empire's Home Extension Movements in California. Nine projects and suburban towns have been builded by 3400 families on the basis of controtUn]^ the tributary raw land to create city values so that original members secured their own land free and clear of debt. Nine of the foremost projects in California have proven the simple common sense and wisdom of this plan to home-seekers. A new Los Anj*eles suburban settlement is now ready. Send for details. Stnd $( in itampi for our Bookltt on "Land. Ranking and Horn* Srturing" — and J sample (Ofits of our hie Hurul Homr Journal. WESTERN EMPIRE MAGAZINE 179 Chamber of Commerce Block LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA J i ,.............,►..„..........„...> pursue his occupations three hundred and thirty days out of the year if he wants to include the Sundays, not only without an overcoat, but in his shirt-sleeves, and never suffer from the cold. The crops reaped from the soil here are of greater variety and of greater value than those that come from anywhere else. The farmer may pick oranges and lemons, grape-fruit, guavas, limes, straw- berries, cabbage, onions, peas, radishes, lettuce, and other fruits and vegetables all the year round. The apple crop comes all the time from July to November, inclusive; apricots, June to August: blackberries, June to September; cantaloupes. May to October; cherries. May to June; currants, the same; figs, July to November; grapes, July to January; nectarines, June to August; olives, December to January; pears, July to Novem- ber; peaches, the same; Japanese persimmons, November and December; plums and prunes, June to September; pomegranates, September to December; quinces, October to December; raspberries, June to October; melons. May to November. The nut crops are gathered in September and October, and honey is taken from the hives almost any time one desires. There is nothing more delightful in human life than rural California, whether we consider it in the rainy season extending from Novem- ber to April, inclusive, or the dry season cover- ing the rest of the year. In the spring the air is laden heavily with the perfume of orange blossoms from millions of trees covering many thousands of acres. During the time called winter elsewhere, our valleys and slopes are all clad in the brightest green, decked with flowers of innumerable hues. Our landscapes are like sunrise or sunset skies and vie with the rainbow in their var- iegated loveliness of tint. The poppies in myriads covering broad acres in single patches lift their golden chalices to the sun, and looking upon the hillside like a whole country- side in a blaze. Where grain farms cover the valley, the roads are lined for many weeks in the springtime and on into the early sum- mer with a rank growth of wild mustard, yellow as gold, and stretching for miles in an uninterrupted streak of glory over the land- scape. Even in the desert places — the washes- the yucca or Spanish bayonet shoots its tall shaft up from the white sands in a column as pure as snow. The flowering stem of this yucca plant is often ten to fifteen feet tall, and from its topmost tip almost to its Los Angeles, the Old and the New 93 roots, it is clad in myriads of these white flowers. Los Angeles is ringed around with uplifts of the earth's surface ranging from hills of moderate height to snow-capped mountain peaks on which the clouds of the summer day rest — over two miles above sea-level. The county fronts upon the Pacific Ocean, where the league-long rollers break in thunder or the wavelets murmur in a gentle cadence upon the white sands. Everything combines to make rural life in this most delightful of all climates not merely a pleasant thing, but an ecstacy of existence. Los Angeles has already made and planted unique and striking development records, and is destined to make and plant yet other telling records, so indelibly written on the imperishable tablets of time that they will never be swept away by shifting fields of ice, nor obliterated by desert sands or unleashed cyclones nor destroyed by moving accidents of field or flood. She is in no danger of perish- ing by drouth, for already we can almost hear the sound of the fructifying flow of the Owens river aqueduct at our very borders; nor by earthquake, pestilence, famine or great finan- cial catastrophe. She is here to stay, to grow, to expand yet more in solid fact and in good fame. GREAT CHANGES The writer has lived continuously in Los Angeles for the last 24 years. He has seen, and been a part of the marvelous development so graphically illustrated by the pictures of this book. From a hamlet, with its social and business center at the Plaza, he has seen it develop into a city of 350.000 souls. From then until now he has been instrumental in furnishing homes for about 800 families. The building company of which he is General Manager, is today the best expression of this great industry in Los Angeles. Its stock is the best investment, and is based on the most solid se- curity obtainable, towit: Los Angeles real estate. It is not only safe and sure, but is a dividend paying stock. Bankers and prominent business men are its Officers and Directors. Inquire today. Western Building & Investment Company 303 W. Second Street. .Alfred E. Gwynn, General Manager. We are building what we consider the best five and six room bungalows in the City of Los Angeles. We have spent considerable time in figuring how to produce a house with artis- tic exterior, large floor space, with interior dec- orations, such as paneled walls, beamed ceil- ings, built-in bookcases, writing desks, buffet, woodlith drain boards, large closets, cabinet kitchen, hardwood floors, etc, at a price that would enable you to own your own home and still enable us to make a reasonable profit. This has been accomplished only by the saving we make in buying our material in large quantities, acquiring land at acreage prices and doing business on a large scale. This being the case, we are making a profit, and you are buying a home cheaper than the average person on the installment plan. When you take into consideration the above mentioned facts, the location of the houses, and the rapid increase in values, it behooves you to look at these houses at once. 20 Minutes From City. Gas, Sewer, Lawns, Etc, $2950.00 to $3500.00 Small Payment Down — Balance Like Rent THE INVESTMENT BUILDING CO. 1005-8 W. P. Story Bldg. F 3175 Bdwy, 4575 F. B. BAER & CO. REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVES, AND GOVERNIVIENT LAND Loans, Insurance. Exchanges, Builders, Rentals 7 1 5 W. P. STORY BLDG. Los Angeles, CaL STILLWELL BUNGALOW PLANS CAIJFOIiNIA and P.^CIFIC r<).\ST HdU.SES in woiifl an-:>:*^J. I.OS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA IIK Los Angeles, the Old and the New 95 HOMES NOT HOUSES THE CALIFORNIA BUNGALOW Us Artistic Features — Labor Saving Arrange- ments and Inexpensiveness. While Southern California is noted for the beauty of its architecture and its delightful economies of housework, as well as construc- tion cost, yet the woman of true California spirit has her heart set upon a home place first and the house is the least important and the least expensive of it all. The call of the garden and open air is too strong, and the glow of health too satisfying for her to long hold onto the senseless custom of building great structures of unnecessary size, cost and labor of upkeep. The buffet kitchen supplants the large style of years ago, and serves for the lighter work, while the screen porch of generous size is where the less frequent and rougher kitchen work is done. Here, too, the larger stove is located, and preserving time is made less onerous because of excellent ventilation and cool breezes. The screened sleeping porch with folding wall beds is also an innovation of California, affording perfect health and rest in the pure balmy air, as well as economy of house space and cost. The newcomer gaily falls into the idea because it looks real good. She timidly argues "It will save cost of a 'spare-room' construction for company." Then after a few nights she feels the exhilaration of the night air in the foothills and she no longer can stand the stuffiness of a plastered room. When some of the relatives arrive from the East, a good flooring, some uprights and a commodious canvas tent under a drooping palm or pepper tree with wood stove for heating makes all the expansion required without the cost of building, and with the joyousness of the wondrous open air. Pretty soon mother observes that the children are ^REAL ESTATES jWH ALLEN & SON If it's REAL ESTATE You Want Consult W. H. Allen & Son EsUblished 1888 BROKERS IN HIGH GRADE REAL ESTATE 216-217 DODGLAS BUlLDraG Swank & Letton, inc. Everything in the Real Estate Business SPECIALTIES Subdividing and Building Houses to be sold on Easy Payments Information Fu.'nished Free to any address Main Office: 339 So. Hill St. Los Angeles Specialty Basiness Property and High Class Residence Property Write or Call if Inlerested in the Best Class of Los Angeles and Southern California Property MINES So PARISH REAL ESTATE AGENTS 353 S.Hill Street Fully Equipped Rental Department Phones: Home 10673. Sunsel Main 1457. Los Angeles, Gal. 96 Los Angeles, the Old and the New Members S Los Angeles Realty Board t California State Realty Federation Thos. C. Bundy & Co. 405 South Hill St. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Real Estate, Loans and Investments Reliable Information — Dependable Dealing Reference^ Any Bank in Los Angeles T HERE is one better way than any other way to learn about the Great Southwest — the fastest growing section in the United States. OUT WEST tells the story and the romance of this won- derful land of sunshine and opportunity. suBscRn>TioN OUT WEST $1.50 Per Year Advertising Rales on application 218 New High St LOS ANGELES, CAL. always free from colds when they sleep in the tent, and almost always sniffling when they sleep indoors. She has absorbed the knowledge of the value of pure, sweet ozone in the bedroom, without draft. One more step in the development: Mother buys a pair of top boots, a divided khaki suit — she starts out to the far corner of the garden to help the boys or father get in the last of the second crop of potatoes. She may have been a pale, nervous wreck from housework in the illy ventilated house back East, — but Sht's a Western woman now. Kxtra Copies of Los Angeles, the Old and the New May be Obtained by Sending 25 cents to Western Insurance News, 206 New High Street or Scott Pictorial Company, 118 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California, ■' a>.re WmlL Line World ovtrf' The THIRD EDITION of our bungalow book is with out exception the most practical book on the market. Designs of homes costing from $800 to $2000 predomi nate in this edition Send 50 cents today for a copy and be convinced W. E. ALLEN, Eleventh Hoor. Story BIdg.. Los Angeles. Cal. OWENSMOUTH MB- 315 1888 1911 All negatives have been preserved since establishment of this studio — 1888 — from which duplicates or enlargements can be m a d e by any process. THE STUDIO FIREPLACE Carbons Charcoals Etchings Artists' Proofs "EVERY PICTURE A WORK OF ART" Visitors to Southern California should not fail to have pictures taken under the most favorable atmospheric conditions in the whole world. A WARDED EIGHTEEN MEDALS Unquestionable Artistic Endorsement Children's Pictures in Characteristic Attitudes Art Gallery open to Visitors. Paintings by Prominent Artists on Exhibition. 336V2 SOUTH BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES, CAL. '^WULATION-LUSANG 1910-3i0,000 W.li(Mll&ND2.(0. ^^14 WILCOX BLOCK .•J.U./ Hi I In 1901 Los Angeles laughed at this sign. 'But ive Ivere right. iA^tVi^ti. V- In 1911 All Los An- geles believes this sign. And it Ivill come true. POPULATION I920-I,0a0,000. GRASP THE^ SITUATION. W.M.ti;(RLAND&(0. REAL EIST/XTE. 4JU Wt. I'.K. t- - -v^VvvkJI,,. k The Lesson: Buy Los Angeles Realty. We specialize on high class income and inside property. W. M. GARLAND & CO., Pacific Electric Building Los Angeles, California I HOG HOUSE. LOS ANGEI.C3. CA /; ^'^ n V ^o. < » i • • > »• K^-^°- .^^ 5»/ .^^-^ ^^^ '^^^ '^^ "-^ '^ -.^ /°-^ .<-^ "^o. .'*> c • ■ • . ^ .//^;:>^ ^°^>^''^^ ,5> -.,>■ fl,> "^O '-,To" 4* .0 »/.<=« ^ :, ST. 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