NOV 25 1911 F 869 .L8 S4 Copy 1 riohf. 1911 bv J. E. Scott Price 25 ^^ents HERMAN W. HhlLLMAN BUILDING Towrring cijht ilorici into the ill ;..- : ; :: -jn W Hcllman building, complrtc in c%tr> Hrnil i> • I'ryirouchly modrm ttctl frame structure. The upper photograph* show the modest cottage home oi Mr. I i ■* ago. on the site at Fourth ai»d Main ilreeli. Later the temporary one story business blocks were erect- jing was erected in 1903 and has never had a vacant room. It is the finest type cf bu>ine«i building whxh American architecture hat produced. II II IB I * "^^^jPCXy, Z^^-v^t/^.-i-^ LOS ANGELES The Old and The New Copyright, IQII , by 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. Ia>s Atifftlfs, the Old atui Vie \eic CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The object of the Chamber of Commerce of Lot Angela, is. stated njccirtctly. the promotion of Lo> Angrlrt and South- em 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 Pirst 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. mlWS A3tt;jl.5S Los Angeles, the Old and the New i ' 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. Los Angeles, the Old and the \eic 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 ll.0<)3 20.000 1890 50.3Q3 101.434 1897 93.786 130.000 1898 95.000 160.000 1899 100.000 163.000 1900 102.479 170.298 1901 117.000 193.000 1902 123.000 210.000 1903 136.000 230.000 1904 173.000 273.000 1905 201.000 303.000 1906 240.000 330.000 1907 263.782 400.000 1908 293.687 423.000 1909 307.322 460.000 1910 319.198 304.131 1911 (e*t.) 360.000 570.000 Los Aiiffeles, the Old and the New Cof-rright. IQIO. h\ J. Honhurgh. 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. 6 Lott Angi'lcH, the Old and She Scxn The Progress (^f Los Ancreles Compiled by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Poet Office BusiiWM , Bank Clearings Building PenniU 1885 $46,606 42 1889 107.330 ^ $36,873,242 1890 97.754 27 36.019.721 1891 108.806 46 37.096.126 1892 129.065 93 39.529.902 1893 144.831 44 45.240.725 1894 157.023 96 44.669.100 1895 177.911 04 57.046.832 1896 186.103 80 61.356.141 1897 200.941 03 59.323.916 1898 216.604 37 72.229.036 1899 226.803 37 86.341.616 1900 258.047 28 113.766.378 1901 312.524 00 145.170.809 1902 399.617 56 245.516.094 1903 497.531 06 307.316.530 1904 600.444 81 345.343.956 1905 719.023 13 479.985.298 1906 830.57O 01 578.635.517 1907 1.039.547 51 581.870.627 1908 1.089.493 04 505.588.756 1909 1.276.664 07 673.163.728 1910 1.476.941 52 811.377.487 No. Valuation 737 $ 1. 104,939 656 1.306.130 878 1.890.005 1.312 1.666.080 1.785 2.324.035 2.462 4.030.473 2.304 2.742.632 2.004 2.479.515 1.623 2.283.005 1.710 2.243.789 1.922 2.517.966 2.730 4.381.855 4.863 9.612.331 6.395 13.046.338 7.064 13.409.062 9.543 15.482.067 9.072 18.158.497 7.584 13.273.043 7.373 9.934.298 8.571 13.260.713 10.738 21.684.100 IjOS A}is:clcs. the Old ami the Xcw Ctrsnckt. IQIO I't J. Ih'T, lurch. Jr. PANORAMA NORTH OF THIRD STREET From the present site of Elks Hall, looking northeast. The upper photograph was taken in 1 888. 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 tak-n from identically the .«ame spot. 8 Los Angeles, the Old and the New The Los Angeles Aqueduct Statement bv the Chamber of Commerce The Greatest Municipal Undertaking in the World Will bring pure mountain water a distance of 230 miles in sufficient quantity to supply a city of 2.000,000 inhabitants. It is a gravity system throughout, no pumping plants being required. It will deliver 238.000.000 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 Elngineer 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 cast 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 January February March.. April May June July.. August . . September. October November December.. Mean 33 years 34 degrees 35 " 57 •• 60 " 62 " 66 •• 70 •' 71 " 70 " 65 •• 60 •• 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 E^st. Los Angeles, the Old and the New i ■ !f' %l ^■ litL'kk 1 iikiMiiiiiaWiiBffi ^^?^ ■ ■ . *^--- ;* ■ - i^i ^ "^■■Nlft 8^K 1^ ■ sm 1'^ r^ ^^ .^^n P^H IHr ' "^iffl Lof\ri£lil, IQIO hy J. ll'-nl'uT^ii. 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 :n Los Angeles. The change from 1888 to 1911. 10 ic Los .liiffclcs, the Old and the Xc M a n u f a c t I! r i n t? Census Bureau Statistics Number of establishments Capital invested Cost of materials used. Salaries and wages Miscellaneous expenses Value of products. Value added by manufacture (products less cost of materials) Employes Number of salaried officials and clerks. Average number of wage earners cm- ployed during the year Per cent of increase —Census 1904 1909. 1904. to 1909. 1.325 814 63 $59,518,000 $28,181,000 III 98.913.000 18.689.000 108 16.500.000 9.085.000 82 5.649.000 2.741.000 196 68.586.000 H8 14.000 97 29.673.000 16.125.000 84 3.367 2.004 68 17.327 10.424 66 Cheap Oil F'uel and Electric Power Did It Reminders About Los Angeles Compiled by the Chamber of Commerce AREA 101.25 square miles: average elevation. 270 feet: population, est. 360.000: assessed valu- ation, city, $383,078,890. 1911. TAX R.ATE 1911 City. $1.48: County. $1.07. BUILDING PERMITS For the year 1910. 10.738: cost. $2 1.684. 1 00. Increase over 1909 nearly 64 per cent. BANKS Commercial and Savings. 40: total capital and surplus. $23. 672.429; deposits. $ 1 38.2 1 8.- 417. Clearances for the year 1910. $81 1.377.- 487.47. an increase of 20 p>er 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. 30.000; 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.(X)0 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 BE^T electric system, urban {ConlinutJ on pafc 12) ind Los Angeles, the Old and tlie N'etv J J Coryright, JO/0 b) J. iUtihurgh.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 b'jildJng, on land donated to the Government. .K steel frame structure, faced with granite and Arizona red sandstone, and costing over $1,000,000. 12 Los Angeles, the Old and the New (ConllnucJ from pal* Iff) 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. 3,780'/^: one of over 3,000 acres, being the largest municipal park in the world. LIGHT AND PO^XTJl Electric com(>anies, 3; gas, 3; electricity, 2c to 7c per kilowatt hour; gas, 80c per 1,000 feet. TELEPHONES Telephone comf)anies, 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 resp>ect, 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; I tower wagon; hydrants, 2,710; 340 full paid firemen; I chief auto; 5 chief wagons. WATER Abundant supply; owned by the city; 9c p>er 1,000 gallons. FL'EL 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 f>er 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 fwtatocs, 50; assorted. 500; nuts, 9,000 tons; canta- loufKS, 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 J4 LiiH .liiiiilcs, flic Old and the Xtic FIFTH AND OLIVE STREETS Northmt cnmr. Mturd'i Pivilion shown in ihr upper photograph, wti (or many yrart the chirf auditorium in Lot Angrlti. In 1904 it wai torn down and was replaced by The Auditorium, thown below. A splendid re- inlorcfd concrete structure ^1llii ^JJ «^Y Los Angeles, the Old and the Nezv 15 THE CALIFORNIA CLUB The California Club, one of the foremost social organizations of the west, was organized in IS87 and was incorporated in 1888. It first occupied a suite of rooms on North Broadway, over the Tal!y-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. Cf'ryrisht. /Off. f'\ ./. f-:. : 16 Los Angeles, the Old and the \ew ELKS LODGE 99 AND CLLB HOUSE Dk. Lodge No. 99 was organized in 1886 and occupied various lodge rooms unul 1909. when the lodge occupied the magnificent quarter* shown on this page. There are 1400 members. The club and lodge rooms are approached by a cable train, and command a wide parK>rama of the busineM section Built of re-inforced concrete. .KINi. I K.i\| HILL MKLl Los Angeles, the Old and the New 17 C"n"Sfil. lOII. hy J. E. Su-!t. 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 New Y. W. C. A. 251-255 SOUTH HILL STRF-F.T HILL STREET NEAR THIRD The upper photograph shovu the reiidcnce which formerly itood on the »ilc of the present Y. W. C. A. building >ite. Organized in 1893. and incor- porated in 1894. the young Womrn't Christian Association has had a splendid work to perform and hat eictuted it. The present building was formally opened in 1908. It is -nlirely devoted to the work of the vsociation. which besides maintaina alhliatcd organizatiotu. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 19 Copyright. IQII. by J. E. Sioit 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. eo Log Angeles, the Old and the yeic lit' i!< >%. iif ! r ' UNIVERSITY OF SOLTHERN CALIFORNIA The Univrruty of Southrm Calilorni* wa> inttitutrd by the Mrthodisti of thl^ trction of the state, the 6rst quarters being in the building ihown abo%'e. Below is a photograph of the present CoH'-ge of Liberal Arts. The University maintains, as well, colleges of law. medicine, theology and other affiliated colleges. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 21 C"r.\r;ghl. IQOb. h Crarhu Pti/>lishing C< ST. VINCENT'S COLLEGE Was established in what is now a building in the present Chinatown, in 1 865. The Vincentian Fathers erected in 1 868. the structure shown above on Sixth Street near Hill. This and other buildings were the home of St. Vincent's College until the present main building, shown below was erected at Grand Avenue and Washington Streets. The College will hereafter be conducted by the Jesuit order, and arrangements are perfecting for a still greater advance. gs Los Angeles, the Old and the New ORIGINAL CATOtX>KAl. of IHt Dlmr---t. L,r MONTEREY AND LOS ANGELES niL CAIliUJUAL TODAY ST. VIBIANAS CATHEDRAL The PIm* Church, eircted in thf f»rly p«rt of the 19th Cmtury w«» the original Cathcdrtl ci the Catholic DioccK of Monterey and Lot Angrln. It wai not. however, one of the .Miuiocu. as many people suppoae. The Cathedral of St. Vibiana. on Mam street wai con»ecrated in 1876. The»e two (tructurea are ihown above. Below is the architect's plan (or the Cathedral lo be. which ii soon to be erected on a commanding site at Ninth and Green streets, the Bishop of this Diocese owning an rnlirr block for building purposes. 3»- - i > 1 1 f ^J^^ %(f ^g^ = - -tf . « « JJB^M 4 ' ^ ? 1 ^ • .Ml ^Ut. ' ' .jH T)lt CAHILDRAL TO uL Los Angeles, the Old and the New as Copyright. IQll, (■:, J. L. .s. LOS ANGELES ATHLETIC CLUB Seventh and Olive streets northeast comer. The Hotel Baltimore was for years at this comer, uni a photograph of the old building is shown above. Below is the building of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, approaching comple- tion, and being erected by the Club at a cost of about $700,000. It is a steel frame structure, and is the finest Athletic club building outside of New York. £4 Log Anscleg. the Old and the Xexo . -ill i- ^~^^IL ^ ^7 _ ^^ ^H Pv ^^^^^^^^^^K ^ ■ — ^_ ■■£.■ A^H IH h-^^^H:") Hh hbHL I ^pj-^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^K^^^^V-^ ' — ^^^^^^^^ " '^ CALIFORNIA BUILDING Srcond and Broidway. Southwrtt Corner. Thr upper photograph at the right thows thr O'Mrlvcny homettcad, which wa> at thii corner until the American National Bank buildinx. shown on the left and above, was built. Early in 191 1 this was torn down, and in its stead thr California Building rrrttcd. It is shown below. It will soon be ready for occupaiKy and is one of the notably fine rrinfnrrrd conrrrtr slnKtjres of ihr city Everything about it is the latest Uwt trckitcctural ingenuity ha* dr v The California Building may be said to be the creation of the brain of C. Wesley RoberU. the manager, who arranged all details from the organiiation of the [Broadway Invrstinent Company, apital $600,000 which owtis the iiuilding. down to the completion o( the structure. Architect* and builders declare that the constmc- lion of this building involved M)mr of the finest engineering problems which have anscn in reinforced concrete construction. When completed this building will be ideal for its purpose. The intrrinr finish is to be in marble and tiling, with metal trim and mahogany finish. There are three hydraulic elevators, and pipe >hafts give ample ventilation. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 25 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. ee Los Angeles, the Old and the AVtc ■ (,' SitRui .UdX^xii MAIN AND FOURTH STREETS Northwest Comer. For ytin thii corner w»» occupied by the residence of Colonel Jame* Howard, (hown in the upper photograph. In 1696 the old structure wa< torn away, and the site u now occupied by the Hotel Van Nuyt a thoroughly modem bLilding. and one of the famous hot U of the Weit Los Angeles, the Old and the New 27 ^A^r^-^' Cofyrighl. lOrn. hy ./. Iluiibur^h. 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 MLTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA PICTORIALLY PRFJ^ENTED THIRD HOMt on IMlMu 1 ... An.rlc. V.c.tcd SECOND HOME OFFICE! ^ Nov. k>. r«8. A^i.. .bout JI.,l»10.lli.J. FruMKo. Dcttro>cd b> flic A, •bout > 1 1 .370.000. Iiuur4n< r . liuuruKc in Force IID4,0OIUX)U PRLii-M HOME OFFICE. Soth .«j Oliw Sii.. Lo. An,,!,.. Ammi. (Aut. >l. l9n)UI 4M7S&47 liuurmncc in Foct« }I2).0W.4M. Los Angeles, the Old and the Netv 29 Cofyrtghl, fOOO by Graphii Publishing 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. so Los Angeles, the Old and the New FOURTH AND MAIN STREETS Southwest comer. The upper engraving is a process print o( the residence of I. W. Hcllman, which was one of the ifww residence places in Los Angeles twenty years ago. and was moved away in 1905. Today the land is occu- pied by the I. W. Hcllman building, the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank occupying the comer building. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 31 f^.ryrisht, iQio, h J. H'-Tihitigh. 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 & Callander building shown be- low, a thoroughly modern steel frame structure. S2 Los Aniitles, the Old and the New 1889 KIXY" ■SANK 1911 Not Iru rcmarlubic thui the growth of Lot Angcin i> the progrcu made by thr Security Savings Bank tincc it oprnrd for buiinru in a little ttorr room on North Main Street in February. 1889. In that year the cily had a population of ■bout 48.000 and the bank wa< doing buiinru on a capitalization of $75,000. In the period in which ihc population of the city has grown to more than 320.000. the Security hai attained the proud position of being not only the oldest but the largest saving* 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 ai its first year the bank had 1053 depositors. In September. 1911. th> number had become more than 65.000 open accounts. From thr little .Main Street room, grow ;ng business compelled the removal to Urger quarters, first at the comer of .Ma in and Second Stf'ets Firs* Home, Secur- ily Satinfi Bank. Main Sl/eel. and then to Spring and Fourth and, finally, to thr great Security building. at the comrrofSprng and Fifth streets. In all its history, the Security Savings Bank has bren under prac- tically the same management. President Joseph F. Sartori was one of th* organizers end was the first cashier. Vice- President M. S. Hellman was one of the original directors. Cashier W. D. Longyeai has been with the bank twenty- one years and other officers have to their credit long terms of service. Vire-President John E. Plater was president of the \ntirles Savings I3ank at the time that institution . Spring. At the left, corner of Spring. w«s Rafpht' grocery store. * ItnJnurk in thoK dayt. The white fence marks the second mtersrctmg street. Broidway. L r '■>£'■■'. I ■• ll-itmrtll. Jr. SIXTH STREET. 1903 First transformation. The building up the street was the first four-story structure erected, and the occupanta advertised thai they were over the hne from high rent*. LiOS Angeles, the Old and the New 39 SIXTH STREET, 1906 Third Transformation. Note the changes that have come about in the years between 1 903, shown at the bottom of the previous page. SIXTH STREET, 1911 Fourth transformation. The street is now nearly an unbroken hne of skyscrapers. 40 Los Angeles, the Old and the Xew PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY SYSTEM Los Angeles, the Old and the New U Cupyrigbl. IQIO, h J- Horshut nh. 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. 4e Liis AngvlcH, the Old and the New W. G. KERCKHOFF BUILDING i Wt^ niRBfinisiif nraiEiEi!!! At the top is shown the old tent depot of the Pacific EJectric Railway Co.. and the fruit stand, formerly at the northeast comer of Sixth and Main Streets Below, t h c W G. Kcrckhoff build- ing, on the same site, a steel frame office building and coast headquarters of t h]c Santa Fe Route Los Angeles, the Old and the New 43 Cofynght, IQII. by J. E. Scott Roms I.W.HmM*N BL ■seObJ Si; H C: 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 Da> 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 $1,139,045 on September 20th. 1910 to $2,019,030 on Sep- tember 20th. 191!. an increase of $879,985. The deposits are now growing at the rate of abou't $120,000 monthly, and this bank undoubtedly will be one of the big institu- tions of the city. u Los Angeles, the Old and the Xew C*n^tki, ion. h J. £■ Situ. SPRING AND SIXTH STREETS Southwest cornfr. L'p to 1905 (hit comer was occupied by Ralphs' grocery store, one of the landmarks of early Los Angeles, shown in the upper photograph. In 1905 this building was lorn away and in its stead was erected the Hoti-I Hayward. a modern reinforced concrete structure, shown in the lower photograph. Los AmrcJcs. the Old and the Netv i5 TRUST AND SAVINGS BUILDING Copyright lori.h ./. E. ,S(ott 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. 46 Los Angeles, the Old and the Xew "If ' 1 ^IB i«^sv^ lUi I^BgMK^K^^JI * ^ -* TL CtpfTigln, tQtO.tf J. UtrikuTgk. Jr. SIXTH AND BROADWAY Southrast corner. This comer was occupied by a saloon as late as 1906. On this site hat risen the Walter P. Story InjilHina onr of ihr fitirst slcrl frame structures in Los Ansrlrs Los Angeles, the Old and the New 47 CotvTii:ht, ion, by 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 Ani(flc8. the Old and the Xeic ■ft'"- toff. *• J. ' V SIXTH AND BROADWAY Southwrtt comrr. L'p to 1906 thi> comer wta considrrrd too far south for * Urge butinns. Thr old building, thown abovr was occupied by a saloon at thr comer and a dairy depot was neit. In 1906 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 i< occupied in it* entirety by the H. Jevne G>. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 49 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 in 1911. 60 Los AnsfleH. the Old and the New BROADWAY AND SEVENTH STREETS Northwcit comer. For m«ny years the Lankmhim Flat*, shown in the upper photograph occupied this corner of Seventh and Broadway. They were removed about five years ago to make room (or the building shown in the lower photograph, occupied by one of the larger department stores. A steel frame buildmg of the first class. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 51 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. 5S I. Oft Angeles, the Old and the Nezc ORIGINAL HOML oi I IliiT NArioNAl. HANK FIRST NATIONAL BANK The First National Bank of Lot Angrlri wa> organized in 1880. with a capital ttock of $100,000. The capital ilock wat incrraKd in 1887 to $200,000: in 1893 to $400,000; in 1904 to $500,000: in 1905 to $1,250,000 and in 1910 to $1,500.- 000. which, with its surplui and undivided profiti 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 1890 to over $16,000,000 in 1911, has neccssiUted Mveral moves to obtain more commodious quarters to care for the increase in business. rVUri M H'All. iJl i\Ki,] NATIONAl. llANk Los Angeles, the Old and the New 53 C.tpvri^hi. /on. hy J, E. Scoll 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 I. 1913. The First National intends to have the finest and best equipped banking rooms in the country. -54 Los Angeles, the Old und the Xerc ■ K-tchl. IQI '. »l ./. Il,':tytl>. J' BROADWAY AND EIGHTH STREETS Southwest cornrr The upper photograph shows the Colonial Flats which were at this comer many years, and were considered the best in the city. Today, at the same comer is a modem steel frame building occupied by Hamburger's Department Store, and costing about $1,500,000 ■ II ■ I I II iif arji liiJLi iC [ lliiijiirj r ■11 Los Angeles, the Old and ihe New 55 Cofynglu. IQII. h\ J. E, *((. 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 roDm 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 1 ■^. ^* ■ <# ^■■^" ^i ^^(««^: -i -3 '3 3 i§r <*t a 13 ^a ss - la 51 2a gi gp u^ es 9i nqmm sa ^3 i :'.; !jC du nc rin a m 33 56 Los Angeles, the Old and the AVtt- »g ?>jiimii^9B l N. B. BLACKSTONE COMPANY The N. B. Blackitonc Company, one of the oldest and mojt reliable dry goods house*, began buiineu in February. 1896. in the quarters shown above at 171-17? 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 3I8-32C-322 South Broadway, in the heart of the shopping district About 60.000 square feet of floor space is utilized by the esUblishment The Company occupies the entire building and appeals largely to the best class of buyers in Los Angeles and the Southwest Los Angeles, the Old and the New 57 Copyrieht, IQIO. hy J. Horshurgh. Jr. THE TIMES The policy of the Los Angeles "Times" has been directed for the past quarter century and more by General Harrison Gray Otis. The upper photograph shows the "Times " establishment in 1887. and the general appearance of Broadway (then Fort street). This building was part of the greater structure destroyed by explosion and fire on October I, 1910. Below is a drawing of the new "Times ' building to be erected on the same site at First and Broadway. This will be the only exclusively newspaper structure of great dimensions in the West. In the past thirty years, the "Times" has grown from a four page provincial daily, to the largest newspaper in the world. 68 Los Angeles, the Old and the New THE EXAMINER '■■■in ■ — ,- ' yjf. •" rf'A* %i \ "im^- L •;- ->.,-^-..<.^_. y> '"---" j^-^^=3^iKEeawr. C»Pfritht, IQtO, tj J. Itmritmrtk, Jr. BROADWAY NEAR FIFTH W R. Hnrtt oubliiticd the Lot Angrlu Examiner in 1903. The building w*i then new tnd w«» erected on the site of the refidence ihown in the upper photo- graph. The Examiner ii one of the recog- nized great joumali of the Wc»t. Caurfejy SuraH Stti^nnt. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 59 THE EXPRESS Th? Los Angeles Express was founded in 1871 by George Tiffany and associates. It had an exceedingly tortuous career, with many changes of ownership, until taken in hand by E. T. Earl, about ten years ago. It has developed into one of the fine newspaper properties of Los Angeles, and occupies its own building on Hill street, south of Seventh. This build- ing was erected on the site of the Niles Pease home, shown in the upper photo- graph. Once in the residence district, this property is pretty well in the center of the business section. NILES PEASE HOME. NOW SITE OF THE EXPRESS BUILDING THE EXPRESS BUILDING • kMfli^^H ■•: ^ ■ ■•• mem jt 1 60 Los Angeles, the Old and the Xexc SOLTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY The Southern California Ediion Company, which at the present time is engaged in supplying energy throughout Southern California, had its inception in the bamlike structure shown at the right of this illustration. This original home of the Company was located on Twenty-second street, near Aubrey street, in Los Angeles. The Company's life and development has been contemporaneous with the history of electrical development for the last twenty-five years. The Company has hydro-electric plants for electric power on Kem River. Santa Ana River. Mill Creek and Lytle Creek. It supplements and augments this power by steam plants, and by a ten unit plant at Long Beach, two units of which are neanng completion at a cost of two million dollars. The Company supplies electric energy to over 30 per cent of the popula- tion of Los Angeles, and to fifty- three cities, towns, hamlets and intervening rural communities of Southern California. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 61 LOS ANGELES GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION Cfryrighl. lOOO, by Graphic Pufiliihing Company -Li i"' ^^ 11 n 1 1 II n I III '.' " ^^i::^- iiiii liiniiii II 1 1 ni I, The original gas works of Los Angeles are shown in the photograph to the left. Below are photographs of the present day works and holders. The holders now have a capacity of 7,900.000 feet of gas, and will soon have a capacity of 13,900.000 feet. The consumption has been known to reach 1 5,600,000 feet daily. 6S Los Angeles, the Old and the New SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MUSIC COMPANY I^lillktHt C*ai/uch a large area of ground that no photograph can be taken which does the ntablishment 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 little 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. Elipanding business caused the company to remove a few years later to the northwest comer of Secortd and Main streets and the southwest comer of the same streets, where the Higgiiu 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 concems of Los Angeles, the Baker Iron Works has done a profitable busincu. To do this it has been always abreast and often ahead of the times. Wherever skilled workers in its held 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 300 men. The officers and dire.iors of the Company are: Presid.-nt and Manager. Fred I.. Baker; Vice President and Superintendent. Milo A. Baker: Secretary. Warren C. Kennrdy: Store Manager. Harry S. Hitchcock: and J. Foatcr Rhodes. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 67 CopyTighl. ion. by J, E 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 ofSce building shown in the lower illustration. The home of the International Savings Bank, an institution much in favor among foreign born and descended residents. a.f Los Angeles, the Old and the New J. W. ROBINSON COMPANY Founded in 1883 by J. W. Robinson, the Boston Dry Goods Store moved in 1886. owing to the^demand (or 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 m 1907 the establishment was enlarged by the addition of the Hill street annex bringing the total floor space to I 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, 1911. The business of this house is with the very best class of buyers, and the volume runs in the millions annually. BROADWAY FRONT HILL STKEET FKONT ADDITION, K. J. BYRNt BUILDING. THIRD STREtT AND BROADWAY Los Angeles, the Old and the New 60 MAIN AND SECOND STREETS Southwest comer. The old Ravvson block, one of the oldest buildings in the city occupied this corner tor about thirty years. Now it is removed, and in Its stead is the Higgins office building, one of the best examples of reinforced concrete construction in the entire west. The Higgins building is shown in the lower photograph. gpj ffFF aafi :!'s^.- 70 Los Anseles. the Old and the Xew OWMSTE-ltSi. NEWM/VRI<. *-•> LOUIS AOoeo - lyUKn 1899 HM01 1899 - JAM l»9*. aOOfD- '*" '*«6 Aooeo ORIOm^l FACTODr: 1896 liliEII OKICINAL SALESROOMS AND OFFICE BROWNSTEIN-LOUIS COMPANY A HISTORY IN PICTURES PRtSLNT OFFICE AND SALES ROOMS The Brown.tcin-Uui»Coii.p«ny. one of the l«ding manufacturing concern, of the southw«t. began a> a jobbing house in 1895. the organizers being D. J. Brownstein. H. W. Uui, and P. A. Newmark. In 1897 the firm began manufacturing overalls, employing twenty machine.. To such an extent has the concern grown, that when on January I. iVU the company occupies its new buildings shown below, it will employ from 800 to 1000 persons Marling in the old Baker block and in the Arcadia block, the business expanded by 1905 so that it wa. necc •ary to remove to larger quarters at 236 240 S. Us Angeles street, a three story factory being in the rear. But thc« quarters have been outgrown, and the new factory, salesrooms and warehouse shown below are about ready (or occu- pancy. I he company makes sp«ial line, of clothing, such as •Stronghold- overalls. Medal brand trousers and outing clothing and Duromake and Saturn shirts. Its selling field cover. California. Nevada. Utah. Arizona Mexico and the Hawaiian Islands. The company employs a capital of $503,000. The officers are D. J. Brownslem Pre«. dent; h. J. Uuis. vice-president: Henry W. Louis, secretary and treasurer. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 71 Cotyrignt lull, by J. t- iioH THE ORPHEUM The upper photograph shows the site of the Orpheum on Broadway, between Sixth and Seventh up to 191^ The new Orpheum was opened in 1911. This is a reinforced building of the latest type, and >s one of the most complete and besfequipped theatrical structures m the Umted States. It is a gem in marble, concrete, steel and t'l- It « on/^ oFthe Orpheum circuit, comprising over thirty theaters in this country and famous everywhere as producing the highest standard of vaudeville. 72 Los Angeles, the Old and the New BLAKE. MOFFITT & TOWNE EfUblithcd a> BUkc. Robbins & Co.. in San Francisco in 1855. the paper house ol Blake MoAtt & Towne opened a braiKh in Lo« Angelet. shown at the right, in 1891. After one removal, the house went into'its^own building on South Los Angeles street, in 1901. There is a great warehouse in the rear of the building shown below and the floor space uwd by the company is about 2 1-2 acres. This house deals in everything in paper. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 1882 191 HAWLEY, KING & COMPANY Owing to its honorable and public spirited method of dealing, the Copyright. /Of/, by J. E. Siott ORIGINAL QUARTERS Hawley. King & Co. corporation has built up a large and substantial patronage in Southern California, and the house and the management both have a large following. The business was established twenty-nine years ago. The corpora- tion is located in a spacious building of their own at 224-228 South Los Angeles street, having 60.000 feet floor space. There is a branch store at 1114-1116 South Olive street, where the company displays motor cars and power wagons. Hawley. King & Co. deal in the finest grades of vehicles of every description, traction engines, automobiles and power wagons. No other house of the kind offers a larger or more varied display of goods in its line than does this company, and the fact that just prices are quoted for values given, coupled with the fact that the management is most accommodating and courteous is the secret of the great growth of the business. Mr. King who assumed the posi- tion of manager when the house started busi- ness here in 1882. still holds that position and is also vice-presi- dent and treasurer of the corporation. PRESENT HOME 224-228 SOUTH LOS ANGELES STREET 74 Los Angeles. the Old and the Sere M A. NEW'MARK & CO. The wholrsale groccry'houK of M. A. Ncwmark & Co. \ .f^r,rhl li.H f. ./. A. _T,.II •( ^ J — J — wai foundrd by H. Ncwtnark in 1865. in consequence of a challenge made by the late Prudent Beaudry. who was then in the wholesale grocery business and was getting his goods over the freighting line of Tomlinson. from San Pedro. Mr. H Newmark and the late General Phincas Banmng. a competitor of the Tomlinson freighting line, formed a partnership to engage in the grocery business. General Banning agreeing to haul all of the firm's goods free from San Pedro. Mr. .Newmark supplying the capital, and the two dividing the p'ohts. At the end of six months, on taking stock, it was found that the firm had made some money. Then Beaudry sold out to the firm, and General Banning withdrew with the understanding that his t frighting line was to handle the business of the company. I rom this house of |-1. Newmark & Co. has grown ' iir present wholesale grocery house of M. K. Newmark & ' o . without a break of a single day. This is the oldest iiouse of any sue in Los Angeles. For forty-sii years this concern has enjoyed prosperity. Thr onginal place of business was in the Arcadia block on North Los Angeles street. After some years the firm moved to 205 7 North Los Angeles street, and in 1887 to ■ hr present quarters on North Los Angeles street, shown in "ic center illustration. This building has a floor space of about 40 000 feet, but the company occupies another large warehouse at the railroad tracks. About the first of the year, the Company will move to its new building, under construction, on Wholesale street in t hr heart of the industrial district, and with ample trackage ilities. This building is of reinforced concrete, is M5 by 'Ifeet in size, and has a floor space of about H5.000feet. ! t IS a type of building which most of the larger concerns of 1 m .Angelei are now ererlinf at the tracks for thei' use t III' m I » I I I I mmm g I »iHflHa Los Angeles, the Old and the New 75 O'tyrtEht IQII. by J. E. Scott LOS ANGELES RAILWAY These photographs show the equipment of the Los Angeles Railway past and present. At the top is a photograph of the first motor car operated in Los Angeles, on the Maple Avenue line, in 1885. Next to it is an old style car of the type of 1893. Below is a modern Pay-As- You-Enter car, the type used everywhere on the company's lines' These cars were the first of this type used on the Pacific Coast. The Los Angeles Railway is a Henry E. Huntington enterprise. It had its origin in a mule car line. Today the Company is capitalized for $20,000,000. It has about 350 miles of road and about 700 passenger cars. Its power comes from the Kern River and from Redondo. Among street railway men the country over, this system is considered as a model of what a street railway system should be. Los Angeles, the Old and the New s^^>*^ Cm^^lH^^^^lr tel^ ^^BH ^^^^^Sm^^^^^^^lB HflV^m^-^^H 1 i|| niF. START. \m* 1895.1907 NEWMARK BROTHERS Ncwmark Broi., the largest G>ffee and Tra houtr in Lo> Angcln. was established July 1 6. 1 894. and occupied quarters on North Los Angeles street, from the beginning, until 1907. That year, the firm removed to East First street, at San Pedro having erected a special factory building for their own use. The business of the house is so large that a warehouse capacity twice as great as the factory is employed. Their trade extends over the entire Rocky Mountain region The firm was established by the late PhineasNewTnark and Samuel M. Newmark. and it has been one of the most successful houses in the Southwest, due to the business integrity of the firm and their devotion to quality. < K' r 'RV 1907 TO PRESEVr TIME Los Angeles, the Old and the New 77 ,_^^m Wml^ CopsTight. lOIO, h J. Ifortburgh, Jr. SAN FERNANDO BUILDING Fourth and Main streets, Southeast Corner. This building is one of the various building enterprises of Colonel J. B. Lankershim. It was completed in 1908, but during 1911. two additional stories were added. It is of reinforced concrete construction and replaced the old Alaska lodging house property, shown above, which once occupied the corner. In this connection, it might be said that Colonel Lankershim owns the largest single piece of down-town property, in this corner and the adjoining buildings. There is a frontage of 2 1 7 feet on Main street, and the property is 1 55 feet in depth. The property was once owned by R. H. Baker, but was bought by other parties as the site for a tabernacle. Along in 1885. Colonel Lankershim spent considerable time in San Diego and Santa Barbara, and noticed that business prop- erty was commanding about $100 a front foot. This Main street piece was offered to him at about the same figure, and he decided to buy, reasoning that if business property was worth that much in those two places, it was worth more in Los Angeles. The purchase was made. The Lankershim holdings extend from the alley in rear of the San Fernando building, clear around to the right of the photograph below. 7S LoK Anodes, the Old and the Nexc UKIUINAL >hJKl- ur llta-i-MAS. iiAAj & CO. PKc-^cJ-* 1 r-^ lH & CO. HAAS. BARLCH & COMPANY Haas. Baruch & Co. arc the successors of ihc wholesale grocery firm of Hellman. Haas & Co.. who occupied a building known as the McLaughlin building, shown on the left above, with a frontage of 35 or AO feet This store room was ample between 1 87 1 and 1 888. Then the firm moved to the Germain block, on Los Angeles, street which was built specially for the firm. About this time, the late Herman W. Hellman withdrew from the firm and devoted himself to banking, and the name of the firm was changed to the present title. In 1892. increasing business necessitated the erection of the structure at Aliso and Los Angeles streeU. though at first only one-half was used by the firm. Now. however, increasing business has again compelled the firm to move. This time there is being erected the magnificent reinforced building shown below at the intersection of Second and Alameda streets, right on the tracks and giving the company every facility. The trade of this house extends over the entire southwest. n>nwrt¥linil»iWJiTn- MAAS. BARLCH t, COS. Nt* BLILUl.SC. SLCJ.>ID AND ALAMEDA STREETS IjOs Angeles, the Old and the New 79 VILLE DE PARIS One of the best type of dry goods establish- ments in Los Angeles is the Ville Dc Pans, nperated by the A, Fusenot Co. The Ville was opened in Los Angeles in 1893 by A. Fusenot, then from San Francisco, the orig- inal location being on Broadway between Second and Third, Mr. Fusenot was the first dry goods merchant in Los Angeles to foresee that Broadway was destined to be the leading retail street. After being enlarged several times — the original floor space was only 3000 square feet— the Ville moved in 1904 to its present location in the Laughlin building, taking, as well, the Hill street annex. The present floor space occupied by the company is 96,000 feet, so that the pres- '_nt store is over thirty times as large as the iiriginal. This establishment has always ca- tcred to the very best trade. The officers are: President. G. Fusenot; treasurer. M. A. Milbach: secretary and manager. R. E. Barry. ■/, ■ : ./. A. S ■■■■.'. ORIGINAL VILLE DE PARIS ON BROADWAY BROADWAY FRONT. PRESENT VILLE DE PARIS JLST A GLIMPSE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE SPLENDID STORE 80 Los Anseles, the Old and the New SAN PEDRO HARBOR Very frequcnUy it u _»M.'lr\ard. Sure Profit Makers W. p. WHITSETT, ^^-^cER 319 S. HILL ST. iii'iij>iN«. VAN Ntnm Los Angeles, the Old and the New of valuable crops which annually spring from our fertile soil when stimulated by life-giving water. The school attendance for the city and county gives an aggregate of 55,800 the largest of any California county. The number o' male voters in the city and county is estimated at 120,000. The number of banks is forty, with bank clearings estimated at $900,000,000. Chamber of Com- merce has a membership of 3,300. Custom- house statistics show the following, among other facts: Value of foreign imports, first six months of 1 9 1 1 , $ 1 ,386, 1 35. Value of exports, domestic and foreign, $198,634. 3. By a popular vote, San Pedro harbor has been recently taken into the city, and is now the official harbor of Los Angeles. Mil- lions have been spent by the government upon the outer harbor, and millions more are to be spent by Congress and by the people of the city for the inner harbor. It is a harbor not alone for this city, but for the great Southwest. It is to be the entrepot for a vast commerce coming westward through the Panama canal — a commerce which the future will surely bring to this southern coast. After San Diego, this is the first port and the first city of importance at which ships coming through the canal will touch on their voyages to San Francisco, to other northern ports of the Pacific Coast, and to the Orient. Going east from here, railway freight and passenger trains will find low mountain passes and easy gradients across the continent, accompanied by few obstacles in the form of snow-drifts and blockades. In short, they will find an overland route " above the fever line and below the frost line"— a fact of mighty advantage in railway travel and transporta- tion — a fact which has already demonstrated its logical power in the development of the south Pacific Coast. San Pedro harbor is not merely a local harbor, but one of national importance, which fact Congress has recog- nized by making large appropriations for its improvement, though not without a fierce fight running through years and years before it was won. 4. For good roads our people have pro- vided the adequate sum of $3,500,- 000 in bonds; the object being to create a comprehensive system of first-class public highways — in all, more than three hundred miles in length. The system will traverse " the imperial county " in ts entirety; its construction is now vigorously under way, {Continued on Page 85) Your Eastern Property Exchanged for California Property Good land wilh water tributary to Los Angeles $25 per acre. These lands will double your money. Grasp the opportunity. fimj^Es'^&O 303 I, W. Hellmao BIdg., 411 SouUi Haia St LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA The DAVIDSON CONSTRUCTION CO. Architectural Designers Contractors We do only High Grade Work. Let us design and build a new home'for you, 6th Floor Fonester Bidg.. 640 So. Broadway Phones Bdway. 2121 10701 YOUNG'S GLENDALE TRACT Splendid Chance for the investor or Homeseeker Only 18 minutes frcm Bread way. en €0 fcot N'acadamized boulevard. No pioneering, tract is an old orange grove, and has remained intact until recently stbdivided. ImproMmcnts consist of best street work, wide parkways planted to camphcrs and acacias; gas, electricity, phones and purest mountain water. Elevation wice as high as Broadway, yet tract is absclutcly level. Prices $685 to $750 — a Few at $1250 Terms $50 Cash, $15 Month mtlefor Fmlhcr Details. W. H. YOUNG, Owner 203 Johnson Building LOS ANGELES. CAL. Acreage Close to Los Angeles Land that will eventaally reach the highest value in Southern Cjlifoinia, is property L»'ri- voiiciit to Los Aneelcs vvheic ALL THE CONDITIONS ARE PERFECT lor the Pioduoion oi ORANGES, LEMONS dnd WALNUTS; whcrr the shippinj; jnd trjns- poitation facilities arc the best, and none ut the fe,iluics essential to the IDEAL COUNTRY HOME arc lacking. Foi reliable information concerning the kind of land you will want to buy, see MASON & MOON COMPANY 910-911 Central Buildins McMil.cis .it I. OS Ancclcs Rcjity Bojid ^4 Los Angeles, the Old and the Nexc we know all about California wc know why those who wnnt the best service always go Santa Fe ALL the Way and we will tell Our ro«l bed admits o( fut time Our equipment is built by Pullman Our meal service is managed by Fred Marvey. Our employes are courteous. Earth Kenic w-onder, the Grand Canyon, is i-n your vray and you have the privilege of stopping over. Scenes of Ancient Indian Pueblos, en route. And it's one management all the way — via Santa Fe. Our booklrts tell what you want to know. SantaFe Jno. J. Byrne. A. P. T. M.. Santa Fe Ry., l^os Anceic*. Calif. Santa Fe Los Angeles, the Old and the New 85 (ConlinueJ from Page S?) and will be completed possibly within one year — certainly before the date when the Panama canal and Owens river aqueduct shall have become mighty facts accomplished. These roads should prove to be as good an investment, relatively, as will the other great public investments touched upon in this article. 5. Among other notable things this county has attained the surprising distinction of being pronounced " the richest in the West." At least, the State Board of Equalization of California has placed her in that category, and has thus unconsciously paid an eloquent tribute to the extent and value of her property. According to the official figures of these zealous servants of the State, Los Angeles county heads the procession in California, and also in the chief cities west of and includ- ing Cook county, Illinois. 6. But more important, still larger and more far-reaching, is the pending project for impounding the waters of Owens river and bringing them down to the doors of the city.* Here is a tremendous physical enterprise, striking in scope, conception and character, bold in execution, mighty in the results it will bring to our waiting and water-using people, it is destined to return to the investors, many times over, the cost of the work, great as that cost will be. In voting a bond issue in the immense sum of $23,000,000 for this stupendous but necessary work, the people of the city showed not only great wisdom and profound confidence in her future, but they exhibited at the same time a degree of nerve never, in my opinion, shown by any other community on earth of like size, under like conditions and with a like environment. The project is to bring from the base of Mount Whitney, highest of the Sierras, more than two hundred miles away, a supply of pure mountain water right down to the city's doors — traversing the intervening distance through rugged mountains, along deep canyons and across burning deserts. Everything thus far developed in this nervy and notable under- taking is propitious. The vast work is going on with system and celerity. The two chief human factors in the field of the Owens river construction are Chief Engineer William Mulholland and Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee {Conlinutd on Page 87) LOOKING BACKWARD is of interest, because in the steadily proeressive com- munity, tributary and surrounding Los Angeles, looking backward aives us every basis for LOOKING AHEAD Our office is on the 7lh riour of the Consolidated Realty Building, one of the finest sirnctures in ihe city. 25 YEARS AGO a little church stood on the corner now occupied by this 1 YEAR AGO ARCH BEACH was only known to a few^Iovers of Nature, excursionists and dwellers by the seashore. TO-DAY ARCH BEACH has about half a hundred substantial buildings; is on a fully developed main County Road, and about 1500 owners who are interested in property — a properly which owing to all its natural advantages will be one of the foremost long before 25 YEARS HENCE ARCH BEACH HEIGHTS CO. Suite 700, Consolidated Really BIdg. 6th and Hill Sts., Los Angeles. Alexandria Htul BUz. SA VE FOK THE HOME AT THE HOME SA 17.VCS 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 payalile twice a year, and, you always take out more than you put in — uiiich makes this the ideal place to keep your money. Home Savings Bank S. W. Cor. Fifth and Spring Los Angeles, Calif. *A detailed descriplion of (his greal undertaking appeared in SUN SET for December. 190'*. S6 Los Angeleit. the Old and the Nexc THE CITY THAT WAS BORN AGAIN rOUNOEO 1885 INCORPORATED 1908 Once part of a princely donuin. the Rancho Aquajr dc la Ccntiotla and Saiual Rcdoodo. Now a thriving, up-to-date, pro- gressive home town with fine streett. schools and churches and no saloons Orcr $160. OOO street improremenls now under wiv A NEW ON K. Let us show you Centinela Hills and Inflewood Bungalow Park Oiled streets, cement walks and curbs, water, gas electricity, telephone, good car service with transfers, unequalled cli- nule. Everything you want in a home. We will build if yoo wish and sell to you on easy terms. Jiuulf luimit lCan^ (Tnmpanii 1007-1010 TITLE INSURANCE BLDG. HOMEA4229 MAIN 6913 TlieOldWay To and from Lqs_ A ngeles The New Way The Old Way was with months of toil and hardships, in a " Prairie Schooner." The New Way IS in the Lnx- nnons Electric Lighted " Lof An;ieles Limit- ed. " only three days between I. OS Angeles and Chicaf>o, Solid, via the Salt Lake Route, Union Pac 1 f ic and Northwestern. Any Ticket Agent will give iaformation. Los Angeles, the Old and the New 87 (Continued 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 Cliances. etc, Members of 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 InTestments Suite 519 0. T. Johason Bldg. Los Angeles Cal, This Office Acts as Broker for Those Wishing to Buy or Sell cither City or Country Property. R. J. WIDNEY LOS ANGELES BOTH PHONES Buy A Ranch In California and be independent, $500 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, Siith Stieet LOS ANGELES, CAL, DETARTHENT ON RANCHES RELIABILITY MASH & MCMILLAN REAL ESTATE AND EXCHANGE BROKERS We Handle Nothing But What Will Stand the Strictest Investigation. Correspondence Solicited from Eastern Clients Suite 616 to 620 Citizens National Bank B\ii. LOS ANGELES - - CALIFORNIA 88 IjOs Anscles. the Old and the New V(JN Winkle c# Fmik Acreage U roo vt>b lo but or wll a wrtam irtkk or com DwditT. you sbouM wc t tpccialM in that pvtlcu \u lint. We Are Special- ists in Acreage Wnlt or come at and lilk acreaie witb us U you art Inlcmttd n buyint or kIIioi Ihat partlcolar linr Wc cac ttl you Ibc runll you arr lookint for. liusiness Properties HoiiN«?s and Lots Van II Ink/e cf Fnnk 427 Consulidatcil Realty Blil(;. A3975 l.os Angeles Main 1461 Membrn L. A. Rralty Board The James R. H. \\ agner to 1 arm Lands Owens Valley Orange Lands San Joaquin Valley Walnut Lands Alfalfa Lands 329 So. Hill Street | 1 Los Angeles I'orSale — OrKxchange — Property of ewrr dcKHplton tn ererr direction. WUh my "Rfstdeot Afcots io All California Dbtn'cb" Ami < fort mr I'' .i> r),f% (or vale r or wnle A. D. Bowman. 503 Higgins RIdg., Sfcnnd tnd Mim 5ts., Iji^ Ancrle*. Csl. development of the south and as it has marched " on and on and en." it has grown from an unpretentious I'our-page country daily to the expanded state in which it is now seen the largest newspap>cr. 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 ranchos. 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 {ConlinutJ on Pafi 91) Los Angeles, the Old and the New 89 FOUR ROUTES EAST AND WEST SUNSET Double Daily Service Between New Orleans and California, through 13ixie 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 1 he trail of the Argonauts — The route of the SAN FRANCISCO — "OVERLAND LIMITED" SHASTA The "ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS," to and from the east through the great Northwest. SEE AGENTS Southern Pacific 90 Los Angclvs, the Old and the Sew A mile deep, miles wide, 2) painiea like a sunset I hai's ine Grand Canyon o/^ Arizona, -^ stopover permitted on all through tickets — Pullman sleeper to the rim on [% Cali/fernia Limited ASK rOR OUR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLETS V/th.T'' Los Angeles, the Old and the New 91 (Conlinuccl 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. Tfie 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 $13.53 per month if desired. Strongest financial and bank endorse- ments. Write us for illustrated catalog. ENSIGN-FRANCIS COMPANY GENERAU AGENTS 212-213 H. W. Hellmaa BIdg., Los Angeles, Cal. DON'T TAKE CHANCES Homesteaders ""'' Land Buyers STOP AND THINK Why do you 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 wilh abundanceof waterand 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 vrill 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 BIdg. Los Angeles. Cal. 92 Los Angeles, the Old and the AVtc .. 13e\'erly Hills A Suburban Masterpiece" Bfvcrl) H1II5 nuw ha^ a^i. clfctric- ily, sewrrs, mountain water, tele- phones, pctrolithic boulevards, parks, water garden, etc. Greatest center of residential buying and building activilv suburban to Los Angeles. New $300,000 hotel now in course of construction. Lois, 80«I60 to 100x260. $1250 to $2000. Percy H. Clark Co. 311 U W. Hellinaa BM( , 4Ucachcs, 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 landscap>es are like sunrise or sunset skies and vie with the rainbow in their var- iegated loveliness of tint. The pwppies 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 ^all 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 3')0.000 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, towitr 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 tlie best five and six room bungalows in the City of I. OS 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 GOVERNMENT GROVES, AND LAND Loans, Insurance, Exchanges , Builders, Rentals 71S AV. P. STORY BLDG. Los Angeles, Cal. w^ ^ STILLWELL BUNCALOW PLANS ^ ^-^ -^ -■ CAIvIFOKNlA and PACIFIC COAST HOUSKS in - ^ ^""^ ' .^^^- wood and concrete are every whi^reackiiowlcdfUHl the most IJeautiful and Practic;il. Western Bunealnws combine i'\-ery c0 IJuii;;alo\vs. f\.ittiiKi^ and Con<-rete Kt^itienees. One and two storv houses of Ave to ten rooms costing S1500 to SOOOO. **West Coast BunKalows**--Prlce 50 cents 50 one story Bungalows of four to six rooms costing $500 This is ihe unlv publiHhed eolle<'tion uf \ cry low cost Bungalows. E. W. STILLWELL & CO. 216 Henne BldR., 13? Third St. Los Angeles, Cal. 94 Los Angeles, the Old and the New ^1 be 'oJew^niGnihs from^today —'i—f ■-■' - ■ 1000ft 7x*^"^-.^^— ' ^^ 500 secures a suburban homesite and participation in purchase of impor- tant trolley systL-ni, and hunH>ihUlii Iluil juu have yeiimed ^■■11 must Invi-miKiilP and accept thU MK of the lam uUI vliieyaril rancho — >i' t.. 1...S Alii.-. I.--. deetl tu 1'mI frum ' ;-tro- -iile- anil i I'll out • r». '•Test In ■ , (In lilev ■ : .-I I .■>- -. KChlHjI .1 m. <-t(v li in ijiui-, .iiul ilii- ualt'i 111! W.-.«t.Mi Kiur. Ire's well- nd-Bank- I'luler M U>|g In our f(»ni to tli pr •y\ III \\. M Ml. Ou ml • rui treat Wa»co Colony at $12.7* each, only • v.-..,s :iu-.. llitil li;.V.. I Ill'- «..Hll |1'"0 and then loae no time In ■ now run to within a hftlf .inl traoj. Daily auto ex- . 2 p.m.. fn>m our fifflc*. THERE ARE NO COMPLICATIONS. M<-ml»-:^ -' 11. :< r.>M. Ill •• :■ •' u.^rTt, .Iniihle their •■ "• In hHit • r lh:il tl ■ « tidi* near I I ieJ to ■. Him- IDOO.OOO PEOPLE IN 1920! HOW THIS OPPORTUNITY HAPPENED. If ■■ ,...,... .,.. fU! ■•< w;i dl ' hi. In.i' r our lllu:e 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 comer 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 She's a Watern woman now. Extra 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. Die THIRD EDITION of our bungilow book ■■ w.th out rxcrption thr mott practical book on the market. nrsignj of homr« -osling from )800 to )2000 prnjomi n«lr in this edition Send 50 rtnU today for a copy and be convinced W. E. ALLEN. Eknilk Flm. Star; BU|.. U Ai«(ia. U OWENSMOUTH 1888 1911 All negatives have been preserved since establishment of this studio — 1888 — from which duplicates or enlargements c an be made by an}' process. THE STUDIO FIREPI.ACK 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 One copy del. to Cat. Div. rs. Paintings by Prominent Artists on Exhibition. BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES, CAL. NOV 28 IQl . 0PUIATIONL0SAN6 1910--35O,000 ■^14 WILCOX BLOCK LttRflRY OF CONGRESS mill 017 138 427 fit In 1901 Los Angeles laughed at this sign. "But Ive U'ere right. .•v;,..llP.J»l'»,« w In 1911 All Los An- iijcles believes this sign. A nd it IpUI come true. :i PToPULATIO?^ '1920-1,000,000. GRASP TH^ITUATION. W.)l«ARLAND&(0. _ REAL EST/XTTE:. ■IJ. '^U wu «. ^. k -v-i. «**:». The Lesson: Hii> I -OS Angeles Realty. We specialize on high class income and inside property. W. M. CARI.ANI) S: CO., I^icihc MIectric Huildinfr l-ros Angeles, ("-alifornia t.HttMtBNOH rte i •»« HOUIL LOa AMfcllll c«.