Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 7

This is the last from this collection and it's a fitting end.  As I noted in the first post from this lot  these pictures from 1930s Los Angeles were found in Hurricane, Utah.  Now, photographs travel and I have no idea how this particular album page got from L.A. to Utah, a long way in the pre I-15 era.  However, this last row of images clearly are not from southern California.  The cold weather clothing is a dead giveaway.  A good guess, a family from Utah sent some photos to their family members who were trying their luck in Los Angeles. 

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Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 6

More images from a photo album page that ended up in Hurricane, Utah.  Click on LA Hurricane in labels to see more.

Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 5

Go to California, get a car.  This is from back in the day when car owners got a new, dated plate every year.  In this case 1936.  When I scanned this row of photos it was large enough to see Los Angeles on the license plate frame, California and the year on the plate.  More confirmation that I was right when I assumed the photos on this album page were from Los Angeles.  Unfortunately,  I couldn't get it big enough to make out the manufacturer's  badge on the car's radiator frame.  I can't find any record of a Stack car company, so I'm guessing that has some personal meaning.  Perhaps Stack is the last name of the owner. 

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Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 4

Time for side two of this loose album page.  So, don't blame me because things are crooked.  Who ever put this album together didn't help out by cutting off borders from the individual photos and the seller didn't help either they way they cut the album apart.  Looking at this first row of images I have to wonder if the two guys that appear in so many shots worked at a gas station.  Well before self serve, gas stations, especially in a big city, needed staff.  Too, since most places offered basic mechanical service as well, it would have been a good starting place for two couples newly arrived in L.A.  When I started in on this collection I wrote that I actually recognized a location on this side of the page.  The bridge in the final picture is near Marina del Rey.  Today it's foot traffic and bicycles only.  Take the Ballona Creek Bike Path to the ocean and you'll get there.

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Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 3

People, if you're going to cut up photographs to fit in your album, please, use a straight edge or something to make it easier to scan.  I have to wonder if this page is a record of places these two couples lived.  From the Hotel Lafayette, to the Del Rio Apartments to a nice craftsman style house.

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Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 2

Well, it looks like someone has found a place to live.  Two couples, at the same location?  I looked into Hotel Lafayette in the Los Angeles area.  I found one in Long Beach, but I eliminated it as a possibility because of the way the outside walls were constructed.  I've found recent photos of the Hotel Lafayette in the Westlake Village area of L.A., at 2731 Beverly Blvd., south of Temple Boulevard, and east of Hoover Street.  Built in 1927, it's four stories high and now, has 65 units.  Today it's an apartment hotel, and may have been in 1927 when it was built.

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Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 1

I took a vacation last summer.  Made my way to Utah for the national parks, got as far as Salt Lake City, and returned home via Nevada.  Anyway, I bought this loose album page at an antique store in Hurricane Utah.  This album page with views of Los Angeles.  And how do I know it's from L.A.  Easy, I recognize a bridge in a photo on the other side of the page.  I figure there are too many photos to do all this in one or two posts, so I'm more or less doing one row of pictures per post.  Too, I'm only going to post the whole page for position once per side.  Eventually, click on LA Hurricane in labels to see everything.  I'm definitely breaking this one up, so  it'll help for anyone wanting to see everything.  I wonder if the people in these photos were originally from Utah, gone to L.A. to seek fame and fortune, or if they eventually drifted to Utah, with neither fame or fortune?  L.A., even now, can be a hard place to live.