Vintage Los Angeles and the Southland

"Diaper service trucks and the mothers with babies they service" by Ralph Crane for LIFE Magazine (June 16, 1958)

The Wilcox Hotel and Drug Store, located at 6500 Selma Avenue on the southwest corner of Wilcox Avenue (ca. 1942)

The then-new air traffic control tower at Los Angeles International Airport (1961)

"Diaper service trucks and the mothers with babies they service" by Ralph Crane for LIFE Magazine (June 16, 1958)

A nighttime image of the original Bob’s Big Boy restaurant, which was located at 900 East Colorado Street in Glendale (ca. 1945)

Tobey’s Drug Store (now Gil Turner's), located at 9101 Sunset Boulevard at the northwest corner of Doheny Drive and the Sunset (ca. 1949)

Capitol Records and Coffee Dan's at 1511 Vine Avenue (ca. 1950)

This is an image of the concrete core remains of the Hill Street tunnels (which connected First Street and Temple Street) as seen from the Temple end in downtown Los Angeles during their demolition (1955). Grand Park occupies the site now as flat land.

Looking south along Santa Monica beach toward the pier (1929)

The Hollywood Theatre, located at 6764 Hollywood Boulevard, and neighboring businesses (ca. April 1942)

A view of the Boyle Heights Sears Roebuck, located at 2650 East Olympic Boulevard, looking from just east of Soto Street, showing the Shull & Phillips tire shop, a Foster and Kleiser billboard for United States Rubber Company tires, the Sears Building, and a Coca-Cola delivery truck (1950)

The Los Angeles Central Library under construction as seen from Hope Street (November 2, 1925)

A slice of life at the corner of Hollywood and Vine (1940)

Third Street in Santa Monica in 1950, long before it was made into a pedestrian promenade in November 1965

The main driveway of the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard (ca. 1925)