Showing posts with label Greetings From. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greetings From. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2012

Greetings from Los Angeles


I'm going to date this postally unused card circa1935-1937. Reason being, the observatory shown is the Mount Wilson Observatory. The iconic Griffith Observatory (think Rebel Without a Cause, and many other movie and TV appearances) was being completed at the time and surely have been on this card had it been around. What else we see here (clockwise-ish from the top left) is City hall, Chinatown, Union Station, the new Federal Courthouse, the L.A. Memorial Coliseum (built for the 1932 Olympics), Pershing Square, a "typical" California bungalow, Pacific Coast Highway & Santa Monica beach and the famous Biltmore Hotel. All looking like a collage of other postcards this publisher could get his hands on!