PHOTOGRAPHS
Cover:
Hill Street Tunnel looking south from Temple Street on a fogbound night. The double tunnel connected Temple with 1st Street – Howard Maxwell, Los Angeles Times, 12 October 1954.
New York:
The Bowery under the shadows of the 3rd Avenue El, 1940s – Andreas Feininger (Getty Images).
Grand Central Station Sunbeams, 1940s – Underwood Archives.
Los Angeles:
Angels Flight and the 3rd Street Tunnel, looking west from Hill Street, with the 3rd Street steps on either side. The tunnel connected Hill Street and Hope Street – Los Angeles Public Library.
Selling papers on Olive Street – Loomis Dean, LIFE (Getty Images).
San Francisco:
Photograph of Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill, taken through the periscope of the U.S.S. Catfish, a diesel-powered US Navy submarine, passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in 1951.
Turk Street in the Tenderloin, 1950s (OpenSFHistory / wnp14.3613.jpg).
Los Angeles:
Looking east down 2nd Street, dead-ending at Olive Street and the parapet of the 2nd Street Tunnel, with the Mission Apartments on the immediate right – still from vintage footage (https://archive.org/details/ADriveThroughBunkerHillAndDowntownLosAngelesCa.1940s).
The Melrose Hotel, built in 1882 at Grand Avenue, between 1st and 2nd Street, demolished in 1957 – Los Angeles Public Library.