The Rosslyn Hotel “in the heart of Los Angeles” was a large tourist hotel consisting of two units- the main hotel and the annex on the northwest and southwest corners of Main and Fifth streets. My great-grandfather worked there as an electrician from 1914 to 1941. Continue reading
Month: August 2015
City Hall
A visitor to Los Angeles in November 1926 who asked how to get to City Hall would have been directed not to the beautiful Art Deco City Hall we know today, but the 200 block of Broadway. Continue reading
Baby Joe Gans
Born Gerald Slaughter in El Paso, Texas in 1898, Baby Joe Gans moved to Los Angeles with his mother at a young age. He worked as a tire vulcanizer for the Huntington Rubber Co. before taking up professional boxing in 1922. Continue reading
Train Stations
Visitors coming to Los Angeles by train in 1926 would not have arrived at the beautiful Mission Revival/Art Deco Union Station in use today- it was still only a gleam in the City Council’s eye. Instead, depending on which railroad line you were on, you’d have pulled in to one of two downtown stations. Continue reading
J. H. Graham 