Forgotten Los Angeles

A deep dive into the rich history of LA. Join me and let’s travel through time.
Started on Instagram as ForgottenMadness_LA. See link below.

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Taken in downtown LA in 1937, at 3rd & Spring, where a woman protests immigration raids being performed in violation of the law.

Photo via @UCLALibrary

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Los Angeles, as seen through the lens of 1920s VFX

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Vine at night, looking north toward Hollywood in 1936.

Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE Magazine.

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The Hill Street Tunnels on a foggy night, taken October 11, 1954.

We’re at Temple here, looking down Hill Street toward 1st.

📷: Howard Maxwell / LA Times

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Opening Night at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, July 11, 1960

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When you take a drive through the Hollywood Hills before they’ve finished rendering…

Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE Magazine, 1936

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Sutherland is in costume here, filming Paul Mazursky’s “Alex in Wonderland” for MGM, but Fonda does not appear in that film. My guess is that she’s visiting the set to talk about “Klute,” which they’d begin shooting in New York a few months later.

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Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda walk on the Sunset Strip in 1970, standing about where Carney’s is located today.

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That clip comes from four minutes of footage from the Hollywood premiere of Roger Corman’s “The Tomb of Ligeia” (1964) at the Pix Theatre at Hollywood & Gower (now the Fonda).

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I love this city. What utter lunacy.

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56 years ago.

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LA’s New Chinatown, as filmed in color by Hong You Chow in 1942.

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From the Hollywood Citizen News, January 27, 1964:

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Grand Central Market in 1963.

This is a brief clip from an incredible 10-minute short film on LA’s oldest public market, directed by William Hale and shot by Haskell Wexler.

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Santa Monica circa 1977.

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Griffith Observatory staff debuts a new solar eclipse exhibit, year unknown.

Photo via @LAPublicLibrary

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Spencer Tracy on the set of “The Old Man and the Sea” at Warner Bros in August 1957.

The film took two years to make and was considered a “jinxed production.”

📷: Ralph Crane / LIFE

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Fun with Hollywood backdrops at MGM, taken by Allan Grant for LIFE Magazine in 1955.

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MGM backdrops, 1955

📷: Grant / LIFE