Fun With Archives ~ UCLA Library
The UCLA Special Collection has made thousands of old news photos available under a Creative Commons license. We now bring some of our favorites to you, and encourage you to check out the entire collection and share your favorites in the comments.
1950, Los Angeles. Suspect Arthur Hall being interviewed by police, as officer displays marijuana plant recovered in raid
Primo Desidero performing freestyle skateboarding as crowd looks on in Venice Beach, Calif., 1984
Chavez Ravine residents wave good-bye from truck
Customers at taco catering truck in Los Angeles, Calif., 1987
Graffiti stating “No Boring Murals” covering sketch for mural on underpass in Santa Monica, Calif., 1981
Councilman Ed J. Davenport displaying nude comic books in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948
Man inspecting the crushed velvet interior of a custom conversion van in Los Angeles, Calif., 1975
frankiely wrote:
Amazing collection of 2 million pictures. Hard to browse through all of them but my two favorites so far:
ART CLASS IN WATTS-Against the background of the Watts Towers, art instructor Judson Powell supervises the efforts of two youngsters:
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?s=uclalat_1429_b557_229980
Group portrait of Aqua show performers circa 1947:
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?s=uclalat_1387_b110_40526-1
Posted on 10-May-07 at 6:55 pm | Permalink
-k- wrote:
Altho I will probably lose several hours outta my life looking at this, it’s great to know about it. Thanks
Posted on 10-May-07 at 10:00 pm | Permalink
Kathy wrote:
Oh my god. I finally know what to do with all my free time.
Posted on 11-May-07 at 3:01 am | Permalink
Haromn wrote:
this one of LAX is pretty cool:
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b580_233680
Posted on 11-May-07 at 3:57 pm | Permalink
kate wrote:
thanks so much for the link to the collection. somewhat related –another cool historic L.A. resource is a story kcet.org did on wilshire boulevard. if you click on view multimedia you can see a tour of wilshire (vintage photographs) and an audio history of the strip.
The link is:
http://kcet.org/explore-ca/web-stories/drivingpassions/wilshire/
Posted on 14-May-07 at 3:43 pm | Permalink
Jay wrote:
Now where do I have to go to get prints of some of these amazing pictures? I would love to display them on the wall in my East LA taqueria.
Posted on 20-Feb-08 at 12:30 pm | Permalink