1951 ca - USA Daily Life: Los Angeles, California Daily Life & Tourists.

Los Angeles, California Daily Life & Tourists, ca 1951 Allyway with open front stalls, a few people walking through. Front of shop w/ chalk sketches, portraits. Mexican Candle Shop sign. Organ grinder w/ small monkey on leash seen from behind. 02:44:47 Awnings over front of stalls w/ Mexican rugs, women shopping. Man sitting at stall of food. Other stalls. 02:45:09 MS sign: 1500 Children live here! Drive slowly. Pan to apartment courtyard & Japanese women & children. 02:45:22 Tilt up dirt cliff to house on edge behind retaining wall. Neighborhood of wooden houses, boys walking, 02:45:46 City Hall & tilt down to street w/ pedestrians past stores, trolley. 02:46:08 Small driveway & vacant field. Cu sign: Hancock Park La Brea Pits. 02:46:26 Griffith Observatory w/ woman across sidewalk past monument. 02:46:37 Chinatown w/ cars parked, Pedestrians past restaurants. Grauman Chinese theater & tourists looking at cement w/ handprints (not seen except in MLS). 02:47:26 CU Idaho license plate. Pedestrians crossing street, traffic past. Smog. Studebaker & other cars past. Bus past. Tilt down Grauman’s. 02:48:16 POV in middle of street w/ traffic past. LS traffic on various sized roads on hill, overpass. POV down Bunker Hill street w/ smog or haze. 02:49:12 POV on funicular passing car going up; traffic at bottom of hill. 02:49:28 Alligators sunning on boards beside water. 02:49:43 Front of large home (?) w/ two story small columns. 02:49:51 Suburban road w/ traffic & smog. Road past shops & Sunset (?) Theatre w/ traffic seen from middle of street. Houses on hills. Large building w/ sign Hollywood ?? Park Cowboys. 02:50:27 Open air market w/ man to parked car & giving packages to driver. City Hall shot repeated down to street, pedestrians & dingy store fronts. Intersection w/ traffic & three story buildings. Japanese (?) pagoda. Waterwheel & fountain on building w/ elf. 02:51:26 Pan of valley nearly hidden in smog from hilltop. 02:52:00 Rooftop w/ decorative Arabian spires. Vernacular architecture w/ fantasy house. 02:52:17 Large modern building (brief). Pedestrians crossing large street, policeman giving directions in LS. 02:52:27 Modern buildings. Ext. of movie studios Oddities; Climate; Weather; 1950s; Pollution; Environmental Hazard; 1930s Whimsical Architecture;