Hollywood Tower

Image: Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/5077

“When the Sunset Tower opened in 1931 at 8358 Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, the apartment building was considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the Los Angeles area. This photo was taken in 1939, when parking on the Sunset Strip was an achievable ambition.”

Excerpt from Martin Turnbull post on facebook. See it at the link below along with much additional information.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=390710392616825&set=a.181986760155857

At the present time, this building was the inspiration for a spooky building at a well-known theme park.

So Cal Hotels

Left: 1939 brochure from author’s collection. Right: from scans via New York Public Library*

The All-Year Club of Southern California published a variety of guides for visitors and also operated a free information bureau at 505 W. Sixth St. in Los Angeles. Their hotel guide had 30 pages of lodgings but there was no overlap with the listings in The Negro Motorist Green Book.

• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1939” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/911d3420-83da-0132-687a-58d385a7b928

Baltimore Hotel, Los Angeles

Image from an auction listing on ebay.com

Based on the message, do you think that Frank was here to break into show business?

Dude ranches

Images: Front cover and details from a 14 page fold-out brochure published by the Santa Fe to promote travel on their trains. Courtesy of the Western Archives, Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society.

Listings for four of the eight southern California ranches are shown.