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Postwar block map of Downtown Los Angeles, which is framed with detailed lists of night clubs, restaurants, motion picture studios, consular offices, hotels, beaches, and other information for visitors to the City of Angels. The verso features a motor road map of the city and a chronology of important events in the history of Los Angeles County. Printed in dark green on a 22" x 17" sheet of white paper that folds to 4 ĵ x 7 ĵ". Some mild toning to the outer panels, with just a hint of edgewear; otherwise very good. Scarce, OCLC locates no holdings.

Map. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. In wraps. A (1929) folding road / street map for the city of Los Angeles, California, and the surrounding area. 28" x 21-1/2" unfolded. Produced for use and distribution by The Citizens National Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles. Large Los Angeles map on one side; Los Angeles vicinity, Santa Monica Bay District and Western Los Angeles, and Wilmington and San Pedro Harbor District on the other. Inkstamps for The Palms Tourist Camp of Los Angeles on the rear cover. Some bumping to the edges of the wraps, with a couple of tiny tears at the edges. Some age-toning to the wraps (mostly to the rear) , and a tiny stain at the top edge of the rear cover. The map itself is very clean, with only a hint of age-toning. ; 27C; 7-1/4" x 4".

Colour printed folding map (53 x 57 cm) of Los Angeles, the artesian levels of 1904 and 1923 shaded brown and light blue, respectively. A few minor nicks along folds, generally very good condition.

Good. Toning evident on recto. Some wear and toning along original folds. Several small tears professionally repaired on verso. Folds into original covers. Size 26.5 x 21 Inches. An impressively detailed c. 1925 Leslie Combs map of Los Angeles, produced for the Citizens National Bank and Citizens Trust and Savings Bank. It displays greater Los Angeles at a time of rapid growth, while highlighting the networks of the Los Angeles Railway streetcars and Pacific Electric Railway interurban trains. A Closer Look Coverage on the recto includes much of the contemporary city of Los Angeles and nearby cities, with additional environs displayed on the verso. Large portions of the city, including most of the San Fernando Valley, are not presented, presumably because they were too undeveloped to merit inclusion. A grid surrounds the map, corresponding to a street index on the verso. The lines of the Los Angeles Railway (streetcars) and longer-distance Pacific Electric trains are highlighted in red, along with bus lines and locations of Citizens National Bank and Citizens Trust and Savings Bank. Land owned by the county and unincorporated communities stands out, including Universal City at the top-left. Universal City consists of studios and other properties belonging to Universal Studios that the City of Los Angeles never annexed. Streets, roads, parks, hotels, cemeteries, country clubs, reservoirs, hospitals, and other features are labeled throughout. The verso includes three insets arranged in the box labeled 'Map of the Bay District': a main map including Brentwood (notable for noting a plot of land owned by Occidental College, a proposed but unrecognized plan for another campus, north of the Brentwood Country Club), Westwood, part of Beverley Hills, Santa Monica, Venice, and nearby neighborhoods; a small inset covering Pacific Palisades and Castellammare; and a small inset of Playa del Rey (near the site of the future Los Angeles International Airport). Below, another inset covers Wilmington and San Pedro, as well as the 'shoe-string' addition (also known as the Harbor Gateway) linking them to the main part of Los Angeles. Publication History and Census This map was prepared by Leslie G. Combs for Citizens National Bank and Citizens Trust and Savings Bank. It is undated, but from the content (such as the location of the Ascot Speedway near Lincoln Park and the presence of the L.A. Memorial Coliseum but the lack of the Los Angeles Municipal Airport), it can be tentatively dated to the mid-1920s. OCLC notes two holdings: California State Library and Yale University. References: OCLC 82498109.

Very good. Archival verso repairs along some fold intersections and margins. Slight loss reinstatement on verso near the 'on' in 'Exposition'. Old discoloration lower right corner. Size 33.25 x 27.5 Inches. A scarce 1915 map of Los Angeles produced by the Clason Map Company. While focusing on L.A., it also promotes two concurrent, competing international expositions held that year in San Francisco and San Diego. A Closer Look This large map of the City of Los Angeles is notable for its layout and insets, as well as its reflection of the city borders at the time, prior to major expansions to the west. Griffith Park, still in its formative stages (due in part to its namesake's legal troubles), stands out prominently at top. Insets at top and bottom include Hollywood, the 'shoe string strip' leading to Los Angeles Harbor, and the harbor itself at San Pedro (in subsequent decades, the city would expand in several directions, especially to the west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean). A grid surrounds the map, corresponding to an index of street names on the verso. Lines belonging to the Los Angeles Railway (also known as the 'yellow cars'), which was at its apex around this time, are marked with solid black lines. The lines of the Pacific Electric Railway ('red cars'), typically longer-distance routes, as well as the Southern Pacific Railway and other railways are also indicated with dashed black lines. Thick orange lines display the roads considered best for automobile travel, a sign of the shifting preferred means of transportation. Parks are also marked out in orange (Exposition Park was so christened because of the state agricultural expositions held there, not the 1915 expositions). The verso includes a map of the 'Los Angeles District' highlighting the wider region and demonstrating the scope of the Pacific Electric Railway network (in black) and the region's road network (in orange), such as it was at the time. At right is a road map of California displaying railroads, 'wagon roads', county lines and internal subdivisions, national parks, and more. Both the recto and verso include advertising from the publisher and sponsor, the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank. A Tale of Two Expositions Towards the end of the first decade of the 20th century, both San Francisco and San Diego proposed plans to host an international exposition to celebrate the coming completion of the Panama Canal. The two cities were hardly comparable. San Francisco was much larger and better known internationally and had the added incentive of a desire to celebrate the city's recovery from the destructive earthquake and fire of 1906. But planners in San Diego pressed ahead, even while lacking the backing and funding from both the state and federal government that San Francisco's exposition enjoyed. In the end, however, funding from bond measures and determination by the San Diego planners resulted in an impressive event (lasting throughout 1915 and 1916), even if it has been far less remembered than its San Francisco rival (February - December 1915). Balboa Park was completely remade and several of the exposition's structures were retained permanently (more than in San Francisco), while the exposition's exotic animal displays laid the foundation for the world-renowned San Diego Zoo. This map demonstrates creative marketing on the part of its makers by promoting an 'Exposition Trail' linking the two competing expositions. Conveniently located between San Diego and San Francisco, Los Angeles would be a convenient stop (obligatory for any train traveler) between the two cities and could thus benefit despite not hosting either exposition. Publication History and Census This map was produced by the Clason Map Company, modifying an earlier map copyrighted 1910 on the recto and two copyrighted 1910 and 1911, respectively, on the verso. It was published by the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank. This is a rare map, scarce to the market with only one known institut.