Post #428381 by congawa on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 11:05 AM

On 2009-01-10 18:35, dogwelder wrote:

On 2009-01-07 11:23, congawa wrote:
I should add that that shot of Phil Ahn's Moongate came from somebody's flickr site who took a shot of it today. It's virtually otherwise unrecognizable, with ugly mix-styled buildings built around it, yet somehow they retained the "porthole"!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogwelder/466748790/in/photostream/

I'm glad to see other people interested in older Los Angeles! I took this picture as part of an ongoing project comparing old Los Angeles to its current state. I found the original picture in the Los Angeles Public Library's digital archive. I can't link to it directly, but if you go to the main page (http://lapl.org) there's a link to the archive. Other great image searching sites for Los Angeles in particular and California in general are the digital archives for USC and UCLA, as well as the California State Library archive.

Oh, and my project is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogwelder/sets/72157594197422246/

Thanks for the great Flickr site...I love "then and now" photos (even when the "now" is a bit downbeat).