Birds Eye View: Aerial Shots of Our City

tristan8561
Jun 4, 2023
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Updated: Jun 6, 2023

Westwood Village (with UCLA at top) - 1940. Photo from the CA State Library.

Looking NE over the Silver Lake Reservoir - ca.1930. Photo from the UCLA Archives.

The central library during the catastrophic 1986 fire. Photo from the UCLA Archives.

The Colony - Malibu, 1932. Photo from the Huntington Archives.

The Abbot Kinney Pier in Venice - ca. 1908. Photo from the Huntington Archives.

Looking from the Forum to Hollywood Park - 1984. Photo by Rick Meyer.

Wrigley Field - 1940. Photo from the USC Archives.

Looking West from Glendale towards Burbank - 1961. The 5 is the freeway you can see snaking through the pic starting from the bottom left right where it crosses the LA River. The old Grand Central Airport is in the process of being redeveloped at bottom center right. Pic from the CA State Library.