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EVB2929400: Los Angeles, 'Angels Flight', the last remaining cable railway in the City of Los Angeles. It is significant both because of this and because of its nature as a landmark, so designated by the Cultural Heritage Board of Los Angeles. Built ca 1901, Third & Hill Streets, California, photograph by Jack E. Boucher, c.1960s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929406: Los Angeles, Pan Pacific Auditorium, the structure achieves not just the styling of the great streamlined World's Fairs of the 1930's, but their festivity and sophistication as well. The entrance pylons are scaled to give the building an impressiveness beyond actual size. Burned to the ground in 1989, 1600 Beverly Boulevard, California, photograph 1980s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929010: Taconic State Parkway, Shenandoah Service Station, the highway represents an important development in the evolution of American transportation planning. Constructed in 1931, conceived in the 1920s during America's parkway-building boom, photograph c.1990s, Poughkeepsie, New York / Bridgeman Images
EVB2930266: Children playing a dice game, from original caption: 'Midnight, Newsboys shooting craps near Post Office. Been playing here at craps for an hour. Flash-light photo,' Providence, Rhode Island, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, November 23, 1912, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images