Follow the link above to a page of street and highway images of Los Angeles and Southern California from 1918 or so, until the early 1950s. By the time Chandler was fired from his VP position he had lived in Los Angeles for 21 years, in many different neighborhoods. In the 1930s, while teaching himself to write pulp detective fiction, he rambled the streets and highways of Los Angeles. I was lucky enough to get 78 vintage Foster & Kleiser images of those streets and highways. So here they are, with other street images. This is the Los Angeles Raymond Chandler saw as he drove our streets and highways. |