7th Street is a street in Los Angeles, California running from S. Norton Ave in Mid-Wilshire through Downtown Los Angeles. It goes all the way to the eastern city limits at Indiana Ave., and the border between Boyle Heights, Los Angeles and East Los Angeles.
7th Street Looking West from Spring, Los Angeles, Calif. (Tichnor Bros. postcard, 1930s)
1907, west along 7th from Main
1915, opening of J. W. Robinson's new flagship
1917, west along 7th from Broadway
Broadway, until 1890 Fort Street, is a thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The portion of Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets, in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, was the city's main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II, and is the location of the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
Broadway looking north towards the historic Theater and Commercial District from Hoxton Hotel Roof (11th St.), September 2020
Los Angeles Theatre
Broadway and Seventh, looking north (1914)
Broadway Tunnel at Fort Moore Hill, built 1901, southern entrance at (lower right), with Los Angeles High School which stood on Fort Moore Hill 1891–1917 (upper left)