Stills: Broadway and Seventh St., 1905-1958 1905: Looking North along Broadway from roof of Lankership Hotel In 1905 an unknown photographer shot a 9-frame pananorama from the roof of the Lankershim Hotel (no longer extant). The author has stitched the panorama together. This page examines details from the original frames. c 1930s: Looking Southwest across intersection of Broadway and 7th. Archival caption: "Loew State Building (Loew State Theatre) at the Southwest corner of Seventh Street and Broadway. Security for an S. W. Strauss & Co. bond issue of $2,250,000. Further down Seventh St. (heading west), the Spreckels Bldg. can be seen. Many streetcars can be seen operating here as thousands crowd into the theatre." University of Southern California, IDA-LA Digital Archives "Dick" Whittington Collection. c 1930s: Looking South along Broadway from the Northeast corner of Seventh Archival Description: "Crowds gather outside the Loew's State Theater at the corner of S. Broadway and W. 7th St. in Downtown Los Angeles. Also in view are the Isaacs Building, Marshall Field & Co., Chicago Wholesale Dry Goods, Johnson Rass Co., Wholesale Millinery, Machin Shirt Co., Clayburgh Bros. Woolens at 745 S. Broadway, a dentist's office at 706 S. Spring, and the Hotel Lankershim. Seventh and Broadway was also a busy junction for the Pacific Electric Railway, with southbound cars leaving on the San Diego Coast Route, stopping at Whittier, Santa Ana, Oceanside, and La Jolla. Westbound trains along Wilshire Blvd. head towards the Santa Monica Bay District and Beach Road North." University of Southern California, IDA-LA Digital Archives "Dick" Whittington Collection. 1958: Looking Southwest across intersection of Broadway and Seventh Archival caption: "A high-angle view of the entire corner of 7th street and Broadway crowded with people and cars with The State Theater in the background." University of Southern California, IDA-LA Digital Archives Hearst Collection, 1958. View Entire County Note: Highways are shown for reference