Power company photographs capture the spread of electricity in the 1940s
The decade Los Angeles really lit up : Power company photographs capture the spread of electricity in the 1940s
The City of Los Angeles has grown more than any major metropolitan city in America since the beginning of the twentieth century.
In 1900, the city Angels had little over 100,000 people but it wasn't until people moved west, especially after World War II, the population in the Los Angeles area really exploded.
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As electricity expanded it also played a vital role in creating and expanding the infrastructure.
Edison Company photographers also documented the process, leaving a vast archive of photos that reveal the interiors of businesses, restaurants, nightclubs,hotels and other architectural gems of early Los Angeles.
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ONLINE EXHIBITION - Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990
http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary_02.aspx?id=12926
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The "Online Exhibition" sucked away a couple hours of my life, what with comparing some of the buildings with their current iterations in Google Earth. 
