Looking south on Spring Street extension, 1931
Very, (very) interesting image looking south on the under-construction extension of Spring Street from Temple Street (in the middle distance) to Sunset Boulevard
(just behind the camera). This will complete the Spring Street realignment which started in 1927 from 1st Street to Temple (to allow for the erection of the new City
Hall, dimly seen here left-center background) and now, in 1931, with this extension through to Sunset Boulevard. The north portal of the Broadway tunnel is just out-
of-frame to the right. The east slope of Fort Moore Hill has been excavated and reshaped (center-right) and Justicia Street, which had traversed the shoulder of Fort
Moore Hill, has been lost. New Hall of Justice is seen background right (followed by a shoulder of the 1888 County Courthouse and the 1910 Hall of Records), new
roadbed has swept away the old City Jail and the old Hall of Justice. Building on the left is one of several Brunswig Drug Company outbuildings. Prudent Beaudry's
house (501 New High Street) had been just beyond this Brunswig building. It has just been torn down.
USC Digital/California Historical Society/C.C. Pierce Collection