View of housing development areas in Santa Monica Canyon and Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, 1928

Description

View across Santa Monica Canyon towards Pacific Palisades. A sign in the foreground reads: "This is picturesque Santa Monica Canyon, mountains, country, sea shore. For vacant and improved property see Albert Leonard, 4th and Wilshire Blvd., phone 21627, Santa Monica." A sign across the canyon in the background reads "The California [Riviera]," a Pacific Palisades housing development initiated in the 1920's., Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1928, Santa Monica Canyon, 9/82, 5 1979, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.