Signiotics

Signs, billboards, posters, murals, graffiti, handbills, etc. Lots of et cetera.

Dec7

gunsandposes: “Two LAPD officers, R. T. Barret (L) and W. A. Smith patrol the streets in Little Tokyo the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tanako Co. is the store directly to the right of officer Barrett; other Little Tokyo buildings and businesses are seen throughout the background of the image. Photo dated: December 8, 1941.” [Los Angeles Public Library]

gunsandposes:

“Two LAPD officers, R. T. Barret (L) and W. A. Smith patrol the streets in Little Tokyo the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tanako Co. is the store directly to the right of officer Barrett; other Little Tokyo buildings and businesses are seen throughout the background of the image. Photo dated: December 8, 1941.”

[Los Angeles Public Library]

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