A black-and-white view of the U.S. Post Office and City Hall in Los Angeles. The post office's long facade and vertical window bays fill the left foreground, while the City Hall tower rises on the right. Cars and pedestrians are visible on the surrounding streets.
The sender, a sailor on a 52-hour liberty, wrote of a sunny day warm enough to shed peacoats. Los Angeles was by then a major aircraft manufacturing center, and the civic center stood at the heart of a city busy with wartime industry and military personnel.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
1/3-45
Dear Folks - Here
on a 52 hour
liberty. Lovely
sunshiny day which
made us shed our
peacoats.
PostmarkedLos Angeles, CA, January 3, 1945, 19:00
Addressed to
Mrs Frank Harbour
318 - 11th St
OH
FromP.S. Jeff in CM 1/c USNR, CB*29. Co D. Plat 2, A.P.O. San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
White border; black-and-white real photo; light corner wear. Postmark: LOS ANGELES JAN 3 7 PM 1945 CALIF. (circular cancel; wavy flag cancel at right). Divided-back glossy real-photo card with white border. Stamp area marked 'Free' (free frank); no adhesive stamp. Vertical printed imprint along center: 'PUBLISHED BY FRASHERS, INC. POMONA, CALIF.' Light edge wear and slight soiling.
Cite this card
U.S. Post Office and City Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 1945, postcard, c. 1945. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/u-s-post-office-and-city-hall-los-angeles-ca-1945. Accessed November 2, 2026.
