Photograph by the Los Angeles Times

March 15, 1939: At a luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel to plan the opening gala for  Union Station, R.E. Southworth stamps the tickets of A.D. McDonald, president of the Southern Pacific; J.R. Hitchcock, manager of the board that supervised Union Station, and W.M. Jeffers, president of Union Pacific.

March 15, 1939: A huge park from Alameda to Spring Street is proposed across from Union Station.

How the area actually appears on Google Earth.

A 1926 document republished May 5, 1939, gives a different perspective on the long fight to build a union station.