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The Hollywood Freeway under construction, 1955.

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“Three O’Clock in the Morning” - the neon-festooned gate of New Chinatown burning brightly, 1942.

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High above Sunset Boulevard, looking north towards Micheltorena Street in Silver Lake, 1932.

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The Echo Park Avenue streetcar on its rounds through the neighborhood, circa 1945.

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The Egyptian Theatre and the original Pig N Whistle, Hollywood, 1942.

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A tour bus and its uniformed driver outside the gates of the Luna Park Zoo in Lincoln Heights, 1928.

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Echo Park, 1904: A line of cars drive north along the trolley tracks on unpaved Glendale Boulevard, heading towards Sunset.

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L.A. City Hall as viewed from Main Street, 1943.

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Destination: Hollywood Boulevard. A Pacific Electric streetcar exits the Belmont Tunnel on its way to Tinseltown, Los Angeles, 1938.

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Bird’s eye view of Los Angeles, California, circa 1888.

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Map of the City of Los Angeles Showing Railway Systems (1906)

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The old Los Angeles Examiner’s headquarters on Broadway, near 5th Street, 1890. In 1914 the paper would move to its landmark Julia Morgan-designed building 6 blocks south.

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A Yellow Car on the Los Angeles Railway #3 line, which ran up Larchmont Boulevard to Melrose Avenue, 1931.

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The neon-drenched Mark C. Bloome gas station and tire store at Sunset Boulevard and El Centro Avenue in Hollywood, 1943.

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Stately old Central Park - now Pershing Square - in downtown Los Angeles in the 1900s.

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The Art Deco Sears Building in Boyle Heights, near the end of a breakneck 6-month construction sprint in 1927.

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A six-year-old newsie hawking broadsheets almost as big as he is, downtown Los Angeles, 1915.

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