This shot is downtown Los Angeles looking northeast from 1^st Street on top of what I assume is Bunker Hill. It was taken on around 1887 and is hard to believe that downtown L.A. ever looked like this. Of course, in 1887, it wasn’t “downtown Los Angeles” – it was simply “Los Angeles” because that’s all there was. The “outer suburbs” of Angelino Heights” and Lincoln Heights” were only just starting to become developed.