Aerial view of the La Brea Tar Pits along Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, circa 1924
In this circa 1924 aerial view of the La Brea Tar Pits (looking from the north, so that’s 6th Street along the bottom and Wilshire Blvd along the top) we can see that by the mid-1920s, quite a few houses have started to fill in all that empty land south of Wilshire. But north of 6th Street would still have been punctuated with oil wells too valuable to replace with housing. (After WWII, that area would become the Park La Brea housing complex.) Meanwhile, in the middle, those tar pits keep bubbling away.
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I’m curious about the structures on the right side of the image. Are those farm buildings or outbuildings? They can’t be the Rancho LaBrea Adobe. That’s up at The Grove and I can’t imagine it could have been moved.
Hi peu-doh, they do look like estates with large grounds, don’t they? But once this section of Wilshire Blvd was developed as a commercial corridor rebranded as the Miracle Mile, that was probably the end of them.