Before there were movie stars and studio lots, Hollywood Hills mansions with million-dollar views, before automobiles and freeways, rows of iconic palm trees silhouetted along the horizon, urban sprawl, City Hall and the Watts Towers, there was this LA. It was already bustling with people, horses and carriages, streetcars, hotels and tourists. This was taken near the corner of Spring and 2nd Streets in 1895 in what we now think of as downtown, but for the Angelenos frozen in this image this was Los Angeles.
Before there were movie stars and studio lots, Hollywood Hills mansions with million-dollar views, before automobiles and freeways, rows of iconic palm trees silhouetted along the horizon, urban sprawl, City Hall and the Watts Towers, there was this LA. It was already bustling with people, horses and carriages, streetcars, hotels and tourists. This was taken near the corner of Spring and 2nd Streets in 1895 in what we now think of as downtown, but for the Angelenos frozen in this image this was Los Angeles.
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