The Los Angeles we see in this photo is unrecognizable from the LA we know today. The year was 1887 so that electric streetcar we see amid the horse-drawn carriages would have been a brand-new sight for the Angelenos captured in this photo. The large building on the left is the Hamburger &Sons department store before it outgrew that location and moved to its Broadway and 8^th Street location 21 years later. Today this view takes in the iconic Los Angeles City Hall building on the left, which means whereHamburger’s was is now Grand Park.