This photo lets us see what Los Angeles’s Broadway looked like in the first decade of the new century. As we can see, the two main ways of getting around town are horse-and-carriage and the streetcar. The one in the foreground was coming from Boyle Heights, which lays just east of downtown. This photo was taken in 1905 so the days of horse-drawn transport were numbered. Ten years later, most of them would be gone…and so would the smell and mess that accompanied them. Mind you, the motor cars would bring their own kind of smells and messes, wouldn’t they?
This photo lets us see what Los Angeles’s Broadway looked like in the first decade of the new century. As we can see, the two main ways of getting around town are horse-and-carriage and the streetcar. The one in the foreground was coming from Boyle Heights, which lays just east of downtown. This photo was taken in 1905 so the days of horse-drawn transport were numbered. Ten years later, most of them would be gone…and so would the smell and mess that accompanied them. Mind you, the motor cars would bring their own kind of smells and messes, wouldn’t they?
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