This photo gives us a bird’s-eye view of Pershing Square in 1926, back when it was a leafy green space giving Angelenos respite from the relentless Californian summer sun and the unremitting hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles. Back then, downtown was the epicenter of L.A. and the sidewalks and roads thrummed with activity all day long. Downtown L.A. needed more parking spaces and to put it under Pershing Square made a certain amount of sense, but what a shame that in the process we lost an oasis of calm and tranquility.
Out of curiosity, I tried one of those automatic coloring sites to see what this view might have looked for the person who took this photo. These sites don’t always do a good job (in fact, they rarely do) but I was quite impressed with this one:
This photo gives us a bird’s-eye view of Pershing Square in 1926, back when it was a leafy green space giving Angelenos respite from the relentless Californian summer sun and the unremitting hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles. Back then, downtown was the epicenter of L.A. and the sidewalks and roads thrummed with activity all day long. Downtown L.A. needed more parking spaces and to put it under Pershing Square made a certain amount of sense, but what a shame that in the process we lost an oasis of calm and tranquility.
Bring back all the trees!
All of them!
Hello Martin,
What site did you use for the color impression?
I used Image Colorization API
https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer