{"id":13738,"date":"2017-11-26T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2017-11-26T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T16:06:24","slug":"la-brea-tar-pits-on-wilshire-boulevard-los-angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/11\/26\/la-brea-tar-pits-on-wilshire-boulevard-los-angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924-2\/","title":{"rendered":"La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles as seen from the air, circa 1924"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13739\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/11\/26\/la-brea-tar-pits-on-wilshire-boulevard-los-angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924-2\/la-brea-tar-pits-on-wilshire-boulevard-los-angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/La-Brea-Tar-Pits-on-Wilshire-Boulevard-Los-Angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924.jpg?fit=564%2C444&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"564,444\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles as seen from the air, circa 1924\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/La-Brea-Tar-Pits-on-Wilshire-Boulevard-Los-Angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924.jpg?fit=300%2C236&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/La-Brea-Tar-Pits-on-Wilshire-Boulevard-Los-Angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924.jpg?fit=564%2C444&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13739\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/La-Brea-Tar-Pits-on-Wilshire-Boulevard-Los-Angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924.jpg?resize=564%2C444&ssl=1\" alt=\"La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles as seen from the air, circa 1924\" width=\"564\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/La-Brea-Tar-Pits-on-Wilshire-Boulevard-Los-Angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924.jpg?w=564&ssl=1 564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/La-Brea-Tar-Pits-on-Wilshire-Boulevard-Los-Angeles-as-seen-from-the-air-circa-1924.jpg?resize=300%2C236&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/>These are the La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Boulevard as seen from the air, circa 1924. This stretch of Wilshire is now known as the Miracle Mile so it\u2019s hard to imagine the land cratered with bubbling pits of tar (“la brea” is Spanish for \u201cthe tar\u201d) but in this aerial photo, you can see some of them\u2014as well as the oil derricks scattered across the land now taken up with the Park La Brea housing development.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Boulevard as seen from the air, circa 1924. 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