Urban Diachrony<\/strong><\/a> I found this pair of images showing the Hill Street Tunnels, looking north on Hill Street from First Street in 1954 and 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The-Hill-Street-Tunnels-looking-north-on-Hill-Street-from-First-Street-1954-2014.jpg?resize=606%2C777&ssl=1\")
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Some intrepid early motorist was keen to nab the bragging rights of being the first person to drive through the Hill St Tunnels in downtown Los Angeles in September 1913. From what we can see in this photo, the tunnel … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-24165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-downtown-los-angeles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-6hL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24175,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions\/24175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Some intrepid early motorist was keen to nab the bragging rights of being the first person to drive through the Hill St Tunnels in downtown Los Angeles in September 1913. From what we can see in this photo, the tunnel was far from being finished. I can\u2019t imagine the suspension on that automobile was great (or even existed) so that would have been one heck of a bumpy ride.<\/p>\n