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A traffic jam at the downtown L.A. intersection of Seventh and Broadway, circa 1920. Courtesy of the Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
In 1924, the downtown L.A. intersection of Seventh Street and Broadway was the busiest in the world with 504,000 people crossing those streets each day.
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Nori Takatani has worked at Anzen Hardware in Little Tokyo since 1954, while maintaining a winning side-career as a boxing manager.
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Specializing in enka and J-Pop, the upstairs music section of the long-standing gift shop has struggled for years to attract customers to its extensive collection.
Mines Field, known today as Los Angeles International Airport, circa 1930. Courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
The transportation hub has hardly stood still since it emerged from the bean fields of Westchester in the late 1920s.
Photo via Flickr user Alan Light
Chasen's was the hottest restaurant in town for decades: Shirley Temple and Donna Summer both made history there, 40 years apart.
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This summer's L.A. River kayak program is the culmination of years of hard work by river advocates.
Early view of Pasadena's Colorado Street Bridge, which opened in 1913 across the Arroyo Seco. Courtesy of the Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
Bridges tame the Southern California landscape for freight trains, light rail vehicles, and millions of private automobiles.
The Angels Flight steps up the eastern slope of Bunker Hill in 1962. Photo by George Mann, courtesy of Dianne Woods and the George Mann Archives.
Recently rediscovered photos shed new light on Bunker Hill, a downtown Los Angeles neighborhood razed in the name of urban renewal.
Automobile decorated for a Fourth of July Parade in Compton, 1921. Courtesy of the South Bay Photograph Collection, CSUDH Archives.
As the region marks the nation's 236th birthday, join us for a look through historical images at how Southern Californians have observed the holiday in the past.
Incendiary Traces examines the role that real estate and the railroad played in the advertisement of Southern California as a fertile tropical utopia in the late 1800s.
Edward Vischer's pre-1875 drawing of El Aliso in the courtyard of the Vignes winery. Courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
El Aliso -- a massive, ancient sycamore -- stood at the center of the Tongva village of Yaanga and later shaded the cellars of early wine and beer makers.
Courtesy of the Map Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
Maps, legal contracts, and even two-hundred-year-old artillery make up this collection of items from around the region.
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