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Scenes from the lost City of Angels. Curated by @SFGarner

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LAhistory@LAhistory1 Sep 2020
Angels Flight Railway (@AngelsFlight) is now open! angelsflight.org/ (cc: @funimag)

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We will be closed for filming on January 26. We will likely be closed all day. We will re-open on the 27th with our normal schedule. ANGELS FLIGHT® RAILWAY A Little History of the Angels Flight®...

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The Huntington@TheHuntington16 Aug 2020
Happy Birthday, Bukowski. The so-called "poet laureate of Los Angeles low-life" would have been 100 years old today. Learn more about this unconventional man over on the blog > bit.ly/3kEBjro #hbd #otd #CharlesBukowski
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Old L.A. Photos@OldLAPhotos23 Jul 2020
View down the track of Angels Flight tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/colle…
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Little Tokyo HS@LTHSnews2 Jul 2020
After Internment, a Store Was Born. It’s Still an L.A. Staple. | @NYTmag nytimes.com/2020/07/01/magaz… #DTLA #Bunkado #LittleTokyo

After Internment, a Store Was Born. It’s Still an L.A. Staple. (Published 2020)

Bunkado, a gift shop that opened in 1946 in Little Tokyo, tells the story of a Japanese-American family.

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📷 The Hollywood Freeway under construction, 1955.  tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2cOs7ec
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#TBT: Three men working on the 6th Street Bridge in 1932. Crazy to think that a new bridge is coming up soon in its place. #nostalgia
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Nathan Masters@nathanmasters11 Jan 2017
How the @LAPublicLibrary amassed a collection of 3.1 million historic photos of LA: kcet.org/shows/lost-la/how-t…
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📷 “Three O’Clock in the Morning” - the neon-festooned gate of New Chinatown burning brightly, 1942. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2G-5XOt
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“Three O’Clock in the Morning” - the neon-festooned gate of New Chinatown burning brightly, 1942.

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📷 High above Sunset Boulevard, looking north towards Micheltorena Street in Silver Lake, 1932. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2GyIaRd
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📷 The Echo Park Avenue streetcar on its rounds through the neighborhood, circa 1945. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2GpmlJn
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The Echo Park Avenue streetcar on its rounds through the neighborhood, circa 1945.

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📷 The Egyptian Theatre and the original Pig N Whistle, Hollywood, 1942. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2Gn1kV_
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The Egyptian Theatre and the original Pig N Whistle, Hollywood, 1942.

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📷 A tour bus and its uniformed driver outside the gates of the Luna Park Zoo in Lincoln Heights, 1928. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2GkGpxe
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📷 Echo Park, 1904: A line of cars drive north along the trolley tracks on unpaved Glendale Boulevard,... tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2GE3faC
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📷 L.A. City Hall as viewed from Main Street, 1943. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2G9CSh1
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📷 Destination: Hollywood Boulevard. A Pacific Electric streetcar exits the Belmont Tunnel on its way to... tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2G6Nr-_
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Destination: Hollywood Boulevard. A Pacific Electric streetcar exits the Belmont Tunnel on its way to Tinseltown, Los Angeles, 1938.

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📷 Bird’s eye view of Los Angeles, California, circa 1888. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2FyADfF
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Bird’s eye view of Los Angeles, California, circa 1888.

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Map of the city of Los Angeles Showing Railway Systems (1906) tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2FvcrzR
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Map of the City of Los Angeles Showing Railway Systems (1906)

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The old Los Angeles Examiner’s headquarters on Broadway, near 5th Street, 1890. tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2Ft5qDI
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KCET-TV@KCET14 Dec 2016
Photos: Many L.A. Boulevards Began as Trolley Lines bit.ly/2gJtxxo
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📷 A Yellow Car on the Los Angeles Railway #3 line, which ran up Larchmont Boulevard to Melrose Avenue,... tmblr.co/ZoRf4w2FqWpoe
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