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Images and Memories of Los Angeles | 1953 vs. 2021 - Looking at the SE corner of Spring and 1st streets where today stands the LAPD Headquarters | Facebook
Images and Memories of Los Angeles | 1953 vs. 2021 - Looking at the SE corner of Spring and 1st streets where today stands the LAPD Headquarters | Facebook
View from atop Crown Hill, c.1886
Los Angeles Past -year is around 1886, and we're looking south toward what would become Long Beach from the present site of Belmont High School, near the intersection of Beverly Blvd. and Glendale Blvd. In the far distance at right is the still-recognizable profile of the Palos Verdes peninsula. What today is solid cityscape was then nothing but sparsely-settled open rangeland as far as the eye could see