Downtown Los Angeles at the turn of the 20th century, in living Photocrom color...
Library of Congress
The full-resolution image is available here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...les_17897u.jpg
Completely unrecognizable from how it looks today, isn't it? All that change, from then 'til now, took place in only 1-1/2 normal human lifespans. It almost defies imagination...
-Scott