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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Below: A rare view looking northeast from the County Courthouse tower, circa 1900.
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I also wanted to point out a sobering fact.
There are only two structures visible in this photo that are still standing today. Everything else you see here is completely gone, as if it were literally scraped off the face of the earth. Other great old cities of the world have been destroyed by wars and disasters, but old Los Angeles was destroyed intentionally by its own government and citizenry in the name of "progress." No earthquake or other act of God could have destroyed historic Los Angeles as thoroughly as did the hand of man itself...
-Scott