A ride through 1940s Los Angeles

Take a ride through 1940s Los Angeles in this rare archival footage captures Bunker Hill, the broad streets of a growing city, and the everyday rhythm of cars, trolleys, and pedestrians moving through a different era:

Sources

Footage: A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s — courtesy of Prelinger Archives. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. (No changes made.)

Notes

Read our history snapshot about the Pony Express.


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