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Old Posted Oct 26, 2011, 6:22 AM
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City Produce Market

On page 96, etheral reality posted this picture of the City Produce Market from back around 1900:


USC

This is my old neighborhood. Take a look at these two buildings in the picture:


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The building in front (the one under construction) was the Produce Exchange Building and the one in the back has a sign which I believe says Towne Produce Co.

These two buildings are still there and look like this today:


Google Street View

Here is the neighborhood today:


Bing Maps

Number 1 is the area where the wagons were parked. This building is now the Little Tokyo Shopping Center (better known as the Yaohan Plaza).

Number 2 is the old Produce Exchange Building, which was constructed about 1908.

Number 3 is the old Town Produce Co., built around 1906.

Number 4 is where I worked for 20 years when it was Modernage Photo Service. An interesting fact is that the description on the property tax records for the building is Wolfskill Orchard Tract. I believe that Third Street was the northern boundary of the tract.
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