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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson

Looking northeast into Lincoln Heights from Elysian Park, ca.1920

Lincoln Heights looking east from Elysian Park, showing a pigeon farm perhaps as early as 1920. Eight long coops for housing the pigeons are situated in the foreground,
next to the silt from the Los Angeles River-bed to the left. Knowing the early history of periodic violent overflows one wouldn't view this operation as having long term potential.
An overpass carries Dayton Street (will later become Figueroa Street) into Lincoln Heights. A second pigeon farm is visible upper left. Southern tip of S.P. Taylor Yard is seen.

USC digital archive/California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Squab was quite popular in the early twentieth century. Now, not so much.

thanks MichaelRyerson! I suppose I should do my due diligence before firing from the hip about chickens.