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Originally Posted by sopas ej
Wow, more great photos yet again.
I've been staring at this for a while now. This is terrific, gsjansen. To think this picture was taken 100 years ago already. I'm particularly interested in the bottom part of the photo, you can see that diagonal block-long street which was originally called Weller Street, in the middle of Little Tokyo. That street is now of course Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street, and the block and the blocks around it have changed quite a lot since then. In fact a LOT of things shown in this photo have changed since then. It's interesting to see what still exists. Really fascinating.
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And, of course Weller Street was the unofficial shortcut favored by stagecoach drivers trying for an advantage in the race from San Pedro to the Bella Union Hotel back in the 1850's. Rather than wait and make the 90 degree turn at 1st, a spontaneous and informal roadway was cut into the plot of land and a street was born.