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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
When we were in the Crenshaw and 54th Street area a few days ago, I noticed this transportation hub at 54th and 2nd Street.
What first caught my eye was how S. Van Ness curves and merges with another street to avoid the lot.
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Here's an earlier view
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-note the two gas-o-meters in the distance. |
Diagonal road sections are often old streetcar routes, but not in this case. Here's the yard in 1954, when Arlington Avenue dead-ended at W 54th Street.
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By 1972, the new section of S Van Ness Place can be seen. The old streetcar tracks have gone, but the main buildings look the same.
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These are the replacement buildings in 2004 (which tends to be the sharpest of the recent Historic Aerials images).
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The gasometers in the background were south of Slauson on S St Andrews Place. We covered them in
post #22522.