[QUOTE=tovangar2;5950810]What an utter disaster. It looks like a war zone.
1924 was a bit of an iffy year for LA:
L.A. THEN AND NOW
It started with a dead rat in a poor neighborhood near downtown. Not two months later, 37 people had died from the plague.
March 05, 2006|Cecilia Rasmussen | Times Staff Writer
DO NOT miss these photos:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=...doc.view=items
A thankless task at the 1924 LA plague lab:
One of your pictures was the rat lab on 8th Street:
online archive of california
And it is still there...looking pretty original!
Google Street View
The windows are still open on the second floor...trying to let the dead rat stink out, no doubt.