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Originally Posted by FredH
I was cruising around Baist's 1921 Real Estate Atlas (thank you ProphetM) and I came across this cemetery on
North Broadway next to the Southern Pacific Rail Yard.
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I found these photographs on an old cd of mine. Most of the images on the disk were from calisphere so I'm guessing these were too.
"The Workmen Monument in the old Catholic Cemetery of the Pueblo Los Angeles on North Broadway." Shown in 1925 shortly before the cemetery's desecration.
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Note the makeshift wood & chicken-wire fence. (and the severe ground erosion at right)
below: The
overgrown old Calvary Cemetery on North Broadway in 1920.
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below: The Pico Family Tomb in the old Calvary Cemetery on North Broadway.
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below: The old Calvary Cemetery in complete disrepair, date unknown.
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I can easily visualize the three boys desecrating the tomb of Capt. Bell in 1921.
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