Don't know if any of you guys have had a chance to read this, it’s an interesting recent NYT article about the LA river that has some old photos of it:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...290eda09ba4d13
By the way, inside the comments section is a link to another lengthy nugget worth reading…:
An old Olmsted family plan for the LA River (and beyond):
http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPG...les_region.pdf