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Old Posted Jun 27, 2018, 12:57 PM
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Been puzzling on this one for a while. The unusual street alignment (<) suggests York Blvd. and Alumni Ave. in Eagle Rock (which would put Occidental College in the fuzzy right edge of the scan) , but it is a challenge to make the perspective work.Here's *kind of* from where the shot would had to have been taken (I suspect zoom lens distortion is adding to my confusion). Not sure it really works.
You're not the only one who's been stumped by this one, ScottyB. I think you've found a good match for the street layout, but the buildings seen
in the 1948 (the year written on the back of e_r's photo) aerial below aren't the ones in the image above. I guess the search continues...


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