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Tuesday Tube: Bunker Hill in Downtown L.A. 1940s and Today

The New Yorker's YouTube channel has a clever new video that lines up 1940s film footage on downtown L.A.'s Bunker Hill with contemporary video. It is a great peek into the heyday of L.A. transit, and, frankly, the anti-urban results of late 20th Century "urban renewal."

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7th Street then and now - part of A Fare to Remember up now at El Pueblo. Images via PERHS website.
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If readers enjoy that video, plan to catch a similar series of still photo juxtapositions in the "A Fare to Remember" show at El Pueblo's new El Tranquillo Gallery at 634 N. Main Street in downtown L.A., located right next to La Golondrina Restaurant on Olvera Street. The free exhibition is open now through July 28. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Details at Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society.

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