[dbeechum]

This is a piece of LA that's long, long gone - a 1940's film of a drive through the Bunker Hill section of downtown LA. Not 20 years later, that whole section - all those old queen anne houses were ripped down and roads buried and churned to create the foundation of LA's modern skyscraper zone.

http://blogging.la/2011/09/09/baby-lets-cruise-1940s-bunker-hill/

[MrNate]

Can't help but think of Steve Martin in LA Story... "Some of them literally decades old!" 

[nicneufeld]

Dining guide to LA in 1941:
http://lileks.com/misc/la41/index.html

And in '62:
http://lileks.com/misc/key62/index.html

Interesting stuff!

[dbeechum]

Sad to see how many of those places are gone (over 95% of them)