The Hill Street Tunnels, looking north on Hill Street from First
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1954-2014 Like many of the city's early public works projects, the Hill Street Tunnels provided a solution to one of Los Angeles' greatest topographic obstacles to regional mobility, the hills at Downtown's northwestern edge. While of most of them had been covered by the street grid by the turn of the 20th century, their steep…
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Historic Western & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel & Museum, Official Georgia Tourism & Travel Website
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56 Boyle Heights / Los Angeles ideas boyle heights, los angeles, vintage los angeles
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phdonohue: View North from Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles September 21 1985 John Humble
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