AERIAL PHOTOS on this and succeeding pages illustrate growth and development of historic 

 Rancho La Brea from rolling fields to a teeming metropolitan area typifying the highest class 

 residential and business areas. Opposite, above, is a portion of the rancho as it appeared 

 in 1922, looking northeastward across the intersection of Wilshire and La Brea Boulevards. 

 Below it is an aerial view of the same district taken nine years later, on March 15, 1931. The 

 same intersection looms prominently in the central foreground. Westward, toward the left 

 foreground, begins the famed "Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard. The photograph above 

 looks northwestward across part of the rancho from the intersection of Third Street and Ross- 

 more Avenue. It was taken in 1922, showing intermediate development of the tract. Schools 

 have been erected, streets and improvements laid out, and residential building has begun. 



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