Los Angeles was a very different place when Ansel Adams looked at it through his camera lens in the 1940s. The sprawling town was changing on an almost daily basis as new developments sprung up around the valley, but underneath it all, there still remained some of the charms of the city from an era that was starting to fade. Old diners, used car lots, and the oil wells tapping the vast reserves underneath the city.
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