This photo was taken in October of 2016
(This photo was taken by me from the Broadway Bridge over the Los Angeles River)
This photo was taken in 1987
(Second and third photos were taken from the same spot as the first photo, 30 years apart.)
This photo was taken in 1957
(Second and third photos were taken by William Reagh who took 40,000 photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California from the 1930s until 1991, chronicling a time of huge change in the cityscape and the people of LA. )