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Watch a Split-Screen of What L.A. Streets Looked Like Now vs 70 Years Ago [VIDEO]

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What’s the difference between driving in Downtown Los Angeles today vs. in the mid-twentieth century?

A short film created by Keven McAlester for the New Yorker takes viewers on a journey through L.A. in a time before MOCA and the Walt Disney Concert Hall ever existed, back to the days when Bunker Hill was transitioning from a neighborhood of luxury mansions and hotels to a hub of working class residents and immigrants living in sub-divided, low-income units.

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The film, entitled Seventy Years of Los Angeles, Then and Now, uses a split screen to compare vintage footage from the 1940’s of driving through the Bunker Hill and other parts of DTLA vs. contemporary footage taken along the same route.

Give it a watch below.

via YouTube / The New Yorker

Virginia Isaad is an L.A.-based journalist who has written for Los Angeles magazine and Angeleno magazine among others. She's lived in the San Fernando Valley since she was five and loves exploring DTLA as much as a day spent at the beach in Malibu. Follow her @virginiaisaad

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