Hard to believe this dirt intersection is now the heart of the tourist world.

Before the gridlock, there was just the open valley.

LA River Drag Racing in the 1950s

Hollywood’s very first grocery store, 1903 — the moment everything was still quiet.

Before the bridges, before the skyline — San Francisco in 1865, breathing again.

A quiet moment in Buenos Aires, 1933 — frozen in time, now breathing again.

Montebello, 1928 — a warm afternoon brought back from the dust of time.

Malibu 1923