Renegade map master the 59 King offers up his Big Maps Blog chock full of procrastination-inducing maps and bird's eye lithographs of Los Angeles in the olden days, when streets streamed trolley cars and the river ran free. A Los Angeles map dating from 1877 includes a view of Brooklyn H[e]ights--what?--now usually considered part of Boyle Heights, and a city that is more pastoral village than sprawling metropolis, with a handy legend that notes such creatively designated buildings as Jewish Church and Catholic Cathedral. [Big Map Blog]
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