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Abandoning Fig: The High Cost of Cartographic Uncertainty
In September 1890 members of the Board of Public Works took a tour of the city. In the vicinity of Pico Boulevard, where Pearl met Figueroa, a discussion started about “opening Figueroa through.” The tour goers noted that the street stopped abruptly and claimed not to know “how it became obliterated and appropriated as private […]