Marsak’s dedication has paid off: “Los Angeles Before the Freeways” is an engrossing collection of black-and-white images of a city in which old adobe ... while City Hall hovers like a ...

The vandalism and graffiti stretched out block after block across downtown Los Angeles: 'Remove Trumps head!!' was scrawled ...

Nathan Marsak, who spent years getting the rights to reissue Arnold Hylen's book filled with his photographs of the city on the cusp of change, estimates 98% of the buildings depicted are now gone.