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What is Street Scenes?

(Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)




Southern California is a vast land of neighborhoods. Drive Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles, for example, and you'll encounter industrial blocks, the garment district, Koreatown, West L.A. bungalows and the burgeoning entertainment district at the eastern end of Santa Monica. But most of us don't spend time driving from neighborhood to neighborhood--so L.A. Times photographers have done it for us, highlighting a variety of neighborhoods, ranging from the Fairfax District to Newport Harbor.

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