During the 1980s I saw what I now know are vestiges of the communities wiped out by the 10 freeway – modest homes with multi-generational LatinX families in the midst of the light industrial buildings that lined the freeway after it was built. I also had no idea of the history growing up, as I’m sure was intended.
You’ll see something similar along Sawtelle, the Japanese-American community of which was decimated when they were deported during WWII. The area is now very expensive real estate populated by high-end resturants and shops (some with a Japanese theme) but here and there you’ll see a plant-and-tree nursery that looks frozen in time.
