Los Angeles history–Nuestro Pueblo

The hanging tree

Once described as the oldest rubber tree on the American continent, it was actually an Australian fig … maybe. Either way, it’s gone now. And the rustlers who were supposedly hanged here must have been awfully short because the branches are low. 

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2015 Long Beach Ave. in 1938 and, below, via Google maps’ street view.

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