Time travel: Century City, 1968

By Kevin Roderick | October 26, 2012 1:49 PM

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This looks south down Avenue of the Stars from Santa Monica Boulevard, toward Pico Boulevard. The Century Plaza Hotel stood mostly by itself then. The former 20th Century Fox studio backlot began to be developed in 1963.

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