1970 Press Photo Cement replicas of prehistoric animals in Los Angeles Park Lake

Cement replicas of prehistoric animals in Los Angeles Park Lake. Huge mammoths with great curved tusks and ferocious saber-tooth tigers once roamed over what is now busy Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Pre-historic hunters in animal skins once stalked wolves, birds and other prey there. Only a few hundreds feet from where the bustling thoroughfare is now, there was an inviting pool of water. But it covered a pit of soft tar that proved to be a death trap for people and animals that came to drink and find their prey.

Photo is dated 1970.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8.25 inches.