After More Than 140 Years, A Massive Fig Tree Gracing The Plaza Where Los Angeles Was Founded Collapses

Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times: Local
Sat, 03/09/2019 - 6:00am

They were doing the line dance when what sounded like firecrackers split the air. Because the sound was to be expected at a Chinese lantern festival, no one immediately noticed the demise of a fig tree that for 144 years had watched skyscrapers built around it and a freeway carved out beside it;...

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