Hello, I’m your new Friday polotocs thread host. You will now be bombarded by old LA times front pages. They will be semi-random, often either things I’m interested in or things that catch my eye.

Today’s front page, the Los Angeles Flood of 1938. Total of about 100+ fatalities. March 4, 1938. Just in case this isn’t readable, here’s a high quality link on Imgur

Little tidbit: The locally famous Bridge to Nowhere, a bridge that no longer connects to any highways, exists because the flooding wiped out the newly build highway. Nature really said, “Ban cars”

We now know this rainfall and subsequent flooding was due to El niño