TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Don Neff has worked in Southern California off and on since 1956. He made his way out the San Bernardino Freeway for this report:
EVEN its defenders admit that El Monte is an eyesore, a blur of suburban sprawl 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Its boundaries meander without obvious aim or purpose. Tiny houses, usually stucco and rarely worth more than $30,000, are jumbled together with tacky businesses along its dismal streets. Some 70,000 people call it home, but only a city father could love it. "This is...
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