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Describing downtown La Puente in 1910, A. G. Olabaugh, owner of the Puente Lumber Yard wrote: “Grass grew in the middle of Main Street, and there were wide ruts where the wheels of wagons had worn away the grass. The town was unlighted, and flocks of sheep were driven freely through the streets.”
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