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The Port of Los Angeles, what a mess. Though others would call it progress.
The Port ran riot with industry. Steamships and sailing freighters sat so close in the harbor that a person might hop from one to the next and never risk getting wet. The steamships coughed out clouds of smoke and the railway engines did, too. Railroad tracks ringed the docks like manacles.