1912: Looking east on 103rd Street toward the Pacific Electric Railway station.
1920: A couple gets married in the front yard of the groom’s family home on 111th Street near Compton Avenue.
1938: The Golden Eagles, a minor league professional baseball team from Watts. The coach recruited from the Negro league.
1942: The Pacific Electric depot in Watts. The depot was the only structure on 103rd Street not damaged during the 1965 Watts Riots.
1948: Simon Rodia single-handedly built the Watts Towers over 34 years, from 1921 to 1954.
1952: Dancing around the maypole at the 700-unit Jordan Downs Housing Project.
1960: Children line up for a matinee at the Largo Theater on 103rd Street.
1965: Lee Benson of the 184 Infantry stands with his rifle during the Watts Riots, watching for snipers.
1965: A police officer looks at Bruce Williams, shot during the Watts Riots.
1965: Firemen fight a blaze at a building that once housed a liquor store, chop suey restaurant and jeweler, while police with rifles stand guard.
1967: Young people wait to fill out applications for the Watts Community Conservation Corps. Founder Ted Watkins stands in the forefront.
1966: A young couple dances in the street at the first Watts Festival.
1966: A young couple dances in the street at the first Watts Festival. Thousands turned out for the carnival-like event.
1977: Bill Coggins and 4-year-old Annabell Ratcliff officially open the Watts Counseling and Learning Center.
1989: Watts mothers picket Motown Records to urge black entertainers and athletes to help keep children off drugs and out of gangs.
2001: A grandmother and her grandchildren celebrate the Fourth of July in Ozzie Gonzales housing project. Today Latinos make up 62 percent of the population in Watts.
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