A History of Los Angeles' Clock Towers and Where to Find Their Remnants | Lost LA | Food & Discovery

In the mid-1800s, public clocks served as type of civic authority as they centralized the town's time while introducing the idea of organizing days around the hours and minutes of clock time.

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