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Photos and movies of the Aliso Street Manufactured Gas Plant are challenging to locate.This assemblage confirms my belief that nearly all visual recordings that may show the Aliso MGP throughout its operational timeframe of 1867 through 1947 have been destroyed or hidden to ensure the record of the operations of this manufactured gas plant are never to be seen.At 00:40 as the car moves east on Macy Street past Alameda Street you can see the rail cars to the right, and a short few frames of a long shot looking southeast where you can see the Aliso Street MGP gas generator smokestacks (12?), the compressor building, the 6 tall tanks split into two sets of 3 tanks.Inexplicably, as the camera heads east on Macy Street towards the LA River the film jump cuts to the corner of Keller and Aliso Street taking a righ turn on Aliso heading roughly westbound towards LA city hall. Missing is most of the street areas bordering the Aliso Street MGP from Macy St. and Vignes, Macy St. and Keller, Keller to Aliso Street. Once at the intersection of Aliso Street, the Aliso St. MGP gasholders are in frame directly in front of camera car. As the car turns west on Aliso it crosses a bridge, Aliso Street LA River bridge?, continuing past the Aliso MGP.No street side visuals of the Aliso St. MGP are shown, adding to my belief that all visual evidence of the Aliso St. MGP is now lost to time by an effort to erase any historical evidence of Aliso St. MGP while in operation, and visual evidence of how the Aliso St. MGP grew from a small three building structure to a gargantuan Synthetic Rubber production plant sprawled across the 64 acre plot between Union Station and the Los Angeles River.