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Remember Barnes City in West LA? Probably not — it left town with the circus

Cato Hernández
  • L.A. County has 88 cities, but do you know about the ones that didn’t survive?
  • Barnes City was originally a home to a popular circus. But it ended up splitting a westside neighborhood.
  • Before the city formed in 1926, it was the home base of Al G. Barnes’ immensely popular wild animal circus and zoo.
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