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September 18, 2008 |  6:37 am

The hanging tree

Once described as the oldest rubber tree on the American continent, it was actually an Australian fig ... maybe. Either way, it's gone now. And the rustlers who were supposedly hanged here must have been awfully short because the branches are low. 

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2015 Long Beach Ave. in 1938 and, below, via Google maps' street view.

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