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Spectators watch as an arson fire burns through a deserted building in the old business district where numerous fires hastened the neighborhood's decline.

Tiffany Anderson bathes in the late afternoon sun as her boyfriend, Herman Davis, stirs a crab boil for a party at a family member's house in LaVilla.

Outnumbered by the single males who make up most of the rooming house residents, a few families are trying to raise their children in the remains of the neighborhood.

A row of gutted rooming houses awaits city demolitions as do most of the other structures in the neglected neighborhood.

Joe Johnson, the maintenance man for the Masonic Temple in LaVilla, sits inside the back door as lodge members greet each other after a founders day ceremony.

A family moves their possessions from a small house they rented in LaVilla after it was sold by its owner to the city.

A resident of LaVilla sits on the front steps of a vacant rooming house that is scheduled for demolition.

family photographs and mementos with a forgotten history fill an album found in a rooming house as it was being cleaned out for demolition.

Eighty-eight year old Exter Brill rests on the steps of her LaVilla home, where she has lived since 1943.

a Corinthian column on the Magnolia Apartments in LaVilla stands in contrast to the modern downtown architecture. The apartments have since been demolished.