When Steven Siegel stumbled upon a junkyard in Jersey City in the late 1980s, he found what he calls a "photographer's paradise." Amid the scrap metal and other debris was a veritable subway car ...

For decades, piles of windows, doors, skylights, and all the ruins of old L.A. landmarks ended up at Acme Wrecking in South L.A. But in 1971, the sprawling junkyard was remade into an auto parts ...