Isabel Ponce leaves the San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel where she attended a baptism. In 14 years

Isabel Ponce leaves the San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel where she attended a baptism. In 14 years, the Mission City, as it's known, has seen remarkable population shift that began in the mid–1980s and brought an Asian majority to town by the year 2000. Along the way, the city has became divided between old and new, failure and success, north and south. While Asian entrepreneurs grew Valley Boulevard in the southern end of town into a robust slice of marketplace heaven, less than two miles to the north, the town's historic Mission District civic center began a slow decline. (Photo by Bryan Chan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)