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The Twentieth Street Historic District is located in Central Los Angeles, southwest of the Downtown Los Angeles, in the West Adams neighborhood. It borders are: Washington Boulevard on the north, and Toberman and Oak Streets, on the west and east, respectively.
From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-43844-383-6. ISBN 1438443838; Vorspan, Max & Gartner, Lloyd (1970). History of the Jews of Los Angeles. Huntington Library. Wilson, Karen (2013). Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic. University of California Press.
Little Ethiopia is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles. It is known for its collection of Ethiopian restaurants , coffee shops, boutiques and thrift stores. [ 1 ]
Curacao (pronounced Koo-ra-sao), formerly La Curacao, is a large-format retail store chain and finance company with export, travel and money transfer services. [1] Founded in 1978, Curacao is headquartered in Los Angeles with retail locations in California, Arizona and Nevada. [2] The company operates under the legal name Adir International ...
Koreatown (Korean: 코리아타운, Koriataun) is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street. [2]Koreans began immigrating in larger numbers in the 1960s and found housing in the Mid-Wilshire area.
Spring Street in Los Angeles is one of the oldest streets in the city. Along Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles, from just north of Fourth Street to just south of Seventh Street is the NRHP-listed Spring Street Financial District, nicknamed Wall Street of the West, [2] [3] lined with Beaux Arts buildings and currently experiencing gentrification.
The Financial District was created by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency to provide an alternative to the old Spring Street Financial District, which fell into decline in the second half of the 20th century. Demand for apartments in downtown Los Angeles surged in 2010 and the years following.
Postcard, circa 1930 to 1945. In the early 1920s, Wilshire Boulevard west of Western Avenue was an unpaved farm road, extending through dairy farms and bean fields. Developer A. W. Ross saw potential for the area and developed Wilshire as a commercial district to rival downtown Los Angeles.