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As of 2008, 257,975 Korean Americans lived in Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties, making up 25% of all of the Korean Americans. As of that year, over 46,000 Koreans lived in Koreatown, making up 20.1% of the residents there. Koreatown, in addition to Koreans, houses other ethnic groups.
The La Crescenta Woman's Club began in 1911, incorporated in 1923, and built its clubhouse in 1925. The structure, the social center of the valley for most of the last century, is the home for the organization's many charitable and social events. The La Crescenta Woman's Club is located at 4004 La Crescenta Avenue.
In 1948, the Los Angeles Times reported that Westminster Presbyterian Church paid $125,000 for the property being vacated by St. Paul's Presbyterian Church located at 2230 West Jefferson Boulevard. St. Paul's congregation was merging with Baldwin Hills Community Presbyterian Church and moving to the facility on La Brea Ave. and Coliseum Street.
Spaulding Square is named after California architect Albert Starr Spaulding, who purchased the area and subdivided it in 1914. It a neighborhood of modest homes built between 1916 and 1921. [ 1] Many of the early residents were actors and technicians from the movie industry. [ 2]
Elysian Heights started out as a summer getaway. [3] The neighborhood has been home to many of the counter-culture, political radicals, artists, writers, architects and filmmakers in Los Angeles. The children of many progressives attended school there during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. [4] [5] By the 1930s, it was known as Red Hill, for the ...
The six-acre property owned by Mary Ferrera, 80, of La Crescenta, and occupied by her son David, 50, is choked with more than 100 vehicles and trash and has been the subject of years of complaints ...
The Hollywood Theater opened on December 20, 1913, the second to open in Hollywood's emerging theater district. A 700-seat Nickelodeon, [1] it was owned by H.L. Lewis and designed in the Romanesque style by Kremple and Erkes.
Melrose Hill is located north of Melrose Avenue, south of Santa Monica Blvd., east of Western Avenue, and west of the Hollywood Freeway . The city of Los Angeles has installed neighborhood signs to mark the neighborhood boundaries, [3] with signs located at Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard, Western Avenue and Marathon Street and ...