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Crenshaw. / 34.01810°N 118.34064°W / 34.01810; -118.34064. Crenshaw, or the Crenshaw District, is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, California. [ 2][ 3] In the post– World War II era, a Japanese American community was established in Crenshaw. African Americans started migrating to the district in the mid 1960s, and by the early ...
Brown Derby was a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, California. The first and best known was shaped like a derby hat, an iconic image that became synonymous with the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was opened by Wilson Mizner in 1926. [1] The chain was started by Robert H. Cobb and Herbert K. Somborn (a former husband of film star Gloria Swanson ...
Crenshaw Boulevard is a north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California, United States, that runs through Crenshaw and other neighborhoods along a 23-mile (37.76 km) route in the west-central part of the city. [1] Angeles Mesa Drive, as shown (7) on this 1927 Los Angeles Times map, was the original name of Crenshaw Boulevard south of Adams ...
9 was a streetcar line in Los Angeles, California. It was operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1932 to 1955. History. When the M Line was split up in 1932, the segments on 48th and 54th Streets were spun off into their own service: the 9 car. It ran from 48th and Crenshaw to 54th and Crenshaw, in a U-shaped routing via Downtown.
This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Emmy Awards gowns looked very different in the 1950s, '60s and '70s-- and the vintage snapshots are truly stunning. ... The first-ever Emmy ceremony was held in Los Angeles on January 25, 1949 ...
K Line (Los Angeles Metro) 55 mph (89 km/h) ( max.) The K Line is a 5.9-mile (9.5 km) [3] light rail line running north–south between the Jefferson Park and Westchester neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California, passing through various South Los Angeles neighborhoods and the city of Inglewood. It is one of six lines in the Los Angeles Metro ...
The $100-million, 1.3-mile public art corridor known as Destination Crenshaw — with fundraising led by Issa Rae and DeMar DeRozan — will debut its first phase, Sankofa Park, this fall.