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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.
English: Location map of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area — which encompasses Los Angeles County and Orange County in Southern California. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120.0 %. Geographic limits of the map:
The Pioneer is a statue by Henry Lion that was designed as part of a fountain in Carthay Circle Park. [13] Standing about seven feet tall and weighing 512 pounds, it was installed on September 25, 1924. [1]
The neighborhood of Carthay comprises Carthay Circle, Carthay Square and South Carthay. [1]As delineated by the Los Angeles Times Mapping Project, Carthay is bounded on the north by Wilshire Boulevard, on the east by Fairfax Avenue, on the south by Pico Boulevard, on the west by La Cienega Boulevard and on the northwest by Schumacher and Tower Drives.
In 2004 the library moved to its current location, a 26,300 square feet (2,440 m 2) facility designed by Stephen Finney of the Glendale firm CWA AIA, Inc. The current library has areas for adults and children, the Chicano Resource Center (CRC) established in 1976, a 175-person meeting room, a computer room, a Friends of the Library bookstore ...
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The South Carthay area became a portion of the City of Los Angeles on February 28, 1922. [3] Residential development in the area began during the early 1930s on land that previously grew produce for Ralphs markets. [4]
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was named for Northridge based on early estimates of the location of the quake's epicenter; however, further refinements showed it to be technically in neighboring Reseda. [32] The earthquake, which occurred on a blind thrust fault, was one of the strongest ground motions ever recorded in North America. Freeways ...