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This article covers streets in Los Angeles between and including 1st Street and 10th Street. Major streets have their own linked articles; minor streets are discussed here. These streets run parallel to each other, roughly east–west. Streets change from west to east (for instance West 1st Street to East 1st Street) at Main Street.
East Los Angeles was founded in 1870 by John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), who was called "the father of East Los Angeles". [1] In late 1874 the two men offered an additional thirty-five acres, divided into 65x165-foot lots, for $150 each.
The continuous portion of 6th Street ends at the downtown Los Angeles-Eastside Los Angeles border, where through traffic continues onto Whittier Boulevard via the 6th Street Viaduct, a 3,500 foot (1.1 km) viaduct that spans numerous train tracks, the Los Angeles River, and SR 101. 6th Street also continues as a discontinuous local road for ...
Eastside Los Angeles — the eastern neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles and central-eastern communities of Los Angeles County, California. The region is located east of Downtown Los Angeles and south of the San Gabriel Valley .
The historic Spanish Colonial Revival style Macy Street Viaduct. North entrance to Olvera Street from Cesar Chavez Avenue.. In October 1993, the Los Angeles City Council and the County Board of Supervisors approved the renaming of the stretch of roadway, but agreed to delay the change until 1994 and to put up historic plaques along Brooklyn Avenue to accommodate the opposition, many of whom ...
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In 1890 Soto Street was "a dirt road lined with pepper trees." [2] By 1927 the city had decided to pave it as an arterial.[3] [4] [5] The intersection of Soto Street and Brooklyn Avenue (now called Cesar Chavez Avenue) came to be considered the most important intersection in East Los Angeles, both when it was the center of the Los Angeles Jewish community (the largest Jewish community in the ...
The avenue numbers generally reflect the Los Angeles street grid beginning with Avenue 16 at the 1600 block north of 1st Street in Downtown through Avenue 67 at the 6700 block in Highland Park. [4] North of the Los Angeles River Pasadena Avenue and Figueroa Street assume the role of Main Street and divide house numbers on streets running east ...