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Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
1927 Los Angeles Times map of Leimert Park and surrounding area, including (4) proposed connection of Santa Barbara Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) with Angeles Mesa Drive (now Crenshaw Boulevard) via a new 133-foot-wide Leimert Boulevard and (7) paving and widening of Angeles Mesa Drive with two roadways from Vernon south to 79th Street
The 1932 Los Angeles Olympics housed athletes at the Olympic Village in Baldwin Hills. [4] It was the site of the very first Olympic Village ever built, for the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games. [5]
Indianapolis Cathedral: A Construction History of Our Three Mother Churches. Indianapolis, IN: Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Kennedy, Sister Francis Assisi (2009). The Archdiocese of Indianapolis, 1834–2009: Like a Mustard Seed Growing. Strasbourg, France: Editions du Signe. ISBN 978-2-7468-1911-5. "Our History". St.
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden (Arcadia) Los Angeles County Coroner's Office; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Miracle Mile) Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial * Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) (Westchester, Los Angeles) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (south of Downtown) Los Angeles Nurses' Club *
In 1976, May Company offered space to the Museum of African American Art on the third floor of what later became Macy's. [30] Samella Lewis, who had founded the museum in 1975, wanted "to provide art services to students, scholars, teachers and lay persons concerned with the art and cultural history of the peoples of the African Diaspora." [31]
Los Angeles Th. 600–610 Walter P. Story B. 1909 MW&C BA Mullen & Bluett ds 616 Desmond's ds 620 Schaber's cafeteria 630 Palace Th. 1911 GAL RR 644 Joseph E Carr B. 1909 HH W & J. Sloane 1909–1935 Brooks Clothing Co 1935–47 Harris & Frank 1947–80 648 Boos Bros. Cafeteria 1916 Clifton's Cafeteria 1935– 601
West Adams Terrace is a neighborhood in the West Adams area of Los Angeles. Dating back to 1905, it contains seven Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, one property on the National Register of Historic Places and one Green Book property. In 2003, the neighborhood was designated a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone.