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Olvera Street, commonly known by its Spanish name Calle Olvera, is a historic pedestrian street in El Pueblo de Los Ángeles, the historic center of Los Angeles.The street is located off of the Plaza de Los Ángeles, the oldest plaza in California, which served as the center of the city life through the Spanish and Mexican eras into the early American era, following the Conquest of California.
Placita Dolores, where from 1888 until the 1950s, Los Angeles Street used to run a short block north of the Plaza to terminate at Alameda St. When it was extended past the Plaza in 1888, [35] Los Angeles Street terminated one short block north of the Plaza at Alameda Street. Now, Los Angeles Street turns east at the north side of the Plaza to ...
Mi Tienda – Hispanic supermarket division of HEB Stores (two stores in Houston, Texas) La Michoacana Meat Market (Texas) Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market (Georgia) Numero Uno Market – Hispanic chain (Los Angeles area) - Now merged with Superior; La Perla Tapatía Supermarkets – (California) La Placita – Hispanic chain in New Orleans area
The blessing has been a tradition on Olvera Street since its founding in 1930, when priests would bless cows, horses and goats at La Placita Church "to help ensure health, fecundity and productivity."
NO. 145 AVILA ADOBE - This adobe house was built ca. 1818 by Don Francisco Avila, alcalde (mayor) of Los Angeles in 1810. Used as Commodore Robert Stockton's headquarters in 1847, it was repaired by private subscription in 1929-30 when Olvera Street was opened as a Mexican marketplace. It is the oldest existing house in Los Angeles.
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La Placita (originally: La Placita de los Trujillos; alternate: San Salvador) [1] is a former settlement and the earliest community established in Riverside County, California, USA. [2] The town was informally established soon after 1843 [ 3 ] on the Santa Ana River , across from the town of Agua Mansa . [ 4 ]
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