64 El Pueblo Plaza de Los Angeles
This historic public space was laid out in 1818. The present location is the third and final location, having moved there in the mid 1800s. Often ringed in for Sunday bullfights in the 1830s and 1840s, the Plaza was surrounded by homes of rancheros and public buildings [...]

Agreement With Meruelo Maddux Comes Four Years After LAUSD Tried to Buy Taylor Yard Site for $27 Million
by Ryan Vaillancourt
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $50 million to settle an eminent domain dispute with Meruelo Maddux Properties over a 23-acre Cypress Park site, Los Angeles Downtown News has learned.
The [...]

Built in 1925, the domed structure includes elements of Romanesque, Moorish and “California Hollywood.”
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Completed in 1937, this structure served as United States headquarters for the Korean independence movement against the Japanese occupation. Since 1945 it has been a center for Korean cultural activities.
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This is the site of the Holiday Bowl, which was popular among Blacks and Japanese and helped desegregate L.A. by providing a multiracial place for socializing and bowling. Holiday Bowl was demolished in 2003 and the site is now a sporting goods store. There is a website dedicated to the Holiday Bowl. 3730 South Crenshaw [...]

Mr. Still was the first African-American to conduct a major symphony orchestra in the United States. His work continues to be performed by top-ranking conductors and musical organizations throughout the world.
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The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance was one of the five largest African-American-owned insurance companies in the United States. In 1928, using all African American design and labor, the company built a two story building at 4261 Central Avenue in South Central Los Angeles where the firm occupied the top floor while the main floor [...]

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 20, 2008
In downtown Los Angeles on Saturday there were sights and smells and sounds of a milestone event the concrete urban core had not hosted in more than a century.
Fresh bark. Tinkling water cascading down a rocky slope. California sycamores and coast live oaks, an expansive meadow [...]

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Neighborhood children celebrated Earth Day by planting trees on April 19, 2008.
The new Vista Hermosa Nature Park adjoining the new Edward R. Roybal High School in Pico Union, one of the most park-starved communities in California, opened on July 19, 2008! This is a best practice example of the joint use of parks and schools.
Vista [...]

The Hollywood School for Girls/Woman’s Club of Hollywood was designed by Arthur E. Harvey and constructed in 1948.

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