Broadway is a major thoroughfare in Downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The area features many of the city's major arts institutions and sports facilities, sightseeing opportunities, a variety of skyscrapers and associated large multinational corporations and, California California ( /kælɪˈfɔrnjə/ ) is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and, to the south, the Mexican state of Baja California. California is the most populous U.S. state. Its four largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego,. It starts off at Mission Road in the Lincoln Heights Lincoln Heights is bounded by the Los Angeles River on the west, the San Bernardino Freeway on the south, and Indiana Street on the east; the district's northern border is unclear due to the area's uneven terrain. Adjacent communities include El Sereno on the east, City Terrace on the southeast, Boyle Heights on the south, Chinatown and Solano neighborhood and heads due west (although signs along the street read "North Broadway"). After crossing the Golden State Freeway In the U.S. state of California, Interstate 5, a major north-south route of the Interstate Highway System, has its southern terminus at the United States-Mexico border at the San Ysidro crossing. It heads north across the length of California before it crosses into Oregon south of the Medford-Ashland metropolitan area (Interstate 5), it curves to the southwest, passing through the old railyards north of Downtown before descending into Chinatown Chinatown in Los Angeles, California is a Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles that was founded in the late 1800s. It was originally located less than a mile from its current location where Union Station is located, passing through Central Plaza and the Dragon Gate. After crossing César Chávez Avenue The Avenida César Chávez is a major east-west thoroughfare in Downtown Los Angeles, the east side of Los Angeles, and East Los Angeles, California, measuring 6.19 miles in length. The street was formed in 1989 from Sunset Boulevard between Figueroa and Spring, a new portion of roadway, Macy Street between Main and Mission, and Brooklyn Avenue and the Hollywood Freeway The Hollywood Freeway is a named freeway in Southern California in the Los Angeles Area. It can refer to:, Broadway enters the Los Angeles Civic Center The Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles and a complex of city, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses. It then passes the Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States. Its daily circulation reported in October 2008 was 739,000, down from a building at First Street and enters the historic Downtown commercial district A commercial district or commercial zone is any part of a city or town in which the primary land use is commercial activities , as opposed to a residential neighbourhood, an industrial zone, or other types of neighbourhoods. In some cities, authorities use planning or zoning laws to define the boundaries of commercial districts.

From Downtown, it continues south into South Los Angeles South Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South L.A., is the official name for a large geographic and cultural portion lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still widely known as South Central. It borders the Westside on the northwest, and Downtown LA for about another 10 miles (16 km), merging with Main Street just north of the San Diego Freeway Interstate 405 is a major north-south Interstate Highway in Southern California. It is a bypass of Interstate 5, running along the western areas of the Greater Los Angeles Area from Irvine to near San Fernando. The entire route is known as the northern segment of the San Diego Freeway in Carson Carson is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, Carson had a total population of 89,730. It is located 13 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, and is classified as a suburb of the city. Incorporated on April 4, 1968, Carson is the youngest municipality in the South Bay region of Greater Los Angeles. A section of Broadway in South Los Angeles was originally named Moneta Avenue.

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History

Chinatown Chinatown in Los Angeles, California is a Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles that was founded in the late 1800s. It was originally located less than a mile from its current location where Union Station is located

One of the oldest streets in the city, it was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord and named Fort Street. Fort Street began at the south side of Fort Moore Hill (a block north of Temple Street) at Sand Street (later California Street).

In 1890, the name of Fort Street, from First Street to Tenth Street, was changed to Broadway. The rest of Fort Street, from California Street to First Street, was changed to North Broadway.[1][2]

The Broadway Tunnel under Fort Moore Hill was opened in 1901, extending North Broadway to Buena Vista Street at Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. The street is an icon of Hollywood celebrity culture and the phrase "Sunset Boulevard" is an enduring shorthand for the, now César Chávez Avenue The Avenida César Chávez is a major east-west thoroughfare in Downtown Los Angeles, the east side of Los Angeles, and East Los Angeles, California, measuring 6.19 miles in length. The street was formed in 1989 from Sunset Boulevard between Figueroa and Spring, a new portion of roadway, Macy Street between Main and Mission, and Brooklyn Avenue). In 1909, construction on a bridge across the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River starts in San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, and Santa Susana Mountains and flows through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. Several tributaries join the once free flowing and frequently flooding river, forming was begun to connect Buena Vista Street to Downey Avenue, which ran from the river to Mission Road. The names of Buena Vista and Downey were then changed to North Broadway.[3][4] The bridge, which continued to be referred to as the Buena Vista Street Bridge for a good while, was opened to traffic in late September 1911.[5]

For more than 50 years, Broadway from First Street to Olympic Boulevard was the main commercial street of Los Angeles, and one of its premier theater districts as well. It contains a vast number of historic buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. Having a property on the National Register makes its owners eligible for tax incentives for expenses incurred preserving the property if they are offered by the local taxing.

Before World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilization of over 100 million military personnel, making it the most widespread war in history, Broadway was considered by many to be the center of the city, where residents went to ornate movie palaces There are three building types in particular which can be subsumed under the label movie palace. First, the classical style movie palace, with its eclectic and luxurious period-revival architecture; second, the atmospheric theatre which has an auditorium ceiling that resembles an open sky as its defining feature and finally, the Art Deco theaters and shopped at department stores A department store is a retail establishment which specializes in satisfying a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories. Department stores usually sell products including. Some historically significant buildings include the Bradbury Building and the Julia Morgan Julia Morgan was an American architect. The architect of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Throughout her long career, she designed multiple buildings for institutions serving women and girls-designed Los Angeles Examiner building.

Virtually all of the movie theaters A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures on the street have fallen into disuse and disrepair, and some were replaced with parking lots. The department stores have closed, but Broadway has for decades been the premier shopping destination for working class Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in lower tier jobs as measured by skill, education, and compensation Latinos U.S. official use of the term "Hispanic" has its origins in the 1970 census. The Census Bureau attempted to identify all Hispanics by use of the following criteria in sampled sets:.[6]

Landmark Theaters

Between Third Street and Olympic Boulevard are a dozen historic theaters known as the Broadway Theater District Broadway Theater and Commercial District in Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States—the largest surviving collection of pre-WWII movie palaces in the United States, including the 1918 Million Dollar Theater, the first Los Angeles movie palace built by Sid Grauman Sidney Patrick Grauman was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater. The son of David Grauman who died in 1921 in Los Angeles, California and Rosa Goldsmith (1853-1936), the 1931 Los Angeles Theatre and the 1926 Orpheum Theatre.[7]

Public transportation

Metro Local lines 2, 4, 30, 31, 40, 42, 45 and 214 (weekday rush hours only) operate on Broadway, as well as Metro Rapid lines 730, 740 and 745.

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References

  1. ^ Los Angeles Times, Sep. 6, 1889, "City In Brief," p. 8.
  2. ^ Los Angeles Times, Feb. 18, 1890, "No Title," p. 4.
  3. ^ Los Angeles Times, Nov. 30, 1909, "A Literary Fog," p. II4.
  4. ^ Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, 1911, "The Lancer," p. II5.
  5. ^ Los Angeles Times, Sep. 24, 1911, "Majestic. --- Great Viaduct About Ready. --- Cars Run Over the Buena Vista Structure. --- Concrete Bridge Across Los Angeles River Weighs Nearly Forty Thousand Tons, Cost Two Hundred and Seventy-five Thousand Dollars—Without a Peer in West," p. II1.
  6. ^ a b DiMassa, Cara; Bloomekatz, Ari B. (January 28, 2008), "L.A. plans Broadway face-lift", Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States. Its daily circulation reported in October 2008 was 739,000, down from a: B1, B8, http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-broadway28jan28,1,1421189.story?ctrack=5&cset=true
  7. ^ Geffner, David (January/February 2008), "Screen Gems", Westways 100 (1): 62–65

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