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The 1947 song was frequently featured on Dr. Demento's radio show. It is about streets in Los Angeles and was composed by Eddie Maxwell and Jule Styne. The Apple Pan: Located at 10801 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, The Apple Pan restaurant opened in 1947 and is locally famous for its hickory hamburgers and apple pies served with vanilla ice cream.
The City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation has posted Mid City signage [1] to mark the area. City installed signs are at the following intersections (from east to west): Hoover Street and Washington Boulevard, Vermont Avenue and Pico Boulevard, Western Avenue and Pico Boulevard, Normandie Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway, and La Brea Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway.
A first mention of Victoria Park was on January 20, 1907, in the Los Angeles Sunday Herald:. A level, elevated block of around 1000x1000 feet, between Pico and Sixteenth streets, on the West Adams Heights hill, has been bought by a syndicate of a dozen prominent business men who will improve the tract as the highest class of residence property obtainable in the city.
Pico-Union is the fourth-most-dense neighborhood in Los Angeles, surpassed only by East Hollywood, Westlake and Koreatown. [10] The 2000 U.S. census counted 42,324 residents in the 1.67-square-miles neighborhood—an average of 25,352 people per square mile.
Map of Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. (as delineated by the Los Angeles Times). According to the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project, Mid-Wilshire is bounded on the north by West Third Street, on the northeast by La Brea Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, on the east by Crenshaw Boulevard, on the south by Pico Boulevard and on the west by Fairfax Avenue.
The Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, identifies a geographically similar area called Pico-Robertson. Its street borders are: north, Gregory Way and Pico Boulevard ; northeast, LeDoux Road and Olympic and San Vicente Boulevards, roughly Beverly Glen Drive; [ 4 ] east, La Cienega Boulevard ; south, Airdrome Street and Hillcrest ...
Historically, the Angelus Vista area was serviced by two streetcar lines: the 16th Street Santa Monica Electric Car along what is now Venice Blvd and the Pico Streetcar line. [4] In 1903, the Los Angeles Times ran a story boasting that many of the dwellings in new housing tracts were fine specimens of architectural work. An Angelus Vista home ...
The Picfair Theater was a neighborhood film house in the West Los Angeles neighborhood of Picfair, on West Pico Boulevard at Fairfax Avenue.. It opened on January 24, 1941, and was leased and operated by Joseph Moritz and James H. Nicholson in the 1940s.