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The Hotel Alexandria is a historic building constructed as a luxury hotel at the beginning of the 20th century in what was then the heart of downtown Los Angeles.As the business center of the city moved gradually westward, the hotel decayed and gradually devolved into a single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel housing long-term, low income residents and gained a reputation for crime and being unsafe.
The Security Building is an 11-story high-rise building located at 510 South Spring Street within the Spring Street Financial District in Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has been converted to the residential Lofts at the Security Building. It was the former headquarters office building of Security First National Bank, completed in 1906.
Broadway-Spring Arcade was built of concrete, brick, and stone with terra cotta and wrought iron ornamentation [1] [27] and features a Spanish Renaissance design on its lower floors, a Beaux Arts design on its upper floors, and an Ionic column colonnade on its top floor. [14] The overall design was meant to resemble London's Burlington Arcade. [1]
Spring Street in Los Angeles is one of the oldest streets in the city. Along Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles, from just north of Fourth Street to just south of Seventh Street is the NRHP-listed Spring Street Financial District, nicknamed Wall Street of the West, [2] [3] lined with Beaux Arts buildings and currently experiencing gentrification.
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Members of the Manson Family began their campaign of murder on July 31, 1969, with the murder of Topanga resident Gary Hinman, a music teacher who had opened his home to anyone needing shelter. On Monday January 10, 2005, a 25-foot, 300-ton boulder rolled down a hillside and landed in Topanga Canyon Blvd. [ 8 ] It occurred after heavy rains ...
Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles [1] officially known as Central City East. [2]Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [3]
The facility's volume had grown by the mid-1980s to 14 million pieces of mail per day, [13] and the annex was plagued by inadequate space, overcrowding and inadequate work areas. [14] Accordingly, the Postal Service Board of Governors in 1984 approved the construction of a new $151 million general post office in South Los Angeles . [ 11 ]