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Century Boulevard is a major east–west thoroughfare in the southern portion of Los Angeles, California.Century Boulevard acts as a continuation of Tweedy Boulevard at Alameda Street in South Gate in its east end (Tweedy Boulevard in its east end starts slightly east of Atlantic Avenue), and ends in the west at the passenger terminals at Los Angeles International Airport.
This is a list of notable streets in Los Angeles, California. They are grouped by type: arterial thoroughfares , commercial corridors, and other streets. Arterial thoroughfares
Much of the length of the Century Freeway runs parallel to Imperial Highway. It also runs parallel to (and 1 mi (1.6 km) south of) Century Boulevard, from which its original name is derived. Century Boulevard, in turn, is named for its position equivalent to 100th Street in the Los Angeles grid.
Further extensions were made to Century Boulevard on July 31, 1958, [32] 124th Street on September 24, 1958, [33] Alondra Boulevard (which the county widened to carry the load) on May 2, 1960, [34] 190th Street on July 15, 1960, [35] Torrance Boulevard on August 28, 1962, [36] and finally Pacific Coast Highway on September 26, 1962. [37]
Name Height ft (m) Floors Year Neighborhood Notes Century City Center: 563 (172) 37: 2026: Century City (1950 Ave of the Stars.) Office above the under construction D Line Extension Century City Station. Designed by Johnson Fain. [107] [108] [109] One Beverly Hills Santa Monica Residences Tower: 410 (125) 32: 2026: Beverly Hills (9900 Wilshire ...
La Cienega Boulevard; Lake Washington Boulevard; Lankershim Boulevard; Las Vegas Boulevard; Laurel Canyon Boulevard; Lincoln Boulevard (Los Angeles County) Linwood Boulevard (Kansas City, Missouri) Logan Square Boulevards Historic District; Long Beach Boulevard (California)
Tampa: On April 11, 1968, one week after the assassination, Tampa became the first city to rename a street, with the city council voting unanimously "to change the name of Main Street, between North Boulevard and MacDill Avenue to Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard in honor of the assassinated Negro leader."
Originally, these streets were simply given lettered names such as "A Street" and "B Street", but in the mid-19th century, the streets were given longer names. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This system persists today with a few exceptions: Ash, Box, Clay, Dupont, Eagle, Freeman, Greene, Huron, India, Java, Kent, Greenpoint Avenue (formerly Lincoln Street ...