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Downtown Compton started out as a thriving and safe environment throughout the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. When gang violence and robberies sparked in the 70s businesses began to move out and relocate leaving Downtown Compton a ghost town. It is now home to many businesses, two shopping centers, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Transit Center. [1]
Championed by the Compton Entertainment Chamber of Commerce, the city of Compton honored Musical Entertainer rapper Eazy-E, with a symbolic street in his stage name. On November 22, 2023, the 100 block of Auto Drive South, which runs off Alameda Street and into the Gateway Towne Center shopping plaza was renamed to Eazy Street.
The Compton Fashion Center was established in 1985 by six Korean swap meet vendors. [3] It was the first indoor swap meet in Southern California. [1] The vendors purchased a former Sears store in Compton, California for $2.8 million, spending another $1.4 million to convert it to a swap meet with 350 stalls. [4]
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Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024.
Israel began the chain in January, 1946 in a 7-by-12-foot space (84 sq. ft.) carved out of a movie theater lobby on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles.She proceeded to open a 360-square-foot store in 1948 in Compton, an 800-square-foot store on May 9, 1949 on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, and in 1952, a 3,500-square-foot store in the new Lakewood Center, the United States' first ...
Ralphs Grocery Company has contracts with the United Food and Commercial Workers, the largest grocery union in the United States.In late 2003 and early 2004, Ralphs locked out its workers who were members of the UFCW in sympathy with competitor Vons (owned by Safeway Inc.) in Southern California, after the UFCW had declared a strike against Vons.