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The 1932 Los Angeles Olympics housed athletes at the Olympic Village in Baldwin Hills. [4] It was the site of the very first Olympic Village ever built, for the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games. [5]
Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw is a neighborhood in the south region of the city of Los Angeles defined by the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times in 2009. [1] The Times combines two city-designated neighborhoods: the upscale, principally home-owning Baldwin Hills residential district to the south and the more concentrated apartment area of the Crenshaw district to the north.
The Baldwin Hills are a low mountain range surrounded by and rising above the Los Angeles Basin plain in central Los Angeles County, California. [1] The Pacific Ocean is to the west, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, Downtown Los Angeles to the northeast, and the Palos Verdes Hills to the south—with all easily viewed from the Baldwin Hills.
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As Los Angeles quickly grew during the 20th century, only the rugged terrain of this section of the Baldwin Hills protected it from being developed. In 1932 the area east of the park was used as the site of the first Olympic Village ever built, for the 1932 Summer Olympics in the 10th Olympiad, which Los Angeles hosted. [18]
Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
According to Google Maps, [9] the Crenshaw neighborhood is centered on Crenshaw Boulevard and Buckingham Road. The neighborhood of Baldwin Hills is to the south, Baldwin Village is to the west, Leimert Park is to the east and Crenshaw Manor to the north. Cartographer Eric Brightwell considers Baldwin Village to be part of Crenshaw. [10]
Village Green, originally named Baldwin Hills Village, is a neighborhood at the foot of Baldwin Hills, within the city of Los Angeles, California.Village Green consists of a large condominium complex that is both a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and a National Historic Landmark.