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The Los Angeles Women's Community Chorus (LAWCC) was a Los Angeles based non-profit group from 1976 to 1990 and performed works written and arranged by women. The LAWCC used their platform to bring awareness about lesbian issues, feminism and other local issues affecting the gay and lesbian community. [ 29 ]
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
Contrary to some reports, Norma Place and the neighborhood is not named after silent film star Norma Talmadge.After extensive research, historians believe Norma Place and streets like Clark, Lloyd, Cynthia, Dicks, Hammond, and others [4] [5] "were named after senior executives of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad Company, owned by Moses Sherman and Eli P. Clark, who built the streets, or their ...
In 2011, ONE Archives participated in the region-wide Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980 initiative with the exhibition Cruising the Archive: Queer Art & Culture in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 which was presented at the ONE Gallery in West Hollywood, as well as at ONE Archives' main location on West Adams Boulevard and in the Treasure ...
On New Year's Eve 1967, a raid by undercover LAPD officers on the Black Cat Tavern in Los Angeles, California, a gay bar, ended in several beatings and the arrests of 16 people. [19] The violence of the police raid caused push back from bar goers including those at another bar, New Faces, located down the street, where officers knocked down the ...
The streets were renamed in 1910, when the city of Hollywood was annexed into Los Angeles. [2] Beginning in the 1920s, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the area began to see an influx of money and influence as movie and music businesses moved to the district, turning the local farms and orchards into movie backlots.
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Historic district adjacent to Central Avenue Corridor in South Los Angeles; part of the African Americans in Los Angeles Multiple Property Submission (MPS) 2: 52nd Place Historic District: 52nd Place Historic District: June 11, 2009 : Along E. 52nd Place [6