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La Brea Avenue is a prominent north-south thoroughfare in the City of Los Angeles and in Los Angeles County, California. 1927 Los Angeles Times map shows (1) the proposed extension of a 100-foot-wide La Brea Avenue between Jefferson Street through the Baldwin Hills toward Inglewood .
Park La Brea is bounded by 3rd Street on the north, Cochran Avenue on the east, 6th Street on the south, and Fairfax Avenue on the west. The complex is notable for its octagonal street layout, with many internal thoroughfares at a 45° angle of displacement relative to the surrounding city street grid.
Beverly Fairfax Historic District. The historic Mission Revival style El Greco Apartments, built 1929.. Beverly–Fairfax (sometimes simply called Fairfax) [1] is a 3.2-square-mile neighborhood bordered by Willoughby Avenue on the north, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, La Brea Avenue on the east, and La Cienega Boulevard on the west.
Also, the expansion of La Brea Avenue in 1928–29 forced the physical movement of the buildings adjacent to the street back 15 feet (4.6 m) from their original locations, causing some disruption to the filming of City Lights.
La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Over many centuries, the bones of trapped animals have been preserved.
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
For those who don't know, the La Brea Tar Pits are an internationally recognized geological heritage site, located in the middle of Los Angeles. The site is known for its many fossil quarries ...
Baldwin Hills Shopping Center at Obama and La Brea boulevards. The former Rodeo Road's intersection with La Brea Avenue has been a commercial nexus [need quotation to verify] since the mid-20th century, with the Baldwin Hills Shopping Center [5] (not to be confused with the larger Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza indoor mall) opening in 1954 with anchors Safeway, Clark's Drug Store (later became ...