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La Cienega Boulevard is named after Rancho Las Cienegas Mexican land grant roughly in the region now called "West Los Angeles." The Spanish phrase la ciénaga translates into English as "the swamp " and the area named "Las Ciénegas" was a continual marshland due to the course of the Los Angeles River through that area prior to a massive ...
The rancho was north of Rancho La Ciénega ó Paso de la Tijera and east of present-day La Cienega Boulevard between Wilshire Boulevard and Jefferson Boulevard. [2] [3] The Los Angeles River would periodically change course historically, and flowed westerly through the rancho's lowlands to Ballona Creek and the Santa Monica Bay until 1825, when ...
This is a list of notable streets in Los Angeles, California. They are grouped by type: ... La Cienega Boulevard; Laurel Canyon Boulevard; Lincoln Boulevard; Main Street;
Its center has traditionally been regarded as the southeast corner [1] of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The boundaries of the 30-mile (48 km) radius includes the southern, urbanized half of Los Angeles County, as well as parts of eastern Ventura County and northwestern Orange County. [citation needed]
"Paso de la Tijera" appears in c1860 maps where a path crosses a stream, at today's intersection of Crenshaw Blvd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. [2] Some sources say the term means "Pass of the Scissors" and was used by Spanish settlers to describe a pass through the Baldwin Hills which resembled an open pair of scissors, though another ...
The Coronet Theatre is a theatre located at 366 North La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.During its peak in the mid 20th century, it was a legitimate theatre and experimental cinema venue, showing the work of people such as Kenneth Anger, Man Ray, Peter Berg, and Richard Vetere.
La Cienega Boulevard, a major arterial road in Los Angeles County, California La Cienega/Jefferson station, a station on the LA Metro E Line; Ciénega Creek, an intermittent stream in southern Arizona; Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, a protected area in Arizona; Río de la Ciénaga, a river in Puerto Rico; Ciénaga, Guánica, Puerto ...
Versailles on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. Versailles is a chain of three Cuban cuisine restaurants in Los Angeles, California, USA. The first restaurant in this chain opened in 1971 in West Los Angeles, specifically in the Palms district on Venice Blvd, just north of Culver City.