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Sawtelle / s ɔː ˈ t ɛ l / is a neighborhood in West Los Angeles, on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. The short-lived City of Sawtelle grew around the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers , later the Sawtelle Veterans Home , and was incorporated as a city in 1899.
The neighborhood appeals to a wide demographic with cheap eat as well as upscale restaurants and a banquet center on the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Sawtelle Boulevard. One interesting site was the consulate of Saudi Arabia , prior to relocated to Wilshire Blvd location, being next to a ramen restaurant and an esoteric Japanese magazine store.
English: Map of Chicago community areas. Data compiled using the Chicago Community Areas List numbered 1-77 and 'Sides' descriptions. Date: 12 November 2012, 14:32:41:
The Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago defined the community areas in the 1920s based on neighborhoods or groups of related neighborhoods within the city. In this effort it was led by sociologists Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess , who believed that physical contingencies created areas that would inevitably form a ...
The first group of Japanese in Chicago arrived in 1892. They came as part of the Columbian Exposition so they could build the Ho-o-den Pavilion in Chicago. [1] In 1893 the first known Japanese individual in Chicago, Kamenosuke Nishi, moved to Chicago from San Francisco. He opened a gift store, and Masako Osako, author of "Japanese Americans ...
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Sawtelle may refer to: Cullen Sawtelle (1805–1887), American politician; Vashti Sawtelle, American physicist; William Henry Sawtelle (1868–1934), American judge; Sawtelle, Los Angeles, neighborhood in West Los Angeles Sawtelle Boulevard; Sawtelle Veterans Home; Sawtelle (Pacific Electric)