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Little Tokyo is also home to Japanese American Christian communities. Centenary United Methodist Church was founded in 1896 by first-generation Japanese American immigrants. Union Church of Los Angeles, founded in 1918, represents a long tradition of Japanese American Presbyterianism.
Little Tokyo/Arts District station is an underground light rail station on the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It replaced an at-grade station with the same name that was located on the east side of Alameda Street between 1st Street and Temple Street, on the edge of Little Tokyo and the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
After the 1906 earthquake in Northern California, around 2,000-3,000 Japanese immigrants moved to Los Angeles and created areas like Little Tokyo on East Alameda. [4] As the community continued to grow, Little Tokyo extended to the First Street Corridor in Boyle Heights, in the early 1910s. [2]
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(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) The signs at Sunday's rally protesting the eviction of Little Tokyo's Suehiro Cafe offered a full menu of the different ways a community can be angry.
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A third LRT build alternative was added in February 2010, at the request of Little Tokyo stakeholders (including property, business, and homeowners). [ citation needed ] The operational intent of the project was to allow through running of service between the four corridors (Blue Line corridor, Expo corridor, Gold Pasadena corridor, and Gold ...
The Downtown Independent (formerly the ImaginAsian Center) was a one screen theater and cinema located at 251 S. Main Street in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] It was operated by the Downtown Independent and owned by Orange County, California's Cinema Properties Group.