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The history of the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway system begins in the early 1970s, when the traffic-choked region began planning a rapid transit system. The first dedicated busway opened along I-10 in 1973, and the region's first light rail line, the Blue Line (now the A Line) opened in 1990.
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2000; Hollywood Erotic Museum, closed in 2006; Sports Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2016 [5] VIVA Art Center – Valley Institute of Visual Art, Sherman Oaks, closed in 2011 [6] Wells Fargo History Museum (Los Angeles), closed in 2020 [7]
Walt Disney Concert Hall [74] and Chinese American Museum [34] open. Los Angeles Derby Dolls (rollerderby) team formed. Metro Gold Line opens. 2004 – National Day Laborer Organizing Network headquartered in Los Angeles (approximate date). [citation needed] 2005 Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority homeless census begins. [75]
The L Line and Gold Line [2] are former designations for a section of the current Los Angeles Metro Rail system. These names referred to a single light rail line of 31 miles (50 km) [1] providing service between Azusa and East Los Angeles via the northeastern corner of Downtown Los Angeles, serving several attractions, including Little Tokyo, Union Station, the Southwest Museum, Chinatown, and ...
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, also called LA Plaza, is a Mexican-American museum and cultural center in Los Angeles, California, USA that opened in April 2011. [1] Housed in two historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles it includes a museum, a 30,000-square-foot outdoor space with a performance stage, an edible garden, and LA Cocina de Gloria Molina, a teaching kitchen and flexible event space.
Eventually, the museum renamed itself again, becoming The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. In 2003, the museum began a campaign to transform its exhibits and visitor experience. The museum reopened its seismically retrofitted renovated 1913 rotunda, along with the new "Age of Mammals" exhibition [7] in 2010. Its Dinosaur Hall ...
[33] The Aqua Line was a hoax, but Heavy Trash intended to raise awareness that heavily congested and populated West Los Angeles still lacked rail access. The LACMTA officially proposed the Mid-City/Exposition Light Rail Transit Project, a project to construct a light rail line that begins in Downtown Los Angeles and ends in Downtown Santa ...
The Getty Villa is an educational center and art museum located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. [2] One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum , the Getty Villa is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece , Rome , and Etruria .