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Eastside Los Angeles — the eastern neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles and central-eastern communities of Los Angeles County, California. The region is located east of Downtown Los Angeles and south of the San Gabriel Valley .
Part of the pre-1940 Route 66, Cesar Chavez Avenue begins as a continuation of Sunset Boulevard on the east side of Figueroa Street.It runs through Downtown Los Angeles, crosses Alameda Street and passes over the Los Angeles River, through the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights and Boyle Heights and the northern portion of East Los Angeles into the southern portion of Monterey Park.
East Los Angeles was founded in 1870 by John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), who was called "the father of East Los Angeles". [1] In late 1874 the two men offered an additional thirty-five acres, divided into 65x165-foot lots, for $150 each.
East Los Angeles (Spanish: Este de Los Ángeles), or East L.A., is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) situated within Los Angeles County, California, United States. According to the United States Census Bureau , East Los Angeles is designated as a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes.
Los Angeles (Downtown) 1959: East 7th Street (HAER CA-282) 1927: Sixth Street Bridge: 2022: East 4th Street (HAER CA-280) 1930: East 1st Street (HAER CA-175) and Metro E Line (2 Tracks in street median) 1929: US 101 (Santa Ana Freeway) 1944: El Monte Busway: 1989: Macy Street Bridge, carrying Cesar E. Chavez Avenue (HAER CA-277) Los Angeles ...
In 1890 Soto Street was "a dirt road lined with pepper trees." [2] By 1927 the city had decided to pave it as an arterial.[3] [4] [5] The intersection of Soto Street and Brooklyn Avenue (now called Cesar Chavez Avenue) came to be considered the most important intersection in East Los Angeles, both when it was the center of the Los Angeles Jewish community (the largest Jewish community in the ...
The East Los Angeles Interchange is an interchange complex located in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles. With its southern portion handling over 550,000 vehicles per day (2008 AADT), it is the busiest freeway interchange in the world. [ 1 ]
El Pino (English: The Pine Tree) is a large bunya pine located on the southeastern corner of Folsom Street and N. Indiana Street in East Los Angeles, California.The tree overlooks the Wellington Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles and the Boyle Heights neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles from atop a small hill.