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Downtown Inglewood (Los Angeles Metro Station)
Downtown Inglewood station is an at-grade light rail station on the K Line (Los Angeles Metro), K Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located alongside Florence Avenue between Market and Locust Streets in the central business district of the city of Inglewood, California. The station opened on October 7, 2022. Metro held a ceremonial ribbon cutting ceremony for the station on September 10, 2022. The station incorporates artwork by the artist Kenturah Davis. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from venues located in Inglewood including Olympic Games ceremony, opening and closing ceremonies and Football at the Summer Olympics, soccer games at SoFi Stadium, Archery at the Summer Olympics, Archery at Rivers Lake, and Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics, Gymnastics at Kia Forum. Service Station layout Hours and frequency Connections , the following connections are available: *Los Angeles Metro Bus: , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Avenue
Florence Avenue is a major east–west street in central Los Angeles County and South Los Angeles, in Southern California. 150px, The oldest operating McDonald's is on Florence Ave at Lakewood, in Downey, California. Route It is bounded in the east by Mills Avenue at Janine Drive in Whittier. At Telegraph Road, it changes to Florence. West of La Cienega Boulevard, it swerves into Aviation Boulevard, which is a north–south street, in the City of Inglewood. Florence Avenue runs through the cities of Inglewood, Los Angeles, Huntington Park (where it intersects Pacific Boulevard), Bell, Bell Gardens, Downey, Santa Fe Springs, and unincorporated Los Angeles County bordering the City of Whittier. Florence Avenue also crosses the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405), Harbor Freeway (Interstate 110), Long Beach Freeway (Interstate 710), San Gabriel River Freeway (Interstate 605), and Santa Ana Freeway (Interstate 5). An unconnected portion of Florence Avenue is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The Summer Olympics
Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics events as well. Rhythmic gymnastics events were introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and trampoline events were added at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Summary Artistic gymnastics Men's events Women's events Medal table ''(1896–2020)'' Nations Nations competing in artistic gymnastics, and the number of gymnasts (male and female) each nation brought to each Olympics, are shown below. Rhythmic gymnastics Events Medal table ''(1984–2020)'' Nations Nations competing in rhythmic gymnastics and the number of gymnasts each nation brought to each Olympics, are shown below. Trampoline Events Medal table ''(2000–2020)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forum (Inglewood, California)
Kia Forum (formerly The Forum) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Inglewood, California, United States, adjacent to Los Angeles. Located between West Manchester Boulevard, across Pincay Drive and Kareem Court, it is north of SoFi Stadium and the Hollywood Park Casino, and about east of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). From 1967 to 1999, the Forum was home to the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL) before both teams joined the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers (who had played at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena) at the new Staples Center (now Crypto.com Arena). From 1997 to 2001, the Forum was also the home of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks until they moved to Crypto.com Arena as well. The Forum opened on December 30, 1967. Architect Charles Luckman's vision was realized by engineers Carl Johnson and Svend Nielsen. It was a groundbreaking structure without extensive internal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Park Racetrack
Hollywood Park was a thoroughbred race course located in Inglewood, California, about 3 miles (5 km) from Los Angeles International Airport and adjacent to the Forum indoor arena. In 1994, the original Hollywood Park Casino was added to the racetrack complex. Horse racing and training were shut down in December 2013 though the casino operations continued until a new state of the art casino building, the new Hollywood Park Casino, opened in October 2016. The track was demolished in stages from 2014 until 2016 and the area is now the site of a master-planned neighborhood in development named Hollywood Park after the former track. The most prominent parts of the development are SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL), YouTube Theater, a 6,000-seat performance arts venue, Hollywood Park Casino, and the NFL Los Angeles building, which is home to the NFL Network, NFL RedZone, NFL.com, and the NFL app. History Foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Park Casino
Hollywood Park Casino is a casino and sports bar in Inglewood, California. Originally part of the Hollywood Park Racetrack, the casino moved to a new building in 2016 after the closure and demolition of the racetrack in 2013. History In 1994, a casino called the Hollywood Park Casino, with a poker card room was added to the Hollywood Park Racetrack complex. The original casino owners were the Hollywood Park Operating Co., which also owned the race track. Afterward, the casino went through a series of owners including Churchill Downs. The racetrack was sold and shut down in December 2013 though the casino operations continued while the current casino building opened in October 2016. The casino is part of the Hollywood Park development which also features SoFi Stadium, home to the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League , and will later include multiple housing, business parks, luxury hotels, a movie theatre, and an open-air shopping center. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairview Heights Station (Los Angeles Metro)
Fairview Heights station is an at-grade light rail station on the K Line (Los Angeles Metro), K Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located alongside Redondo Boulevard and near the intersection of Florence Avenue and West Boulevard in Inglewood, California, Inglewood but near the Hyde Park, Los Angeles, Hyde Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The station opened on October 7, 2022. Metro held a ceremonial ribbon cutting ceremony for the station on August 20, 2022. The station incorporates artwork by the artist Kim Schoenstadt. The Fairview Heights station will be the western trailhead of the Rail-to-Rail Route bike path. Service Station layout Hours and frequency Connections , the following connections are available: *Los Angeles Metro Bus: , Notable places nearby The station is within walking distance of the following notable places: * Centinela Park, including the Aguaje de Centinela landmark * Inglewood Park Cemetery Fairview Heights station an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Theatre Inglewood
The Fox Theater Inglewood in downtown Inglewood, California is a now-closed but architecturally significant movie theater that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building, designed in the Streamline Moderne style, was designed by S. Charles Lee in 1949. History The Fox Theater opened on March 31, 1949 on the former site of the Granada Theater, which was destroyed by a fire in 1944. Built by Fox Theatres, it was the last theater built by the chain, before the ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'' case prohibited movie studios, in this case 20th Century Fox, from owning movie theaters and hold exclusive rights where their movies were shown. After this, 20th Century Fox continued to show previews of films at the Inglewood theater before releasing. There were various owners that continued to operate the Fox Theater. The theater showed Spanish films up to its closing in 1988. It is said to have been "destroyed by a fire" in 1993. In 2009, a group called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles County Superior Court
The Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, is the California superior court with jurisdiction over Los Angeles County, which includes the city of Los Angeles. It is the largest single unified trial court in the United States. The Los Angeles Superior Court operates 38 courthouses throughout the county, including the Stanley Mosk Courthouse at the Los Angeles Civic Center. , the Presiding Judge is Samantha P. Jessner. Sherri R. Carter is the Executive Officer/Clerk of Court. With 5,400 employees and an annual budget of $769.5 million, the superior court operates nearly 600 courtrooms throughout the county.''A look at your Superior Court'', published by Los Angeles Superior Court History Stanley Mosk Courthouse in 1983 When California declared its statehood in 1849 and became a part of the United States, the first California Constitution authorized the legislature to establish municipal and such other courts as it deemed necessary. The 1851 California Judiciary Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Garner
Lorraine Archibald “Archie” Garner (February 24, 1904 – May 7, 1969) was an American sculptor. During the New Deal he was commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project and Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture to create several notable works of art for public buildings, all within the state of California. * ''Astronomers Monument'' at Griffith Observatory, commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), was Garner's design, and he was one of the six contributing sculptors. The monument honoring Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Herschel, was dedicated in November 25, 1934. A casting of the face of Garner’s Copernicus is at the Clark Library. * ''Law'' at the Spring Street Courthouse (formerly a federal courthouse, now superior court) in downtown Los Angeles is an tall limestone sculpture. ''Law'', or ''The Law'', was originally produced under the auspices of PWAP. * ''Justice'' is a tall cast-concrete relief sculpture at the 1939 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New Deal Sculpture
List of New Deal sculpture is a list of sculpture found in the United States and its territories, including free standing, relief and architectural sculpture that was funded by the federal government during the New Deal era. These include works produced under the Public Works of Art Project, (1933–1934), Treasury Relief Art Project, (1935–1938), Federal Art Projects (1935–1943), the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943) and other federally sponsored projects. Unless otherwise noted, sources are from Park and Markowitz or American Art Annual, 1941. "USPO" refers to a United States Post Office building, the term "relief" refers to relief sculpture. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Millier, Arthur. "Art Withstands Scrutiny of Hard-Boiled Politicians: Planetarium Obelisk, Park Fountain, Other, Massive Works Continue Under F.E.R.A." Los Angeles Times, Jun 03, 1934, pp. 2. Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Deco In The United States
The Art Deco style, which originated in France just before World War I, had an important impact on architecture and design in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. The most famous examples are the skyscrapers of New York City including the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center. It combined modern aesthetics, fine craftsmanship and expensive materials, and became the symbol of luxury and modernity. While rarely used in residences, it was frequently used for office buildings, government buildings, train stations, movie theaters, diners and department stores. It also was frequently used in furniture, and in the design of automobiles, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as toasters and radio sets. In the late 1930s, during the Great Depression, it featured prominently in the architecture of the immense public works projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration and the Public Works Administration, such as the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Lundeberg
Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999) was a Southern Californian painter. Along with her husband Lorser Feitelson, she is credited with establishing the Post-Surrealist movement. Her artistic style changed over the course of her career, and has been described variously as Post-Surrealism, Hard-edge painting and Subjective Classicism. Early life and education Helen Lundeberg was born in Chicago in on June 24, 1908, the eldest child of second-generation Swedish parents. In 1912 her family moved to Pasadena, California. As a child, she was an exceptional student and an avid reader. Her intellectual aptitude earned her inclusion in a Stanford University "Study of Gifted Children", which looked at the characteristics and development of children who ranked in the top 1% in California schools. During her early adulthood, Lundeberg's inclination was to become a writer. In her early life as a painter she would paint portraits of herself, mother, and sister. Career In 1930, Lundeberg graduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
