Los Angeles Street, originally known as Calle de los Negros or Alley of the Black People, is a major thoroughfare in Downtown Los Angeles,

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, dating back to the origins of the city as the

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Location

The principal length of the street proceeds north from 23rd Street, past Interstate 10, through the Fashion District, past the western edge of Little Tokyo, past the Caltrans District Headquarters, the former

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Headquarters at

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and the Los Angeles Mall (which contains City Hall East). Los Angeles Street ends at Alameda Street, north of the

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near

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and

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. In

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there are two other portions of Los Angeles Street, one running from

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to 59th Place and another from 122nd Street to 124th Street near Willowbrook.

History

The block of Los Angeles Street that runs by the Old Plaza was originally known as "Calle de los Negros" or "Alley of the Black People". On late 19th century maps it is also marked with a contemporary English translation of that phrase, Nigger Alley. The

Chinese massacre of 1871 The Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 was a racial massacre targeting Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, California, United States that occurred on October 24, 1871. Approximately 500 white and Hispanic Americans attacked, harassed, robbe ...

took place on Los Angeles Street when it was still known as Calle de los Negros. The printing house for the city's first newspaper, '' Star of Los Angeles'', was located on Los Angeles Street, which was known at the time as Calle

Zanja Madre The ''Zanja Madre'' (, "Mother Trench") is the original aqueduct that brought water to the Pueblo de Los Angeles from the Río Porciúncula (Los Angeles River). The original open, earthen ditch, or ''zanja'' was completed by community laborers ...

(Mother Ditch street). Los Angeles Street was the easternmost street in the city's central business district during the 1880s and 1890s. Around Los Angeles and 3rd was the wholesale district, which over time moved further and further southeast into what is now the Fashion District and beyond.

Education

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Landmarks from Plaza to 3rd Street

Landmarks in Historic Core: 3rd Street to Olympic

File:Los Angeles St at Fifth NW corner King Edward Hotel c 1906.jpg, King Edward Hotel (built 1906, NW corner of 5th St.) File:Los Angeles St at Fifth SW corner Baltimore Hotel c 1910.jpg, Baltimore Hotel (built 1910, SW corner of 5th St.) Corner of 5th St. * Baltimore Hotel, opened 1910, architect Arthur Rowland Kelley * King Edward Hotel, opened 1906, architects Parkinson and Bergstrom Corner of 9th St. * Cooper Building, northeast corner, opened 1926, architects Curlett & Beelman. By the early 1980s the Cooper Building was already a key destination for retail shoppers looking for fashion bargains in the Los Angeles Fashion District. *

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, southeast corner, opened 1947, Streamline Moderne architectural style

References

External links

"Calle de los Negros", KCET (Los Angeles Public Television)

External links

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Tourist map of Downtown L.A.
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