#1 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles CA
~0.11 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Los Angeles City Hall, completed 1928, is the tallest base isolated structure in the world[citation needed]. It is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California. It houses the mayor's office as well as the meeting chambers of the Los Angeles City Council. It is located in the Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles in the city block bordered by Main, Temple, 1st, and Spring streets.
The building was designed by John Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, Sr., and was completed in 1928. It has 32 floors and, at 454 feet (138 m) high, is the tallest base-isolated structure in the world, having undergone a seismic retrofit that will allow the building to sustain minimal damage and remain functional after a magnitude 8.2 earthquake. The concrete in its tower was made with sand from each of California's 58 counties and water from its 21 historical missions. The city hall's distinctive tower was based on the purported shape of the Mausoleum of Maussollos, and shows the influence of the Los Angeles Public Library, completed soon before the City Hall was started. An image of City Hall has been on Los Angeles Police Department badges since 1940.
Due in part to seismic concerns, prior to the late 1950s the City of Los Angeles did not permit any portion of any building other than a purely decorative tower to be more than 150 feet (46 m) high.[citation needed] Therefore, from its completion in 1928 until 1964, the City Hall was the tallest building in Los Angeles, and shared the skyline with only a few structures having decorative towers, including the Richfield Tower and the Eastern Columbia Building.
The building was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1976.
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Triforium
Los Angeles CA
~0.19 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Children's Museum
Los Angeles CA
~0.19 miles from Los Angeles city center
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This museum's 20 hands-on exhibits make learning fun. Children between 2 and 12 years old enjoy role-playing as the driver of a bus in the City Streets exhibit. In the Cave of the Dinosaurs, visitors can experience primitive life in their own cave. Art activities and other events take place on a regular basis.
The museum is currently closed.
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Japanese American Museum
Los Angeles CA
~0.30 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Japanese American National Museum opened its doors in 1992. The museum is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California. It is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. The museum is home to a moving image archive, which contains over 100,000 feet of 16 mm and 8 mm home movies of Japanese Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s. The museum also contains artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories of Japanese Americans.
The museum contains over 130 years of Japanese American history, dating back to the first Issei generation. In 1997, the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center was established by Robert A. Nakamura and Karen L. Ishizuka, to develop new ways to document, preserve and make known the experiene of Americans of Japanese Ancestry. In 1999, the Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center (HNRC) was established to provide access to the museum's information and resources, both at the facility and online, and documents both the life and culture of the Japanese Americans.
The museum currently has three exhibitions. Common Ground: The Heart of Community focuses on early immigration into the United States to the present day by presenting various art, artifacts and media. The second exhibition is titled Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art which details the Japanse tradition of flower arrangement, ikebana, while displaying a contemporary expression. It began on June 15, 2008 and ends September 7, 2008. The third and most recent exhibition started on July 12, 2008 and is titled GLORIOUS EXCESS (BORN). This exhibition presents Mike Shinoda's paintings and artwork. It ends on August 3, 2008 and is presented in two parts.
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Chinese American Museum
Los Angeles CA
~0.35 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Symbolically housed in the oldest and last surviving structure of Los Angeles’ original Chinatown, the 7,200 square foot Chinese American Museum (CAM) embodies both a cultural and physical link to the past and a promising point of entry for the city’s multicultural future. Opened on December 18, 2003 after 20 years of dedicated community and civic leadership and support, CAM’s presence at El Pueblo de Historical Monument-- a 44-acre public park honored as the city's "birthplace" as well as the site of original Chinatown-- heralds a rebirth of an important city architecture and reflects the vibrant development of an immigrant history that began over 150 years ago in America, specifically when the first major Chinese settlement was documented in Los Angeles in the 1860s. As a visual symbol of new and emerging traditions, CAM is proud to serve as an active-learning institution dedicated to researching, preserving and sharing the stories, experiences and contributions of Chinese Americans in the United States through quality exhibitions, programs, events, publications and workshops.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Chinese American Museum (CAM) is to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of America’s diverse heritage by researching, preserving, and sharing the history, rich cultural legacy, and continuing contributions of Chinese Americans.
Museum History
The Chinese American Museum (CAM) is the first museum in Southern California dedicated to the Chinese American experience and history in this region.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Museum of Neon Art
Los Angeles CA
~0.35 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles CA
~0.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The Pavilion has 3,197 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich décor. The auditorium's sections are the Orchestra (divided in Premiere Orchestra, Center Orchestra, Main Orchestra and Orchestra Ring), Circle (divided in Grand Circle and Founders Circle), Loge (divide in Front Loge and Rear Loge), as well as Balcony (divided in Front Balcony and Rear Balcony).
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Los Angeles CA
~0.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, also called the Los Angeles Cathedral, is a cathedral church of the United States in Los Angeles, California. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and seat of its archbishop, currently Roger Cardinal Mahony.
Consecrated and dedicated on September 2, 2002, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels replaced the smaller Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, which was severely damaged in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. While some felt St. Vibiana's Cathedral was irreparably damaged, the site was eventually taken over by the city which sold the former cathedral building to developer Tom Gilmore in 1999 for $4.6M. Gilmore has spent an additional $6M renovating it and turning it into a performing arts complex, now named "Vibiana."
It is mother church to over four million professed Catholics in the archdiocese. Our Lady of the Angels is home to the relics of Saint Vibiana, brought from Rome by Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, the first bishop of Los Angeles.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Music Center
Los Angeles CA
~0.41 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall. (REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, is located below Walt Disney Concert Hall but is only loosely associated with 'The Music Center.') Each year, the Music Center welcomes more than 2.3 million people to performances by its four internationally renowned performing arts companies: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Center Theatre Group (CTG), L.A. Opera and Los Angeles Master Chorale.
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Museum Contemporary Art
Los Angeles
~0.42 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Chinatown (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~0.49 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Chinatown in Los Angeles, California (Chinese: ??????; pinyin: luò shan ji táng rén jie) is a Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles that was founded in the late 1800s. It was originally located less than a mile from its current location where Union Station is located.
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Music Center and Disney Hall
Los Angeles CA
~0.58 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
U.S. Bank Tower
Los Angeles CA
~0.64 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Downtown (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~0.66 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The area features many of the city's major arts institutions and sports facilities, sightseeing opportunities, a variety of skyscrapers and associated large multinational corporations and an array of public art and unique shopping opportunities. Downtown is the hub of the city's freeway network and growing Metro rapid transit system.
Though Downtown is generally thought to be bounded by the Los Angeles River on the east, the Hollywood (101) Freeway to the north, the Santa Monica (10) Freeway on the south and the Harbor (110) Freeway on the west, some sources, including the Los Angeles Downtown News and Los Angeles Times, extend the area past the traditional boundary to include University Park and Exposition Park (encompassing the University of Southern California (USC) and Central City West neighborhoods.
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Central Public Library
Los Angeles CA
~0.66 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Richard Riordan Central Library, originally constructed in 1926, is a downtown Los Angeles landmark. It is the third largest public library in the United States in terms of book and periodical holdings. Originally simply the Central Library, the building was renamed in honor of the longtime president of the Board of Library Commissioners and President of the University of Southern California, Rufus B. von KleinSmid. The building was subsequently renamed in 2001 after Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.
Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue designed the original Los Angeles Central Library to mimic the architecture of ancient Egypt. The central tower is topped with a tiled mosaic pyramid with suns on either side with a hand holding a torch representing the "Light of Learning" at the apex. Other elements include sphinxes, snakes, and celestial mosaics. It has similarities to the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska, also designed by Goodhue and which also featured sculpture by the architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie.
Some of the more notable collections included the Science and Technology Library in a special alcove above the general Science Department which included a complete collection of all Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) publications including the complete Patent Gazette and Trademark Gazette issues from the opening of the PTO. It also included a complete set of the entire registration books published by the Copyright Office starting from Volume 1. These collections were restored when the Central Library reopened.
It was extensively renovated and expanded in a "Modernist/Beaux Arts style" (according to the principal architect of the renovation Norman Pfeiffer) from 1988 through 1993, including an enormous, eight-story atrium dedicated to former mayor Tom Bradley. The interior of the library is decorated with various figures, statues, chandeliers, and grilles, notably a four-part mural by illustrator Dean Cornwell depicting stages of the history of California.
The building's limited access had caused a number of problems. Generally, the accessible public stacks in the reading rooms only displayed about 10-20% of the actual collections of the Central Library. For anything else, a patron had to submit a request slip and a clerk would retrieve the desired material from the internal stacks. Internal stacks were packed very tightly and had very little headroom. For example, while the normal reading rooms had ceilings of anywhere from ten to fifteen feet, the internal stack areas were many shelves of about six-foot height, stacked internally, so that while the public access area was about two floors plus the Science and Technology alcove, the internal stacks were approximately five or six floors. To fix this would have required substantial renovation, a cost the city was not willing to cover, especially after hours of operation were cut in response to the 1978 property tax reduction measure Proposition 13.
The catalyst for the renovation was the devastating arson fire of April 29, 1986. Although the building was safely evacuated, its vintage construction precluded the ventilation of heat and smoke, and limited firefighter access. Some 400,000 volumes—20 percent of the library's holdings—were destroyed, with significant water and smoke damage done to the surviving works. A second fire on September 3 of the same year destroyed the contents of the Music Department Reading Room.
As part of the rehabilitation plan, the LAPL sold its air rights to developers, enabling the construction of the eponymous Library Tower (later renamed the U.S. Bank Tower as well as an earlier period when the building was called the First Interstate World Center) skyscraper across the street. Additional funds were raised through corporate and personal contributions which flowed from the effort of the "Save The Books" campaign formed by Mayor Tom Bradley.
The campaign, co-chaired by Lodwrick Cook, then CEO of Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO) had targeted a goal to raise $10 million through corporate and individual contributions (ranging from schoolchildren's nickels and dimes to $50,000 contributions by Los Angeles businessman Marvin Davis and MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman). Dr. Gene Scott (w. eugene Scott, Ph.D.), an LAPL neighbor and member of the 43 strong blue ribbon committee, donated the use of his University Network television studios and himself to what became a 48-hour telethon to raise $2 million towards the total objective.
The Library's renovation was completed in 1993. The Central Library reopened on October 3, 1993.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Staples Center - LA Clippers - LA lakers - LA Kings
Los Angeles
~1.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles
~1.40 miles from Los Angeles city center
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In Chavez Ravine, on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles. The stadium was known as Chavez Ravine when the Angels were playing there.
Dodger Stadium is a stadium in Los Angeles, California, United States. Located adjacent to Downtown Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium has been the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers team since 1962. Dodger Stadium was constructed from 1959 to 1962 at a cost of $23 million paid for through private financing. Dodger Stadium is currently the third oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball (behind Fenway Park in Boston and Wrigley Field in Chicago,) and is the largest ballpark by seating capacity.
The stadium hosted the 1980 MLB All-Star Game, as well as games of the 1963, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, and 1988 World Series. It also hosted the semifinals and finals of the 2009 World Baseball Classic as well as exhibition baseball during the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Convention Center (Downtown)
Los Angeles CA
~1.49 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The Convention Center opened in 1971 and expanded in 1993 and 1997. The northeast portion of the Center was demolished in 1997 to make way for the Staples Center.
The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3. The LACC also gained notoriety for hosting Celebration IV. Its newest major events were Erotica-LA (June 7–9, 2008), Anime Expo, (July 2 – 5, 2009), where more than 44,000 fans attended in 2009[1], and the Governors' Ball following the Primetime Emmys beginning in September 2008.
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Westlake (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~1.49 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Pico Union (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~1.84 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Echo Park
Los Angeles CA
~1.88 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Echo Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.
At the end of the 19th century, when the hills were still covered with native plants and grasses, a horse-drawn streetcar line served the dirt road that is now Echo Park Ave. The community of Echo Park was founded by Thomas Kelly, a carriage maker turned real estate developer. In the late 1880s Kelly teamed up with a group of local investors, selling off pieces of what they called "the Montana Tract." Legend says that the lake got its name after workers building the reservoir remarked that their voices echoed off the canyon walls.
Echo Park was named Edendale before the construction of the park itself. The original name survives through the U.S. Post Office Edendale branch and the Edendale branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
The Los Angeles film industry was centered in Echo Park before the studios moved to Hollywood, just before World War I. Mack Sennett's studio was in Echo Park until the end of the silent era, and a large number of silent comedies were shot in the neighborhood, as were several Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Our Gang, Ben Turpin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Charley Chase, Chester Conklin, and Three Stooges shorts. Tom Mix also built his studio just over the hill in the Silverlake area, and many Westerns were shot in hills of Echo Park, East Silverlake and the Elysian Hills. Some of the earliest screen performers, including Gloria Swanson and Tom Mix, bought homes in the Angelino Heights and surrounding neighborhoods before moving to Hollywood and other areas.
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Elysian Park (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~1.92 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Elysian Park is the city's oldest public park and, at 575-acres, the second largest after Griffith Park. It is home to numerous historic sites, including the Los Angeles Police Academy and Barlow Hospital, that are linked by miles of walking trails.
In 1769, Gaspar de Portola and Father Juan Crespi camped on the river bank opposite Buena Vista Hill near the North Broadway Bridge entrance to Elysian Park. Yang-Na Indian villagers from the creeks of Solano Canyon and the current location of the Los Angeles Police Academy greeted the Spaniards with native refreshments.
In 1781, the Pueblo of Los Angeles was officially established by Spanish California Governor Felipe de Neve with the Royal Grant of 4 square Spanish leagues (translated into 28 square miles or about 17,000 acres) of Pueblo Lands. Of this public land grant, the approximately 575-acre Elysian Park is the last remaining large piece. All else has been auctioned off or given away. Los Angeles even had to buy back the site of the present City Hall.
One of the first American official acts was the Ord Survey of 1849 to record the boundaries of these Pueblo Lands so they could be auctioned to produce city revenue. Elysian Park was then known as Rock Quarry Hills for the building stone mined in the area. But instead of being sold, the Rock Quarry Hills area were "reserved" for public purpose and withdrawn from public auction.
In 1886, the Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles dedicated the Rock Quarry Hills as a city park forever, and renamed it Elysian Park (Elysian is derived from the Greek word paradise). Subsequent city charters have protected dedicated park lands and their use for park purposes in perpetuity.
These are rare charter provisions, as city charters go, and have given parkland protectors a firm legal base for organized support of dedicated park land in the City of Los Angeles. It is upon this legal base that the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park has fought for two decades to retain park lands for park purposes.
Every effort is being made to establish the historical significance of this public park in order to conserve it for future generations as a part of the Santa Monica Mountains system of urban open space vital to the survival of the human, animal and botanical denizens of these historic parklands.
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Angelus Temple
Los Angeles CA
~1.95 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
MacArthur Park
Los Angeles CA
~2.11 miles from Los Angeles city center
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MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park) is a park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated city of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.
The park is divided in two by Wilshire Boulevard. The southern portion primarily consists of a lake, while the northern half includes an amphitheatre, bandshell, soccer fields, and a children's playground along with a recreation center operated by the city of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. The bandshell, recently renovated as the Levitt Pavilion - MacArthur Park, is once again the host of jazz, big band, salsa music, and world music concerts. Since reopening it hosts at least 50 free concerts each summer between June and September.
The lake in MacArthur Park is fed by natural springs (although an artificial bottom to the lake was laid during the construction of the L.A. Metro Red Line, opened in 1993). In the past, a fountain with a reflecting pool on the northern end was also fed by the springs.
The Metro Red Line runs beneath MacArthur Park, and the train line can be accessed through the adjacent Westlake/MacArthur Park station.
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Silver Lake (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~2.52 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Cypress Park (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~2.74 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Cypress Park is a neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, California, United States.
Cypress Park is one of the first suburbs of Los Angeles.[citation needed] It was developed mostly in the early 20th Century as a working class neighborhood whose main attraction was its proximity to the nearby railroad yards. The population back then was predominantly white and Italian-American.[citation needed]
Currently Cypress Park has a predominately Spanish speaking Latino population. However like many communities in the surrounding area, Cypress Park is undergoing rapid gentrification due to its proximity to both Downtown Los Angeles and Silverlake, plus easy commutes via three freeways (the 5, the 110, and the 2) to Hollywood, Burbank, Pasadena, and the San Fernando Valley.
Cypress Park was the long-time home of the Jeffries family who had a large Victorian house and estate at Cypress Ave and Figueroa St., now the site of Florence Nightingale Middle School. One of the Jeffries' children was James J. Jeffries, the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1899-1905. The Jeffries Family developed one of the real estate tracts in Cypress Park known as the Jeffries-Highland View Tract,[citation needed] and there is a street named after them, Jeffries Avenue, that goes from the Los Angeles River Center at Avenue 26 to Isabel Street.
Another notable historic home in Cypress Park is at 901 Isabel St, a 1905 Greek Revival Mansion designed by John C. Austin, architect of the Griffith Observatory and Los Angeles City Hall.[citation needed]
Cypress Park is also home to The Los Angeles River Center, formerly Lawry's Restaurant, as well as Footsie's, a local bar popular with east-side hipsters.[citation needed]
Cypress Park is represented by the Greater Cypress Park Neighborhood Council.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Lincoln Heights (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~2.93 miles from Los Angeles city center
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Lincoln Heights is a neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles, California.
Lincoln Heights is bounded by the Los Angeles River on the west, the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) on the south, and Indiana Street on the east; the district's northern border is unclear due to the area's uneven terrain. Adjacent communities include El Sereno on the east, City Terrace on the southeast, Boyle Heights on the south, Chinatown and Solano Canyon on the west, Cypress Park on the northwest, Mt. Washington on the north, and Montecito Heights on the northeast. Major thoroughfares include Valley Boulevard; Mission Road; Pasadena Avenue; North Main, Marengo, Daly, and Figueroa Streets; and North Broadway. The Golden State Freeway (I-5) runs through the district, and the Metro Gold Line has a stop in the far northwestern portion of the district. Lincoln Heights' ZIP Code is 90031.
Lincoln Heights is considered to be the oldest neighborhood in Los Angeles, dating to the 1830s. Perched on bluffs above the Los Angeles River, it was originally home to some of the city's wealthiest residents, who built a large number of Victorian mansions in the district (many of which have been preserved under the city's historic preservation program). North Broadway became a busy commercial strip, which it remains today. By the turn of the 20th century, however, the rapid industrial development along the riverbanks made it less appealing for wealthy Angelenos, who moved on first to the Arroyo Seco area and Hollywood, then (from the 1920s onward) to rapidly developing Mid-Wilshire. As wealthy residents departed, Lincoln Heights became home to a large Italian American population, as well as an increasingly large Mexican American population. It and its cross-river neighbor "Little Italy" (what is now Chinatown) formed the heart of southern California's Italian-American community. One of the major landmarks from this period, the San Antonio Winery, continues to operate today, albeit with non-local grapes.
Beginning just after World War II, Italians and some Mexicans began migrating out of Lincoln Heights and into working-class and middle-class suburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, including Alhambra, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Montebello,California, and Temple City, California . This process accelerated during the 1950s with the construction of the Golden State Freeway, which split the district right down the middle and devastated the neighborhoods through which it passed. Ever since, Lincoln Heights has been a poor-to-working class Chicano and Latin American immigrant barrio. Many ethnic Chinese immigrants from Vietnam and their US-born children also reside in Lincoln Heights, due to its proximity to Chinatown.
The case of the missing child Walter Collins was kidnapped in his home in Lincoln Heights. The Clint Eastwood film Changeling was based on it.
As of the 2005 census Lincoln Heights had an estimated population of 80,000, one of the largest of any Los Angeles neighborhood. The racial makeup of the neighborhood is 80.1% Latino, 17.3% Asian, 3.6% were Non-Hispanic Black and White. Lincoln Heights is known for its Hispanic population as well as its growing Asian population, but many Italians still reside in the area.
North Broadway is Lincoln Heights' focal point with its various restaurants and grocery stores. Councilman Ed Reyes's office is in the south Broadway area nearer to Downtown LA.
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
Heritage Square
Los Angeles CA
~3.23 miles from Los Angeles city center
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A living history museum reflecting the settlement and development of Southern California from the Civil War to the early 20th Century, Heritage Square Museum offers visitors a look into the everyday lives of Southern Californians at the close of the 19th Century.
Guided tours of the museum are supplemented by special events, such as Museums of the Arroyo Day®, which take our guests back in time to the era where electricity was a novelty, a trip to the beach was often a full-weekend activity, and manners were distinctly different from those of today.
The eight historic structures located at the museum, constructed during the Victorian Era, were saved from demolition and serve as a perfect background to educate the public about Southern California's early development. From the simplicity of the Octagon House to the opulence of the Perry Mansion, the Museum provides a unique look at the lifestyles of the people who contributed so much to the development of modern Los Angeles.
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
University of Southern California (USC)
Los Angeles CA
~3.38 miles from Los Angeles city center
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Los Angeles
California African American Museum
Los Angeles CA
~3.41 miles from Los Angeles city center
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The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The museum opened in 1981, in temporary quarters at the California Museum of Science and Industry (now the California Science Center). The current facility was built with State and private funds of around $5 million. The museum was designed by the African–American architects Jack Haywood and (the late) Vince Proby. The new museum building opened to the public during the Los Angeles Olympic Games in July 1984. A major renovation occurred between 2001 and 2003.
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