Information about Broadway (los Angeles)
Broadway is a major road in the city of Los Angeles and it is also a major road through downtown Los Angeles. It starts off at Mission Road in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood and it heads due west (although signs along the street read "North Broadway"). After crossing the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5), it curves to the southwest, passing through the old railyards north of downtown before descending into Chinatown, passing through Central Plaza and the Dragon Gate. After crossing Cesar Chavez Avenue and the Hollywood Freeway, Broadway enters the Los Angeles Civic Center. It then passes the Los Angeles Times building at First Street and enters the historic downtown commercial district.
One of the oldest streets in the city, this section of Broadway (originally called Fort Street) was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord. Broadway from First Street to Olympic Boulevard was for more than fifty years the main commercial street of Los Angeles and one of its premier entertainment districts as well. This commercial and theatre district contains a vast number of historic commercial buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Between Third Street and Olympic Blvd there are a dozen historic theaters, the largest surviving collection of pre-WWII theatres in the United States, Including the 1918 Million Dollar Theater, the first Los Angeles Movie palace built by Sid Grauman. Other historically significant Downtown buildings along Broadway include the Bradbury Building and the Julia Morgan-designed .
Metro Local 40, 45, 46, and Metro Rapid 740 and 745 operate on Broadway.
As of May 2007, there are plans to close of Broadway to car traffic between 2nd. and 9th streets to widen sidewalks. The street would only be accessible for buses and delivery trucks.
Main route of the Interstate Highway System
1381.29 mi[1] (0 km)
1957
MX 1 at Mexican border in San Ysidro, CA
I-8 in San Diego, CA
I-10 in Los Angeles, CA
I-80 in Sacramento, CA
I-84 in Portland, OR
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Front page from October 23, 2006
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Tribune Company
Publisher David D. Hiller
Editor Jim O'Shea
Founded December 4, 1881
Headquarters 202 West 1st Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
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One of the oldest streets in the city, this section of Broadway (originally called Fort Street) was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord. Broadway from First Street to Olympic Boulevard was for more than fifty years the main commercial street of Los Angeles and one of its premier entertainment districts as well. This commercial and theatre district contains a vast number of historic commercial buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Between Third Street and Olympic Blvd there are a dozen historic theaters, the largest surviving collection of pre-WWII theatres in the United States, Including the 1918 Million Dollar Theater, the first Los Angeles Movie palace built by Sid Grauman. Other historically significant Downtown buildings along Broadway include the Bradbury Building and the Julia Morgan-designed .
Metro Local 40, 45, 46, and Metro Rapid 740 and 745 operate on Broadway.
As of May 2007, there are plans to close of Broadway to car traffic between 2nd. and 9th streets to widen sidewalks. The street would only be accessible for buses and delivery trucks.
External links
- USC Geography Department Old Broadway page
- You-are-here Broadway Photo Gallery
- The Broadway Initiative of the Los Angeles Conservency
- The Broadway Theatre Tour
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Nickname: The City of Angels, L.A.
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Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood
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Lincoln Heights is a neighborhood northeast of downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Golden State Freeway
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I-10 in Boyle Heights
CA-134 in North Hollywood
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1964 (from US-99)
North/South
I-10 in Boyle Heights
CA-134 in North Hollywood
CA-170 in Burbank
I-405 in Mission Hills
I-210 in San Fernando
CA-14 in Santa Clarita
SR 99 in Lebec
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Main route of the Interstate Highway System
1381.29 mi[1] (0 km)
1957
MX 1 at Mexican border in San Ysidro, CA
I-8 in San Diego, CA
I-10 in Los Angeles, CA
I-80 in Sacramento, CA
I-84 in Portland, OR
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Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles, California, (Chinese: 洛杉磯唐人街/luò shān jī táng rén jiē) was originally located less than a mile from its current location.
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Hollywood Freeway
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1966
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CA-110 in Hollywood
CA-134 in North Hollywood
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Maintained by CalTrans
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CA-110 in Hollywood
CA-134 in North Hollywood
I-5 in Burbank
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Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles and a complex of city, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.
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Front page from October 23, 2006
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Tribune Company
Publisher David D. Hiller
Editor Jim O'Shea
Founded December 4, 1881
Headquarters 202 West 1st Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
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Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18 1818 – July 22 1883) was the designer of Fort Sam Houston, and a U.S. Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War.
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National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) established the National Register and the process for adding properties
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3rd Street in Los Angeles is a major east-west street. It begins in downtown Beverly Hills by Santa Monica Boulevard and ends at Alameda Street in Downtown Los Angeles, although east of Alameda, it becomes 4th Street, where it heads to East Los Angeles, where it turns back into 3rd
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Olympic Boulevard is a major arterial road in Los Angeles, California. It stretches from 4th Street on the western end of Santa Monica to East Los Angeles—farther than Wilshire Boulevard and most other streets.
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Location: 307 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, California
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Built/Founded: 1917
Architect: A.C.
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Los Angeles, California
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Built/Founded: 1917
Architect: A.C.
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Movie palace is a US English synonym for movie theater, but nowadays usually used within the USA for the grand cinemas of the 1910s to early 1960s, contrasting with modern multiplexes. In the United Kingdom such cinemas are referred to as picture palaces.
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Sidney Patrick Grauman (March 17, 1879 - March 5, 1950) was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater.
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Location: 304 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California
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Built/Founded: 1893
Architect: George H.
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Built/Founded: 1893
Architect: George H.
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Julia Morgan
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Name Julia Morgan
Nationality American
Birth date January 20 1872
Birth place San Francisco, United States
Date of death January 2 1957 (aged 0)
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Name Julia Morgan
Nationality American
Birth date January 20 1872
Birth place San Francisco, United States
Date of death January 2 1957 (aged 0)
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