1st Street, Los Angeles
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1st Street is an east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles and Monterey Park, California. It serves as a postal divider between north and south and is one of a few streets to run across the Los Angeles River. Though it serves as a major road east of downtown Los Angeles, it is a mostly residential street to the west.[1]
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For over a mile between Hoover Street and Glendale Boulevard, 1st Street is synonymous with Beverly Boulevard.
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Transportation[]
The L Line runs on east 1st Street between Alameda and Indiana Streets; it operates the Little Tokyo/Arts District, Pico/Aliso, Mariachi Plaza, Soto and Indiana stations. Metro Local line 14 runs through west 1st Street and Metro Local line 30 through East 1st Street. The under construction Metro Regional Connector will have a new light rail subway station on the intersection of 1st Street and Central Avenue.[2][3]
Film history[]
First Street was a location background filmed during the movie Blood In Blood Out (originally: Bound by Honor).[4][failed verification]
Downtown bridges[]
Walking through these historic bridges in Downtown Los Angeles since 1910 to the 1930s had been a leisure and pastime for some people. In the book Down By The Los Angeles River written by Joe Linton he narrates the readers on a walking path starting from First Street Bridge.[5] LA voters in 1924 passed the Viaduct Bond Act that would allocate 2 million dollars through a tax, the funds allocated would go towards revitalizing the Downtown Los Angeles Bridges.[5]The friends of the Los Angeles River mobilized the La Gran Limpieza to clean up the Los Angeles River with an educational feature where they invited elementary, middle, and high school students.[6] A collaboration the friends of the Los Angeles had was with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps’ Clean & Green program that monitored the water quality at the rivers monthly.[7] Under their collaborated event efforts activities included cleaning up trash, science experiments, educational workshop, and familiarize participants with the L.A river bridges themselves since events would be facilitated there to create community identity.[8]
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Notable landmarks[]
- Monterey Park Village (eastern terminus)
- Beverly Center (western terminus)
- CBS West Coast Headquarters
- Disney Concert Hall
- Grand Park
- Los Angeles City Hall
- Caltrans District 7 Headquarters
- Little Tokyo
- Mariachi Plaza
- The intersection of East 1st and Chicago streets in Boyle Heights is named Dolores Huerta Square.[9]
References[]
- ^ Exact location of First Street
- ^ "1st St/Central Av Station". www.metro.net. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
- ^ "Regional Connector Transit Project". www.metro.net. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
- ^ "Blood In Blood Out: Filming & Production".
- ^ a b Joe., Linton (2010). Down By The Los Angeles River : Friends Of The Los Angeles Rivers Official Guide. Recorded Books, Inc. Berkeley: Wilderness Press. ISBN 9780899975986. OCLC 948035663.
- ^ Linton, Joe (2005). Down by the Los Angeles River. Berkeley: Wilderness Press.
- ^ Linton, Joe (2005). Down by the Los Angeles River. Berkeley: Wilderness Press.
- ^ Linton, Joe (2005). Down by the Los Angeles River. Berkeley: Wilderness Press.
- ^ City News Service (June 22, 2019). "Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta gets an intersection named for her in Boyle Heights today". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
External links[]
Media related to 1st Street (Los Angeles) at Wikimedia Commons
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- Eastside Los Angeles