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Los Angeles is the largest city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States, with a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census.
Los Angeles has gained the reputation as the "murder capital of the world" due to the high crime rate and as a high-speed police pursuit capital due to the large numbers of car chases that are televised on local television.
For example, Downtown Los Angeles is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by the freeways that ring the area: The Harbor Freeway to the west, the Hollywood Freeway to the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and the San Bernardino Freeway to the south.
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 Highland Park, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Highland Park is a district in on the East Side of Los Angeles.
One of the oldest settled areas of Los Angeles, Highland Park is also one of the most scenic due to its architecture and geographic location between the Mt. Washington hills, the San Rafael hills and the Monterey Hills.
Across the eastern edge of the Arroyo Seco, it is a condominium/townhome complex of 1,900 homes.
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 Bob Taylor Properties, Inc. - Los Angeles, CA
Geographically, the Arroyo Seco, literally "dry creek" is the most prominent feature of the northeast Los Angeles landscape.
The great, long canyon of the Arroyo Seco extends from the foot of the San Gabriel mountains north of Pasadena, southward along the western edge of South Pasadena.
The Arroyo Seco, which is dry most of the year, served as a primitive hunting ground for the area's earliest residents.
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 Arroyo Seco Foundation, Pasadena, Los Angeles, river, stream, watershed
The Arroyo Seco stream is still wet from the record winter rains, but that does not stop the work to restore the stream in the region.
The cooperation of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works was also required to cut the flow from Devil's Gate Dam so the concrete could be removed.
The Arroyo Seco Restoration Project, one of the first Arroyo Seco Master Plan projects to be implemented, is supported by the California Resources Agency with funds from the Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection and Flood Protection Act of 2000 (Proposition 13).
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 Highland Park Heritage Trust Manana
Adopted by the City Council of Los Angeles in 1994, the Highland Park HPOZ is the largest such district in Los Angeles and was the first to also include both residential and commercial structures.
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument applications are still an important part of the activities of the Highland Park Heritage Trust.
The construction of the Los Angeles to San Gabriel Railroad in 1885, linking the two prosperous communities of Los Angeles and Pasadena, contributed greatly to the first major real estate boom in the hilly area then known as the Highlands.
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 ArroyoFest: Freeway Walk and Bike Ride: June 15, 2003
The Arroyo Seco is the ideal place to begin to reweave the connections we’ve lost over the last hundred years.
The Arroyo Seco Parkway (otherwise known as the Pasadena 110 Freeway) is the oldest freeway in the American West.
In the early 1900s, the Arroyo Seco was at the heart of the arts and crafts movement in California and many landmarks from this era are still standing.
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Los Angeles has the richest ethnic mix in the country, and this is evident in its fashion, music, language and food.
Los Angeles has world class restaurants and hotels, more theaters and museums than any other city in the country, and dozens of beautiful parks and hiking trails within the city limits.
Los Angeles is a world renowned tourist destination and lives up to everything you’ve ever heard about this dynamic and exciting city.
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 Western Riverside County MSHCP
Arroyo toads are found in foothill canyons and inter-mountain valleys where the river is bordered by low hills and the stream gradient is low (Miller and Miller 1936, Sweet 1992).
Arroyo toads are known to either breed, forage, and/or aestivate in aquatic habitats, riparian, coastal sage scrub, oak, and chaparral habitats.
The northern occurrence of Bufo californicus in California.
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 Arroyo Seco River
The Arroyo Seco is one of the few tributaries of the Salinas River that sustains a small population of the threatened steelhead trout, a federally protected species that migrates all the way from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in the clean riffles and deep cold pools of the river.
The upper Arroyo Seco River also has two popular campgrounds that can be used as base camps to explore the river's source and several tributaries in the Ventana Wilderness.
Downstream of the National Forest boundary, the Arroyo Seco River flows through a gravelly floodplain that supports one of the largest native sycamore forests in central California.
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 Interstate 110 California @ Interstate-Guide.com
It is an Interstate Highway between its junction with California 47 near San Pedro north to Interstate 10 near Downtown Los Angeles.
California 11 was accepted into the Interstate Highway System in 1978, and the route was renumbered in 1981 as Interstate 110 (and California 110 for the non-Interstate standard sections) to conform to Interstate route number standards.
The section of the California 110 freeway northeast of Interstate 5 is currently known as the Pasadena Freeway, but it was originally known as the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which was built in the 1940s and 1950s.
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 Welcome to the Arroyo Seco
In Southern California, about half of a home’s water use is applied outdoors, so making sure that we are using that water efficiently is a very important part of water conservation.
The condos have crept down the Arroyo slopes to clutter the entrance to the Arroyo and block the view of the majestic Colorado Street Bridge.
A Greenway Runs Through It The Arroyo Seco Greenway is a dynamic new framework to link the efforts of organizations and public agencies working to improve and enhance the Arroyo Seco watershed.
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 Arroyo Seco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Arroyo Seco Converges with the Los Angeles River
The intersection of the 5 and the 110 Freeways marks the convergence of the Arroyo Seco and the Los Angeles River.
Dennis Crowley and the Arroyo Seco Bikeway Project have been involved in developing the Arroyo Seco Bikeway proposal which would connect downtown Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles, and will be part of a larger system of L.A. bike paths.
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 Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arroyo Seco, for dry (seco) gulch (arroyo) is the section of Los Angeles, California between the hills which divide the City of Los Angeles from the valley which contains Pasadena, Altadena and the other municipalities which lead into the San Gabriel Valley.
This Southern California location article is a stub.
This page was last modified 02:34, 27 August 2005.
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 BIRDING DEBS PARK
Ernest E. Debs Park, located along the Arroyo Seco just north of downtown Los Angeles, is a little-known but exciting spot to bird.
California Quail has apparently been lost to hunting, fire, feral pets, or all three.
Wildflowers, so rare within Los Angeles, are encountered along road cuts and in patches of native bunchgrass, including Golden-stars, Wild Hyacinth, and Blue-eyed Grass.
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 Plan Your Trip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The cultural acropolis to downtown Los Angeles, the Grand Avenue promenade is a new pedestrian spine for the city's glittering cultural life.
The Los Angeles Chinese community moved to its current location during the 1930s, when their original neighborhood became the site of Union Station.
Elysian Park is the oldest public park in the city of Los Angeles.
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 Nelanet.org - The Arroyo Seco and Highland Park
The Arroyo Seco region was in the early 20th century a major gateway between downtown Los Angeles and regions to the northwest (the San Fernando Valley) and the east (the San Gabriel Valley).
Topographically, Northeast Los Angeles is isolated and hidden within its hills and valleys, bordered and bypassed by four freeways and divided by the Los Angeles River and its tributary, the Arroyo Seco.
The Northeast was once lushly foliated with Sycamore trees and California native plants, breezy and grassy foothills which afforded spectacular views of both downtown and the backdrop of the San Gabriel mountains, and remarkable geologic curiosa such as Eagle Rock, a giant spherical granite monument with the imprint of an eagle in flight.
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 USGSSIR 04-5296 Geological, Hydrological, and Biological Issues Related to the Proposed Development of a Park at the ...
USGSSIR 04-5296 Geological, Hydrological, and Biological Issues Related to the Proposed Development of a Park at the Confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles County, California
A new park is being considered for the confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles County, California.
Components of the park development may include creation of a temporary lake on the Los Angeles River, removal of channel lining along part of the Arroyo Seco, restoration of native plants, creation of walking paths, and building of facilities such as a boat ramp and a visitor center.
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 Los Angeles, California CA, city profile (Los Angeles County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
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Los Angeles is a city in Los Angeles County.
In the mid-1800s, Los Angeles was a rough cow town, with frequent violence between Anglos and Mexicans.
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 PreserveLA - Historic Preservation in Los Angeles - Arroyo Seco Parkway
The Arroyo Seco Parkway was named a National Scenic Byway in 2002, the first designation for any roadway in Southern California and the first truly urban road to be recognized.
The study area centers on the roadway and its surrounding view corridor, starting at the four-level interchange in downtown Los Angeles and ending at Arroyo Parkway and Colorado in downtown Pasadena.
The Los Angeles River Center is located at 570 West Avenue 26 in Los Angeles, using the Avenue 26 offramp of the Arroyo Seco Parkway or via the Metro Goldline’s Lincoln Heights/Cypress Station.
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 Railroad - Things To Do In Los Angeles
This bridge, circa 1895, is the highest such structure in Los Angeles County and probably the oldest one in use.
Between North Broadway on the west, North Spring Street on the east, northward to the Los Angeles River and the southeasterly corner of Elysian Park, southward to the Capital Milling Company Building, contained many vestiges of 19th Century railroading: freight yards, warehouses, tracks, switch houses, docks and cobblestone pavement.
For even the most sophisticated traveler, the Los Angeles Union Station Terminal, typically Californian in aspect, is likely to evoke some of the excitement and nostalgia of days gone by.
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 Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Arroyo Seco is perhaps best known for the scenic Arroyo Seco Parkway (110 Freeway), the first freeway built in the West Few drivers notice the stream channel running along the Parkway, yet it was that stream that fueled the imaginations of many of the adventurers and artists who came to settle the area.
The Arroyo Seco Subwatershed of the Los Angeles River covers an area of 47 square miles.
The Arroyo Seco Subwatershed includes portions of the Angeles National Forest, the cities of La CaƱada-Flintridge, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Los Angeles, and the community of Altadena.
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 Audubon: Birds & Science
Of the WatchList species, Nuttall's Woodpecker is a familiar resident of Debs Park, and tends not to breed in the surrounding urban areas.
As California residents can imagine, these thrashers, which number about 5 birds within the park, are hounded mercilessly by the more common Northern Mockingbird, an urban species abundant in the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Audubon California is hopeful that with continued habitat restoration within the local watershed (Pasadena's Arroyo Seco), Debs Park's native birds will become less isolated from upstream populations and will continue to thrive.
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 Arroyo Seco Medical Group - Providers - Anchel Furman, M.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Furman received his doctor of medicine degree from the University Medical School at Saratov, U.S.S.R. He completed his internship and residency in USSR in 1972 and moved to Israel in 1974, where he completed his internship and residency and subsequently became attending physician at the Telshomer Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel (1974 - 1988).
He then completed a residency in internal medicine at the Los Angeles County - USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California (1993).
He joined the Arroyo Seco Medical Group in 1993, and has an open and enthusiastic style.
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 Craftsman - Things To Do In Los Angeles
It is one of the few large-scale Craftsman structures in Los Angeles.
It is an archetype of the California Craftsman bungalow with exterior shingle siding and fine interior woodwork.
Thomas W. Phillips was one of the founding residents of Los Angeles.
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 Arroyo Seco, Switzer Falls to confluence with Bear Creek
USGS Arroyo Seco gage) was too low to do the run to JPL, so we opted to run the outrageous tiered drop below Switzer Falls and probe the stream down to Bear Creek.
Arroyo Seco, Switzer Picnic Area to Switzer Camp
Arroyo Seco, Bear Creek Trail crossing to JPL
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 Carnegie Libraries of California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It was the second branch built between 1913 and 1916 with a $210,000 Carnegie grant obtained by Los Angeles in 1911 and designated for six branches.
The Arroyo Seco branch can be traced back through the old Garvanza and Highland Park branches to the Stimson Memorial Library at Occidental College.
The building was demolished in 1959 and the new Arroyo Seco branch built on the same site.
carnegie-libraries.org /california/regions/lacounty/la-arroyoseco.html   (118 words)

  
 Highland Park Heritage Trust Accomplishments
Established the largest historic district (the Highland Park HPOZ) in Los Angeles, with over 2,500 Contributing Structures.
A ceremony, held at the Judson Studios, celebrated the first town in Northeast Los Angeles and LA’s first art colony.
1996 — Celebration of the rehabilitation of the Sante Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge — the transportation link that connected Chicago to LA and brought emmigrants from the east at the turn of the Century.
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 PreserveLA - Historic Preservation in Los Angeles - Arroyo Seco in Pasadena
Pasadena Heritage has hired a historic preservation consultant to prepare the documentation nominating the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena to the National Register of Historic Places.
Recognizing the Arroyo as a "cultural landscape," Pasadena Heritage is taking this step in order to call attention to, and formally acknowledge, the rich and varied history of one of Pasadena's most important resources.
"Pasadena's founders, calling themselves the 'Indiana Colony', were first drawn to the natural beauty of the area and purchased land to build their new community along the east bank of the Arroyo Seco, a winding river valley at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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 Arroyo Seco - Los Angeles, California/CA - Public School Profile
Arroyo Seco - Los Angeles, California/CA - Public School Profile
4805 Sycamore Avenue Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90042 - 4482 -
Return to: Los Angeles County public schools, California public schools, Home
www.publicschoolreview.com /school_ov/school_id/9244   (132 words)

  
 Arroyo Seco Medical Group - Providers - Melody Schmidt, PA-C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Melody is a graduate of the University of Southern California Primary Care Physician Assistant Program in Los Angeles, California (1986).
She has been with the Arroyo Seco Medical Group since 1990.
Melody's style is one of openness and honesty and talking with patients about their concerns.
www.arroyoseco.net /Schmidt.htm   (105 words)

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