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Topic: Broadway (Los Angeles)


  
  Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4 1850—five months before California achieved statehood—and is the county seat of Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Persians (Iranians) and Japanese living in the U.S., and has one of the largest Native American populations in the country.
Residents of the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County and various cities within the county are served by the County of Los Angeles Public Library The LAPL is funded by voter-approved bond and tax levy packages.
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Los Angeles teems with quirks, idiosyncrasies, and racing trajectories -- the fascinating fallout from the city's alembic of ambition and invention.
Los Angeles Union Station (Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, to be precise) is located across the street from Olvera Street, where Los Angeles was founded in the 18th Century.
Located in the heart of Los Angeles, USC's two campuses are home to the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and 17 professional schools, as well as one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country.
www.apartments24-7ca.com /virtual/lifestyle/CA/losangeles.asp   (1589 words)

  
 The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Lines in Other California Cities
The promoters of the Los Angeles Cable Railway, Isais W Hellman and James F Crank, studied the first electric line in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Electric Railway, which used the pioneering system of Professor Leo Daft (no kidding).
The Los Angeles Railway purchased the Consolidated on 13-Oct-1893.
The Los Angeles Railway, run by Frederick W Wood, the former general manager of the Temple Street Cable Railway, strung wires over the former LA Cable tracks.
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 Theater Tickets - Los Angeles Theater Tickets - Theatre Tickets
Los Angeles is one of the hot places of American Theatre, active with emerging stars, avant garde directors and breaking writers.
Los Angeles CA Los Angeles Actor's Gang Theatre, co founded by Actor Tim Robbins, harks back to the raw roots of theatre and renovates the classics and new works, all in a newly renovated Hollywood theatre known for community involvement and important theatre.
Los Angeles CA Geffen Playhouse is is characterized by beautiful Palm trees and an aspiring Mediterranean feel, The Geffen Playhouse which is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles where some actors like Annette Benign and Brendan Fraser flexed their muscles and productions aim to leave audiences somehow breathless.
www.losangelestickets.org /theater-tickets/index.php   (1339 words)

  
 Los Angeles' Broadway theatre district (and the Last Remaining Seats program)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Broadway - a main north/south thoroughfare in downtown Los Angeles - is home to a notable collection of grand old motion picture palaces, most of which date back to the 1920's and 1930's.
Famous for its huge crystal fountain in the lobby, the Los Angeles Theatre was considered one of the four or five finest movie palaces in the world.
The old theater district is located in downtown Los Angeles, along Broadway, from 3rd Street (on the north) to 9th Street (on the south).
www.seeing-stars.com /Theatres/BroadwayDistrict.shtml   (1997 words)

  
 Broadway Historic Theaters, Los Angeles
Broadway, between 3rd and 9th Street, is the first and largest Historic Theater District to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Los Angeles' first theater district was focused around the Merced Theater at the Plaza.
The earliest of several Pantages Theaters in Los Angeles, Alexander Pantages' decision to locate his vaudeville house here was a primary factor in establishing the Broadway theater district.
www.publicartinla.com /Downtown/Broadway/broadway_theaters_history.html   (2244 words)

  
 Los Angeles Conservancy | Broadway Initiative Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Historic Downtown is the heart of Los Angeles and the home of an unparalleled collection of early 20th Century commercial architecture.
Broadway is the backbone of the Historic Downtown.
The Broadway Initiative is a unique proactive effort by the Conservancy to restore Broadway and the surrounding Historic Downtown by taking a leadership role in their revitalization.
www.laconservancy.org /initiatives/initiatives_broadway.php4   (392 words)

  
 Beyond Shelter: Los Angeles Programs, Broadway South Neighborhood Revitalization Project
Broadway Village II on an acre of land at 51st Street and Broadway, two miles north of Broadway Village I. Broadway Village II, due to be completed in December 2005, also will include a Neighborhood Resource Center and a 50-unit service-enriched housing complex.
In this underserved area of Los Angeles, social services and community resources are often fragmented, difficult to access and rarely address the multiple needs of families with children, the elderly, people with special needs and other residents.
The purpose of this project was to pilot a model for improving the social and economic well-being of residents of the neighborhood surrounding Broadway Village I, through the use of the maximization of existing resources, interagency collaboration, and partnerships between residents, service-providers, and other stakeholders.
www.beyondshelter.org /aaa_programs/family_center.shtml   (1389 words)

  
 Los Angeles Conservancy | Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
One of Los Angeles' first suburbs, the area is rich with history and Victorian architecture.
The Sycamore Grove area of Highland Park is one of Los Angeles' oldest neighborhoods, with a rich and varied history.
San Pedro is a unique city with a rich history that reflects its role as Los Angeles’ major port as well as its legacy from generations of diverse immigrant populations.
www.laconservancy.org /tours/tours_main.php4   (864 words)

  
 Fiesta Broadway: Los Angeles
Billboard Magazine calls Fiesta Broadway "one of the most important showcases in the world of Latino talent." In past years, such stars as Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salza; Paulina Rubio, La Chica Dorada, and the legendary Selena have starred at the festival.
Los Angeles drivers, by the way, are either the most fearless humans on the planet, or the most reckless.
In the northern part of Hollywood, Griffith Park is a huge city park where the Los Angeles Zoo is located and the is the home of the famed Griffith Observatory.
www.aarp.org /travel/destinations/western_us/a2003-04-22-fiesta_broadway_los_angeles.html?aboutMembership=about   (873 words)

  
 Experience LA : Los Angeles Broadway Corridor Metro Adventures Planning Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Guided tours of the historic theaters along Broadway are offered by the Los Angeles Conservancy (213/623-2489 or http://www.laconservancy.org, reservations are required), or one can simply stroll Broadway and view the great palaces from the street.
Los Angeles Theater (615 S. Broadway) was one of the last great movie palaces to be built on Broadway.
Eastern-Columbia Building (849 S. Broadway) is one of the finest examples of Zig-Zag Moderne design remaining in downtown Los Angeles, typical of the Art Deco period.
experiencela.com /MA_BroadwayCorridor.htm   (1509 words)

  
 Los Angeles News
Basking in the rare fortune of a robust treasury, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Monday unanimously approved a $20-billion spending plan for next year that promises big new investments in public...
LOS ANGELES Los Angeles County prosecutors they will seek the death penalty against a transient accused of decapitating a 91-year-old retired screenwriter and stabbing his neighbor to death.
LOS ANGELES Unionized security officers from across the country will join with local clergy and community groups Monday to demand better working conditions for security officers working in Los Angeles.
www.topix.net /city/los-angeles-ca   (643 words)

  
 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History is a huge, ornate Spanish Renaissance building, housing sections devoted to dinosaurs, birds, minerals, pre-Columbian artifacts and Native-American life.
The company was named after a classic Los Angeles coffee shop that was demolished, but the tour takes you to other, surviving ones, and to such sites as bowling alleys, cocktail lounges, motels and chapels, all with great Southern California, high-kitsch style.
Los Angeles Equestrian Center schedules sunset rides every other Friday, which include a barbecue dinner at the end of the trail for US$40 per person.
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 Broadway Movie Palaces, Los Angeles
Taking a walk down Broadway in Los Angeles today is like taking a walk down a busy commercial street in Mexico City.
But Broadway in the early part of the century was a far different place, and was the place to go see a vaudeville show, or one of those newfangled movies at a nickelodeon.
The Los Angeles Theater was a latecomer to the Broadway theater district.
www.justabovesunset.com /id1395.html   (625 words)

  
 A VISIT TO OLD LOS ANGELES, 1
Los Angeles Conservancy, and is listed as a reference by at least one college course.
This is a pictorial survey of downtown Los Angeles, and certain other areas, focusing on the years 1900 to 1915, though occasionally making use of images from other times.
This series will follow, primarily by means of actual postcards of the era, the travels of a farming family from the great plains as they visit Los Angeles and its environs in the early years of the Twentieth Century.
www.csulb.edu /~odinthor/socal1.html   (2139 words)

  
 Broadway, Los Angeles
The original cinemas of previous decades, several of which still serve their original purpose, have become places of entertainment for the growing Hispanic population (known in Los Angeles as "latinos"), with mainly Spanish and Mexican films.
On Broadway you will find the interesting and very reasonable Clifton Cafeteria (608 S.), as well as more cinemas, the oldest of which are the Cameo (528 S.) and the Arcade (534 S.), both built in 1919.
Examples are Loew's State (1921; 703 S. Broadway), the Orpheum (842 S.) and the United Artists (933 S.) both dating from 1926, and the Tower (1927; 802 S.), the Los Angeles (1931; 615 S.) and the Roxie (1932; 518 S. Broadway).
www.planetware.com /los-angeles/broadway-us-ca-bdw.htm   (220 words)

  
 Downtown Los Angeles
This is the hub of activity upon which the city of Los Angeles revolves.
Los Angeles, the third largest city in the United States, looking southward from the City Hall tower.
Typically Californian in its spacious and beautiful Spanish architecture, the Los Angeles Union Station provides a setting which typifies to visitors the charm and hospitality of Los Angeles and Southern California.
www.yesterdayla.com /downtown.html   (726 words)

  
 PreserveLA - Historic Preservation in Los Angeles - Broadway Hollywood Sign
The Broadway Hollywood Building at 1645 Vine Street, designated as a landmark in 1999, is currently undergoing conversion to luxury condos by Kor Development, scheduled for a 2006 opening.
Speakers hailed the lighting of the Broadway Hollywood’s rooftop sign as a symbol of the rebirth of the community, which has seen some hard times but appears to be on a rebound with project such as the recently renovated Hillview Apartment, the Sunset/Vine residential/retail project, and others bringing new residents and activity to the community.
The relighting of Los Angeles' historic neon signage has slowed in recent years, as previously available sources of city funding have gone dry.
www.preservela.com /archives/000659.html   (537 words)

  
 eBay - broadway los angeles, Postcards Paper, Event Tickets items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Broadway Gymnastic School :: Los Angeles, California
Health and fitness is the gift of life and Broadway Gymnastic School welcomes you to enjoy our facility and the sport of gymnastics.
Broadway offers spectacular summer day camps beginning June 19th through September 2nd.
Broadway offers the best parties around with 2 hours of gymnastics in our top of the line facility!
www.broadwaygym.com /Welcome.htm   (224 words)

  
 Movers ,Moving Companies LA Los Angeles, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Flatrate is a Los Angeles moving company that offers customers an all-inclusive, guaranteed, one-price move.
Our professional Los Angeles moving team has specially trained crews for moving art, antiques and pianos.
Los Angeles office: 713 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401
www.flatrate.com /la   (238 words)

  
 Broadway/LA - Homepage
Patrick Cassidy, fresh from his Broadway appearance in 42nd Street with mother Shirley Jones, has had a career that spans the world of stage, film and television.
Los Angeles residents might remember Patrick in his appearance in THE THREEPENNY OPERA in which he won a well deserved Garland Award for Best Actor In A Musical!
Patrick is overjoyed to once again be touring the country in a role he holds very dear to his heart and to be working with his beautiful wife Melissa and experiencing the road with his wonderful sons, Cole and Jack.
broadwayla.org   (266 words)

  
 Los Angeles Conservancy | Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Conservancy has joined a coalition of concerned groups and individuals in order to ensure that the building remains a vibrant, publicly accessible destination in Northeast Los Angeles.
Join the Conservancy as we celebrate two decades of presenting classic films and live entertainment in the historic movie palaces of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Conservancy's Web site is your one-stop center for information on historic preservation in the Los Angeles area.
www.laconservancy.org   (443 words)

  
 Los Angeles Theater
The Los Angeles Theater is one of twelve large and ornate movie palaces along Broadway, in downtown LA, that sit in various states of reuse and disuse.
It was the last of the great baroque movie palaces built along Broadway, constructed during the depression at a cost of over $1 million, and finished in time to host the premiere of Charlie Chaplin?s City Lights in 1931.
The Los Angeles Theater usually plays a theater in the productions which are shot there, or is used for its elegant lobby and reception areas.
ludb.clui.org /ex/i/CA6084   (253 words)

  
 Los Angeles
When parts of Rancho San Rafael were sold, Tomás Sánchez, Sheriff of Los Angeles County, purchased a tract of 100 acres and in 1865 built this artistic adobe of the hacienda type, restored in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1913, construction crews of the Los Angeles-Owens River Aqueduct were housed here, and it became a center of commercial and social activity in the early life of the community.
Francisco Lugo was a prominent early landholder and Antonio served as the Alcalde of Los Angeles.
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 Theater Tour - Photographs and History of Los Angeles Movie Palaces
This was the first Broadway theater equipped to show talking pictures, and as such, was the site for the World Premiere of the first "all-talking" picture, Warner's 1927 The Jazz Singer.
The Roxie was the last of the great movie palaces to be built because the Los Angeles movie audience developed a preference for Hollywood Blvd. venues like Grauman's Chinese and the Egyptian theaters.
The Pantages leased the building for many years and their decision to perform here provided much of the early impetus that was to transform Broadway into Los Angeles' premier theater district during the 1910's and 20's.
www.gmrnet.com /theaters.html   (1303 words)

  
 Downtown Los Angeles
A Visit to Old Los Angeles; Postcard tour of downtown and central LA, mostly 1900-1915.
Brief history of this significant peak that overlooks the Los Angeles basin, with a few photos, by Marvin Collins.
A history of the original settlement of Los Angeles on the north edge of downtown.
www.placesonline.org /sitelists/nam/usa/california/la/downtownla.asp   (336 words)

  
 Old Chinatown Los Angeles Calendar of Events
The pedestrian signs will be located within the general area of the core of downtown Los Angeles bordered by Chinatown to the north, Sante Fe Ave.
Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency - and the only real thing worth buying.
Broadway "The After Party" Featuring turntable techs AJ Mora, Prodigal Sons, DJ 404 and special guest DJs.
oldchinatownla.com /events.html   (1947 words)

  
 Downtown Los Angeles Living - lofts history music clubs art food bars news education recreation
City Of Los Angeles loft database list and map of Adaptive Resuse Projects In Downtown LA (lofts completed and under development).
Los Angeles - Past, Present and Future very interesting history.
LA Conservancy dedicated to the preservation, and revitalization of the architectural and cultural heritage of greater Los Angeles.
losangeles.somaweb.org   (906 words)

  
 Los Angeles, California - Wikimedia Commons
Skyline from the 101 interchange with the 110 freeway.
Plaque outside shop and restaurant located at the San Antonio Winery, the only remaining winery in Los Angeles.
The Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles as seen from USC, which makes up most of Downtown's skyline.
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