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1: Skyline of downtown Los Angeles. View from Griffith Observatory.
© G. Thieme, 1993 [back to picture]
2: Downtown Los Angeles. View from USC campus.
© G. Thieme, 2000 [back to picture]
3: Los Angeles, 7th Street. Traditional brownstone buildings of the 1930s, most of them exactly 150 feet tall, mark the old downtown of Los Angeles.
© G. Thieme, 2000 [back to picture]
4: Wells Fargo Center, S. Grand Avenue. The 53-storey complex of Wells Fargo Bank is one of the landmarks of the new Central Business District of Bunker Hill.
© G. Thieme, 1999 [back to picture]
5: The apartment complex at the northwest corner of Bunker Hill is one of the few examples of a white-collar residential neighborhood in downtown.
© G. Thieme, 1993 [back to picture]
6: Built from 1989-1993 Grand Hope Park was a project of the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) intended to combine a residential neighborhood with recreation facilities, ironically surrounded by a security fence.
© G. Thieme, 1993 [back to picture]
7: Northridge (San Fernando Valley) - Earthquakes are a constant threat to Southern California. The January 1994 earthquake in Northridge with a Richter magnitude of 6.7 did not cause an even greater catastrophe because it happened on a holiday at 4.30 a.m..
© G. Thieme, 1994 [back to picture]
8: USC (Doheny Library) - Los Angeles has many prestigious colleges and universities, among them the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Southern California (USC).
© G. Thieme, 1993 [back to picture]
9: Hidden Hills - Increasingly, gated communities can be found in Greater Los Angeles. The independent town of Hidden Hills with its private streets and guarded gates was incorporated in 1961.
© G. Thieme, 1993 [back to picture]
10: Irvine (Orange County) - In newly developed residential neighborhoods the recreational infrastructure is often private, as exemplified by this lake in Irvine.
© G. Thieme, 1992 [back to picture]
11: Fashion Island (Newport Beach, Orange County) - In suburban Orange County, a number of Urban Entertainment Centers increasingly compete with traditional inner city locations.
© G. Thieme, 1992 [back to picture]
12: Watts Towers, 107th Street, South Central Los Angeles - The folk-art Watts Towers constructed by Simon Rodia from 1921- 1954 are a landmark of the once overwhelmingly black neighborhood of Watts. Recently, Latino population groups have been gaining ground in the Watts area.
© G. Thieme, 1992 [back to picture]
13: Pico Boulevard - The Pico Union district southwest of downtown is a center of recent immigrants from Central America.
© G. Thieme, 1991 [back to picture]
14: Broadway - In the first half of the 20th century Broadway was a shopping and entertainment street. In recent decades Broadway has become the number one shopping street of Latinos in Los Angeles.
© G. Thieme, 1993 [back to picture]
15: Mural in Estrada Court, East Los Angeles - At the time of the Census 2000 Latinos are by far the largest population group in Los Angeles County. Mexicans alone account for 32% of the population, more than non-Hispanic whites.
© G. Thieme, 1999 [back to picture]
16: Koreatown, Olympic Boulevard - Koreatown still is the major commercial center of the Korean population although suburban Korean neighborhoods are expanding.
© G. Thieme, 1991 [back to picture]
17: Koreatown, Olympic Boulevard - During the Los Angeles Riots in Spring, 1992 about 2,000 Korean-owned establishments were destroyed and/or looted.
© G. Thieme, 1992 [back to picture]
