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Old 12-18-2010, 02:15 PM
 
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Why is the area around these streets so ugly. There must be a lot of history there. Except for some designated areas, LA is really a ugly city, what happen to all the glamour.
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Old 12-18-2010, 02:22 PM
 
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Broadway and Central run parallel. They do not intersect. They both run in downtown and then to south LA for miles (and Broadway also goes north to Chinatown).

Your post is far too vague....for a response. Try being more specific.
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Old 12-18-2010, 02:23 PM
 
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LA is really a ugly city, what happen to all the glamour.
Is the intersection you're talking about in the Valley? I can't think of it off the top of my head.
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Old 12-18-2010, 02:37 PM
 
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Why is the area around these streets so ugly. There must be a lot of history there. Except for some designated areas, LA is really a ugly city, what happen to all the glamour.

try Bev Hills Malibu etc...still lots of glamour ...tho not many of us can afford to live there..now or ever

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Old 12-18-2010, 02:44 PM
 
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Another vague, clueless post by someone with an axe to grind.
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Old 12-20-2010, 02:19 PM
 
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Not an axe to grind but going south on Central and Broadway from downtown is ugly. I brought some German friends with me and they were appaleed around that area. This is the area that cool west coast jazz started. I know this goes into So Central and Watts and Compton but what gives. Another complaint is that the street lights are not bright enough to see street signs at night. Orange county, Manhatten Beach, Santa Monica, Bev Hills and Hollywood(west LA) was cool.
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Old 12-20-2010, 03:54 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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I'm sure your German friends were appalled because, as everyone knows, there are no ugly parts of German cities, especially in the heavily-industrialized Ruhr Area.
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Old 12-20-2010, 07:47 PM
 
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That is not a particularly attractive part of LA. Personally, I do not care for the area east of Hill St although I have friends that say Spring St is hopping.

But to visit a rundown area and then proclaim LA ugly is disingenuous. Especially when you said you visited better areas and found those "cool". Sounds like you have an agenda.
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Old 12-21-2010, 12:20 AM
 
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Not an axe to grind but going south on Central and Broadway from downtown is ugly. I brought some German friends with me and they were appaleed around that area. This is the area that cool west coast jazz started. I know this goes into So Central and Watts and Compton but what gives. Another complaint is that the street lights are not bright enough to see street signs at night. Orange county, Manhatten Beach, Santa Monica, Bev Hills and Hollywood(west LA) was cool.
The area you are talking about was THE center of Black Los Angeles a LONG, LONG time ago. This is the area along Central, South of Downtown LA but North of South LA/Watts (between Adams & Vernon).

That area went into decline as far back 1960 or so when civil rights and fair housing laws allowed middle class blacks to move to other parts of the city.

Some community groups have tried to "clean up" that area. THey have a jazz festival annually. But it's been a pretty scruffy area for a long time. Not sure why you took out of town guests there unless there are big time jazz buffs. If you took them there you should have taken them to the Watts Towers..
Central Avenue Jazz Festival - 2010 15th Annual Central Ave Jazz Festival

Plenty of "historic" parts of LA that "used" to be nice are now shall we say not so nice. Broadway in downtown (between 3rd and 9th) in one example. Spring Street is an area that went from good to bad and now is pretty good.
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Old 12-21-2010, 07:53 AM
 
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That is not a particularly attractive part of LA. Personally, I do not care for the area east of Hill St although I have friends that say Spring St is hopping.

But to visit a rundown area and then proclaim LA ugly is disingenuous. Especially when you said you visited better areas and found those "cool". Sounds like you have an agenda.
No agenda, but I guess everyone believes all this Hollywood bs and think LA is the cat's meow. Once they go there it is very disappointing.
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