Driving Tour of Broadway & Main St., Los Angeles [4K]

Broadway (Los Angeles)

Broadway is one of the oldest streets in the city, it was laid out as part of the 1849 plan of Los Angeles made by Lieutenant Edward Ord and named Fort Street. Fort Street began at the south side of Fort Moore Hill (a block north of Temple Street) at Sand Street (later California Street).

Broadway is a major thoroughfare in central Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, southern California. Broadway from 3rd to 9th streets in the Historic Core was the city's main commercial street from the 1910s until World War II. It is also the location of the Broadway Theater District, the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.

South Broadway's southern terminus is Main Street just north of the San Diego Freeway (I-405) in Carson. From there it runs 10 miles (16 km) north through Athens and South Los Angeles to Downtown Los Angeles – at Olympic Blvd entering downtown's Historic Core, in which the buildings lining Broadway form the Broadway Theater District. Crossing 3rd Street, Broadway passes through the Civic Center including Grand Park. After crossing the Hollywood Fwy (US 101), signs read "North Broadway" as it enters Chinatown. It then curves northeast, passing through old railyards, crosses the Golden State Fwy (I-5) and heads due east to its terminus at Mission Road in Lincoln Heights.

Main Street is a major north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California. It serves as the east-west postal divider for the city and the county as well. Main Street begins as a continuation of Wilmington Boulevard, a small street in the neighborhood of Wilmington, Los Angeles. Nearly 2 miles north at the intersection of Lomita Boulevard, it officially becomes Main Street and enters the city of Carson.

It begins as a continuation of Valley Boulevard west of Mission Road in Lincoln Heights as 'North Main Street'. It ends at the Port of Los Angeles. At 9th Street, it merges with Spring Street in Downtown LA, and between Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and 9th Street, Main Street shares a one-way couplet with Spring Street.

[AmbientWalking]

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[johnsteelman]

Hello, I use to go to LA I was in the Marines stationed at Camp Pendelton Marine base near Oceanside, Cali. From LA I would go to Hollywood Blvd. and the Sunset Strip....went to the Wiskey A Go Go....from John Steelman in North Carolina...