#crenshaw boulevard

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Crenshaw Boulevard

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KABC-TV: LA dedicates portion of Crenshaw Boulevard in honor of Malcolm X for his civil rights contributions

LEIMERT PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 5 mile stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard was dedicated in recognition of Malcolm X's prominent work in the civil rights movement on Saturday.

The dedication happened during the 18th annual Malcolm X Festival in Leimert Park.

Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove -- who represents the area -- spoke at the unveiling.

"We have a responsibility to his legacy and his life to never give up," she said. "And to not stop fighting for our continued space, not just at the table, but creating the table where more justice can be realized."

The unveiling puts Malcolm X in the ranks of other landmark dedications in the community, including the Rosa Parks Freeway, Obama Boulevard, MLK Boulevard and Nipsey Hussle Square.

The Malcolm X Festival is held yearly to celebrate the life and legacy of Malcolm X, and features arts and entertainment, as well as activities associated with the life of the festival's namesake.

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Falls es jemanden interessiert, hier noch ein wenig bts zu den Karten

Justus

Die Ränder an Justus Karte sind rot und blau (hihi).

Die Arden Street gibt es wirklich in Rocky Beach (und ist natürlich inspiriert von William Arden).

Die 19 steht für den 19. Buchstaben im Alphabet (S)

Postleitzahlen in Rocky Beach setze ich grundsätzlich nach Santa Monica.

1979 als Gründungsjahr, obviously, aber nachdem die drei im Comic Ende der 90er 40 werden würde es passen, dass Justus mit Anfang 20 den Laden gegründet hat (auch wenn ich denke, dass es vielleicht erst später war)

Für das allgemeine Design habe ich mich an dem Ladenschild orientiert. Dabei ist mir auch aufgefallen, dass im Graphic Novel auf einer Seite "vintage crime books" und auf einer nur "vintage books" steht hihi

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Peter

Mit Peter habe ich mir vom Design tatsächlich am schwersten getan, aber dazu später.

Der Firmenname und die Anlehnung an das Logo sind auch dem Buch entnommen. Genau wird ja nicht spezifiziert, was Peter macht, aber ich schätze mal Versicherungsdetektiv kommt dem schon am nächsten? Ich habe ihm einen Titel gegeben, weil er eine successful bitch ist. Und anscheinend hat man bei der Versicherung oft mindestens eine Accounting Ausbildung und ein Spezialgebiet. Da Peter ja in einem Brandfall, also habe ich ihm einen Professional Engineer verliehen, den Peter in der Abendschule gemacht hat maybe um seiner Ehe zu entfliehen.

Die Sunrise Road ist natürlich an die Adresse des Schrottplatzes angelehnt. 2110 -> 2 = B 1 = A 10 = J

Postleitzahl liegt in Phoenix.

Die Telefonnummer ist eine Vorwahl in Phoenix plus die ISBN von RBEI, bei Fax habe ich halt einfach die "Durchwahl" angepasst.

Bei der Recherche habe ich außerdem Visitenkarten gesehen, die eine Telex Nr hatten, das ist wohl so eine Mischung aus Fax und Pager? Die vordere Nummer ... ich hab literally vergessen warum ich die genommen habe, aber sie ist anders als in der Inspiration die ich benutzt habe. jfc. Jedenfalls steht das PMPS natürlich für Para Mutual Peter Shaw

RE: Design ich hab ganz viele 90s Designs gegooglet, 90er Musik gehört und es hat gefruchtet. Der erste Entwurf für Peter sah nämlich so aus

Mag ich auch, aber ich fand vor allem das Logo einfach zu Modern. Hier ist aber das Logo viel näher dran an dem Graphic Novel

Und natürlich ist die Karte blau :)

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Bob

Bei Bob habe ich auch lange überlegt - ich glaube, er ist bekannt und reich genug, dass er nicht einfach so seine Adresse rausgibt. Und da er in meinem Kopf in RBEI sehr privat ist nimmt er das gern als ausrede jegliche Kommunikation auf sein management abzuwälzen

Circle of Confusion ist eine der renommiertesten Management-Agenturen für Drehbuchautoren. Inzwischen heißen die nur noch Confusion und eigentlich gibt es die auch erst seit den frühen 2000ern aber jetzt noch nach großen Agenturen aus den 90ern zu suchen war mir zu viel. Ich hab einmal versucht herauszufinden, wie viel man für eine Taxifahrt in den 90ern in LA bezahlt hat. unmöglich.

Phyllis Stein habe ich mir aus Hedwig and the Angry Inch ausgeliehen. Das ist Hedwigs Managerin und Bobs Managerin hat mich irgendwie sehr an sie erinnert. Ich hoffe, er hat ihr doch noch Champagner gekauft.

Die 1619 steht für 16 = P 19 = S und den Crenshaw Boulevard gibt es wirklich in LA. Wisst ihr, was dort ist? Space X. Ja.

Die PLZ ist wieder LA, und die Nummer von Bobs Agentin ist die LA-Vorwahl + das Erscheinungsdatum von RBEI.

Natürlich ist Bobs Karte rot und hat schön viel Platz um eine Privatnummer oder Adresse draufzukritzeln ;)

Willkommen in meinem Gehirn.

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Signs / Crenshaw Boulevard, Gardena, California.

[oldshowbiz]

George Schlatter: I started out as a greeter at a Black nightclub in Los Angeles called The Sapphire. It was located at Slauson and Crenshaw and I worked there in the evenings.

I got hired at MCA after a well-known employee exposed himself to a woman. He was head of publicity for MCA and part of a well-known family. They had to let him go before it turned into a scandal.

I replaced him, but they started me off with the menial jobs. MCA booked the big bands and my job was to wrap window cards and send them out in the mail. In the old days they had cards they put in the windows of stores and theaters to promote whichever band was coming to town. If the Freddy Martin Orchestra was playing at the Ambassador Hotel, there’d be window cards with photos and information to promote the show. It was my job to put them together in the MCA warehouse and then send them out.

One day I delivered some to the MCA band division on Santa Monica Boulevard and just as I was about to leave Frank Sinatra walked in. I had never met him before. He was there to sign his yearly contract. He had these year-to-year deals with MCA and never had to pay a commission. MCA made all this money simply because handling him was considered good publicity for the agency. The publicity was their commission.

I was standing in my ill-fitting brown outfit, mismatched shoes, looking like a dumb kid while all the MCA guys stood there in their immaculate black suits. They handed him the contract and Sinatra turned to where I was standing. He asked me, “Is it okay?” I said, “Um, yes, Mr. Sinatra.” He signed it and then handed it to ME. The temperature raised in my pants.

For God’s sake, this was Frank Sinatra. I couldn’t believe it. As he walked out of the office he looked back at me and said, “I have ties older than you.” I was maybe twenty years old. Immediately all the other agents assumed I must have been “connected.”

Everyone figured I was either a Sinatra family friend or heavily connected to the Mob. Neither of those things were true at the time, but after that everyone at MCA was suddenly very nice to me.

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i love public transportation and i live in los angeles which has a burgeoning system, so there’s bound to be kinks and learning curves. we weren’t lucky to get a great society metro, most of the city proper is single family housing outside of wilshire, dtla, and some properties in westlake area, and la was built with the car as the main resident within the city, so no matter what, public transpo & pedestrian oriented infrastructure will be an uphill battle. i will always applaud metro for /trying/, but it’s just frustrating sometimes.

i’ve been late to work & school more times than i’m comfortable with because the e line has no signal preemption so we have to wait at jefferson, pico, western, vermont, and crenshaw for four minutes each like a car and then we have to wait at the station for 10 minutes for some unexplainable issue. and then because of that, i miss my bus which wasn’t there anyway because of bunching and poor infrastructure so now there’s 100 people at the bus stop cramming into a bus to get to their jobs, but cars are clogging the roads and making it near impossible to travel more than 20 miles an hour for much of the trip there.

cars are the least efficient form of transportation known to man and one of the greatest cities on earth, my hometown, where i was born and raised, was not built for and will continue to denigrate humans and pedestrian alike. and, car drivers will continue to demean and fear monger about walking and public transportation. the suv & light truck arms race is turning thoroughfares which should have multitudes of modes of transport within and serve people into raceways where you can go 45 with no repercussions. right hand turns on red have nearly hit me more times than i have fingers.

i live in a city where we can afford to widen the 405 into oblivion and bloat lapd’s budget yearly and yet we can’t provide good enough infrastructure for angelenos?? this is a major policy failure and we are living with its effects. i’m so tired of living in a city built for the wealthy and for the vehicle. we need to change los angeles zoning codes, enforce rent caps, institute a low income rent moratorium, tear down the 110, 10, 710, 101, 405, and 210, institute a robust commuter rail system, publicize the railroads, remove eighteen wheelers as the primary mode of freight movement, expand heavy rail through urban core, increase density along metro corridors and use property taxes to pay for projects and maintain system, increase metro ambassadors, clean the cars, update the rolling stock, rebuild union station, create streetcar suburbs in la county, increase density in the suburbs, turn all boulevards and avenues into mixed mode thoroughfares, increase cycling network, create a statewide engineering and construction firm instead of outsourcing, produce american made rolling stock, create a high speed rail system, and turn cities back into thriving hubs of culture where we can afford rent, create art, live lives, move freely, build community, and live healthier, more fulfilling lives.

sorry for any typos, inconsistencies, or any oddities. i’m typing this while walking 25 minutes late to my public policy class.

[lboogie1906]

The Los Angeles Sentinel is a weekly African-American-owned newspaper published in Los Angeles. The paper boasts of reaching 125,000 readers as of 2004, making it one of the oldest, largest, and most influential African-American newspapers in the Western US. The Sentinel was noted for their coverage of the changing African-American daily life experience in the post-1992 Los Angeles Riots era.

The Sentinel was founded in 1933 by Leon H. Washington Jr. for Black readers. Since that time, the newspaper has been considered a staple of Black life in Los Angeles. The paper mainly focuses on and thus enjoys most of its circulation in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, Inglewood, and Compton. The office is on Crenshaw Boulevard with a commercial corridor in the Hyde Park neighborhood which is known as “the heart of African American commerce in Los Angeles”.

On March 17, 2004, the Sentinel was purchased and came under the direction of real estate developer and community activist Danny Bakewell. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[laconservancy]

Time, Taste, and Tradition: Preserving L.A.’s Legacy Businesses 

Congratulations to the selected recipients of the L.A. Conservancy’s Legacy Business Grant! The five legacy businesses of the first round of our $5,000 grants have been selected and we’re thrilled to introduce them to you: 

88 Gifts Shop (1987) in L.A.’s Chinatown 

Candelas Guitars (1947) in Boyle Heights 

El Aguila Bakery (1973) in El Sereno  

Gardena Cinema (1976) in the City of Gardena 

SIKA (established in 1992) in Leimert Park 

From an essential neighborhood shop selling everything from houseware items to plants to a rare, affordable single-screen movie theatre, these locally-owned businesses boast a combined age of more than 200 years in operation in their neighborhoods and communities. They also represent the essence of L.A.’s legacy businesses: long-standing neighborhood anchors where people connect, memories are made, and a sense of community is nourished. 

We hope that their stories demonstrate the value of longtime businesses and that you hurry out to patronize their business in the very near future! 

ABOUT THE WINNERS 

88 Gifts Shop 

Photos courtesy 88 Gifts Shop

311 Ord Street Los Angeles, CA 90031  

 For over 30 years, the original location of 88 Gifts Shop (88 Gifts) was at 711 North Broadway in BC Plaza. In 2020, owner Annie Ma was forced to relocate her business to its present location. 

Ma’s shop sells housewares, plants, and a variety of Lunar New Year gifts to neighborhood residents and tourists. Perhaps most notably, 88 Gifts sells Chinese-language newspapers to Chinatown’s elders, allowing them to remain in touch with news events both here and abroad 

Still feeling the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, this grant will make it possible to pay for rent increases and avoid another relocation.  

CANDELAS GUITARS 

Photos courtesy Candelas Guitars 

2724 E Cesar Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033 

Brothers Porfirio and Candelario Delgado-Flores moved from Mexico to Los Angeles in 1947 and brought with them a burgeoning music business that specialized in custom guitar marking. The store’s clientele includes famous artists like José Feliciano but it’s also a source of community pride, giving back to Boyle Heights in many ways including the creation of a 501c(3) nonprofit that provides free music lessons to local youth. 

After closing for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Candelas was thankfully able to re-open but is still facing the residual effects of the shutdown. The grant will go towards payroll for the business and operating expenses. 

El Aguila Bakery 

Photos courtesy El Aguila Bakery 

5028 Huntington Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90032  

El Aguila Bakery was established by Apolinar Casillas in 1973 and has been a beloved fixture in L.A.’s El Sereno community ever since. With a loyal, multi-generational clientele, El Aguila prides itself on its authentic Mexican sweet breads, cakes, tamales, and so much more! The bakery also supports the community by giving back to local institutions such as the city, schools, and places of worship.  

But the bakery’s authentic flavors come at a cost. When ingredient prices rose more than 200%, the bakery had to increase its prices, causing sales to slump. This grant will allow them to cover increased costs and make payments to necessary vendors. 

GARDENA CINEMA 

Photos courtesy Gardena Cinema 

14948 Crenshaw Boulevard, Gardena, CA 90249 

Gardena Cinema is a single-screen movie cinema built in 1946 and operated by the Kim family since 1976. It’s the only such theatre located Gardena and has provided affordable entertainment options for more than four generations. It's a place where families can enjoy a film together and have meaningful experiences: in addition to their unique film slate, Gardena Cinema also hosts cinema potlucks, popcorn happy hours, and more. 

A combination of the pandemic and personal health challenges forced the cinema to be closed for 32 months. The grant will provide them with a much-needed cash infusion toward daily operating expenses. 

SIKA 

Photos courtesy SIKA  

4330 Degnan Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90008 

Sika, an institution of Leimert Park Village, has been specializing in custom jewelry, African art, clothing, and other goods for 30 years.  Sika, the store’s owner, weathered a downturn in the economy in the 2000s when many businesses left the Village. His resilience has commanded the love and respect of the Leimert Park community and, today, despite concerns about gentrification and displacement Sika remains at the heart of the neighborhood as a cultural gathering place. 

This grant will be used toward business marketing and community jewelry-making workshops.  

ABOUT THE GRANT PROGRAM 

When we first announced the grant program in November of 2022, it was the culmination of more than two years of advocacy, dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of legacy businesses throughout Los Angeles County. 

Longtime businesses add to our rich history and culture. These community anchors have long been one of the focal points of the Conservancy’s work, from responding to threats of demolition to providing technical assistance. We saved the original McDonald’s from demolition in the ‘90s, brought funding for the rehabilitation of the Formosa Cafe’s Pacific Electric Red Car, and rallied to designate Norms on La Cienega, Tom Bergin’s on Fairfax, and Otomisan Japanese Restaurant in Boyle Heights as Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM). In late 2019, we proudly launched a Legacy Business initiative to raise awareness about and support for these important places in L.A. County. 

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we understood the immediate threat and unthinkable challenges facing longtime business owners. Thanks to Wells Fargo, we’ve been able to expand our legacy business initiative to include a grant program. This grant provides $5,000 to ten (10) eligible small businesses that have operated and contributed to their community’s history and/or identity for at least 20 years and have less than 25 full-time employees. 

So far, the response has been overwhelming. Nearly 400 owners applied for the first round of grants, making the task of choosing just five winners almost seem impossible. Please join our Legacy Business Network and follow us on social media to learn more about our winners and to stay up-to-date on Round 2 of the L.A. Conservancy’s Legacy Business Grant Program! 

Visit laconservancy.org/grant to learn more. 

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TORRANCE, CA (November 13, 2024) — Two men died in a multi-car accident on the 405 Freeway near Crenshaw Boulevard.

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Woman killed, five other people injured in Hawthorne

One woman was killed and five other people were injured in a shooting early Sunday near a Hawthorne strip mall, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The shooting happened around 12:27 a.m. in the 14100 block of Crenshaw Boulevard, said Lt. Art Spencer with the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau. The Hawthorne Police Department arrived and found a man suffering from gunshot wounds, who…

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The number six as 8f it were painted by a graffiti artist on the side of a train car near Crenshaw Boulevard

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Walls / South Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

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Police searching for missing 7-year-old boy in Mid-Wilshire

Derek Clay was last seen in the courtyard of an apartment complex in the 1100 block of Crenshaw Boulevard on Tuesday, police said.

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W7: Case Research (18) (06/03/23)

I found another article with interviews from the officer's at Mel's store.

it gave me the idea of looking at the two bullets and the pole which Patty shot

"In her book, Hearst says she fired over people’s heads, “aiming at nothing in particular,” purely to help the Harrises escape"

“She fired 30 rounds,” Seymour said. “The bullet strikes showed it was an obvious attempt to kill.”

“I have no ill feelings for her,” said Boggs. “It was a tragic thing that happened to her. I’m happy she’s put the whole thing behind her. But to try to erase it from history is another thing.”

Again, just more info that I can use