Description1927 map of Southwest Los Angeles, California.jpg
English: Caption from the Los Angeles Times of March 20, 1927:
Section to be Enhanced by Street Improvements
Transformation of District Will be Affected
The map above shows in graphic manner the nine important developments now under way, which will affect a transformation of the entire southwest section of Los Angeles. They are as follows: (1) La Brea avenue is to extend, 100 feet wide, from Jefferson street through the Baldwin Hills to Inglewood; (2) Crenshaw Boulevard, ninety feet wide, is now complete from Wilshire to Adamss; (3) Jefferson Boulevard, from Ninth avenue to Cochran, is now under construction; (4) Leimert Boulevard 133 feet wide between property lines, will connect Santa Barbara avenue with Angeles Mesa at Vernon; (5) Exposition Boulevard is to be opened and widened to fifty feet on each side of the Pacific Electric right of way from Main street to Angeles Mesa Drive; (6) Plans have been approved for the improvement of Santa Barbara avenue 100 feet wide from Alameda street to Angeles Mesa Drive; (7) Angeles Mesa Drive is to be paved and widened with two fifty-seven and one-half feet road ways, from Vernon to Seventy-ninth street; (8) Vernon avenue is to be widened to eighty feet; (9) Arlington avenue is being paved and widened to forty-six feet from Jefferson to Forty-eighth street.
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