Audrey Chan, Stories Flow Through the Heart of Los Angeles
CicLAvia–Heart of LA Route, Los Angeles, CA
CicLAvia–Heart of LA Route, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles-based artist Audrey Chan has created an illustrated interactive story map inspired by community stories embedded within the Heart of Los Angeles corridor. Throughout the route, look for signs featuring neighborhood histories and scan the QR codes to learn more about some of the people, places, and struggles that flow through Los Angeles’ history and recent past. Be sure to stop by any Hub's info booth to obtain the guide and received a free sticker (while supplies last)!
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STOP 1 - ECHO PARK HUB
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The Magonistas sowed the seeds of the Mexican Revolution from their radical anarchist printing press in Edendale.
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STOP 2 - CHINATOWN HUB
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The Chinatown Yards Alliance organized neighbors to create the LA State Historic Park, saving the land from commercial development.
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STOP 3 - YAANGA VILLAGE
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A magnificent sycamore tree stood for 400 years at the heart of Yaanga, one of the largest Tongva villages in Tovaangar.
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STOP 4 - BIDDY MASON
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Biddy Mason, nurse, midwife, real estate entrepreneur, philanthropist, and church co-founder, built her homestead on Spring Street.
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STOP 5 - LITTLE MANILA
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Filipino migrants formed a thriving Little Manila in the 1920s and 1930s, living and working around 1st Street and Main Street.
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STOP 6 - BRONZEVILLE
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Jazz played at breakfast clubs in Bronzeville, a neighborhood borne out of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and Los Angeles’ restrictive housing covenants.
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STOP 7 - “HOME IS LITTLE TOKYO” MURAL
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500 volunteers joined artists Jorge and Sergio Diaz, Tony Osumi, and activist Nancy Kikuchi to create the “Home is Little Tokyo” mural.
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STOP 8 - SKID ROW/GENERAL JEFF
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Activist General Jeff, known as the “Mayor of Skid Row,” fought for the community’s well-being and political representation.
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STOP 9 - MARIACHI PLAZA HUB
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Mariachis would serenade passersby by a doughnut stand at First Street and Boyle Avenue, where a stone kiosk stands today.
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STOP 10 - EVERGREEN CEMETERY HUB
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Chinese residents excluded from Evergreen Cemetery’s marked burial plots built a shrine to make funerary offerings to their deceased.
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