Mid City, Los Angeles
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Mid City is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California.
Mid City neighborhood sign located at the intersection of La Brea Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway
Mid City Neighborhood planter decoration at Burnside Avenue crossing of Ballona Creek, Los Angeles, California
The Holmes-Shannon House in Victoria Park was built in 1911.
Apartment building at San Vicente and Pico boulevards
LaFayette Square is a historic semi-gated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
The LaFayette Square neighborhood sign at St. Charles Place, around 2015
A proposed level crossing at the Pacific Electric tracks (today's Venice Boulevard) would result in "the worse death trap in Los Angeles," a traffic engineer warned in 1915, because of the impaired view of the railway from West Boulevard on both sides. A viaduct was built instead, in 1920.
Los Angeles Express advertisement for Lafayette Square tract, January 1913
Mediterranean Revival style home in Lafayette Square, 2012