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Westlake, also known as the Westlake District, is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, United States.^[1]

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Affordable housing

Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996.

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Óscar Romero

Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador.

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B Line (Los Angeles Metro)

The B Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2020) is a fully underground rapid transit line operating in Los Angeles, running between North Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles.

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Ballroom

A ballroom or ballhall is a large room inside a building, the primary purpose of which is holding large formal parties called balls.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Belmont High School (Los Angeles)

Belmont Senior High School is a public high school located at 1575 West 2nd Street in the Westlake community of Los Angeles, California.

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Beverly Boulevard

Beverly Boulevard is one of the main east–west thoroughfares in Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.

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Business improvement district

A business improvement district (BID) is a defined area within whichever businesses elect to pay an additional fee (or assessment) in order to fund projects within the district's boundaries.

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Cable railway

A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)

Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles runs in the community of East Los Angeles, California.

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Camino Nuevo Charter Academy

Camino Nuevo Charter Academy is a group of charter schools serving the Westlake/MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles.

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Cardroom

A cardroom or card room is a gaming establishment that exclusively offers card games for play by the public.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Central America Resource Center

The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.

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Central Los Angeles

Central Los Angeles is the historical urban region of Los Angeles, containing downtown Los Angeles, and several nearby regions in southwest Los Angeles County, California.

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Chatsworth, Los Angeles

Chatsworth is a suburban neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley. Westlake, Los Angeles and Chatsworth, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Cholo

Cholo is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Crank House

Crank House, also known as Fair Oaks Ranch, is an 1882 Victorian style residence in Altadena, Los Angeles County, California.

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Cue sports

Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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D Line (Los Angeles Metro)

The D Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2006 and the Purple Line from 2006–2020) is a fully underground rapid transit line operating in Los Angeles, running between Koreatown and Downtown Los Angeles.

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Deacon

A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions.

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Death Scenes

Death Scenes is a 1989 mondo film starring Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey and directed by Nick Bougas.

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Delicatessen

Traditionally, a delicatessen or deli is a grocery that sells a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods.

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Dionisio Botiller

Dionisio Botiller or Dionisio de Botiller (1842–1915) was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city, in June 1868, December 1868 and in 1869, as well as the city auditor for eight years.

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Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles. Westlake, Los Angeles and Downtown Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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East Hollywood, Los Angeles

East Hollywood is a densely populated neighborhood of 78,000+ residents that is part of the Hollywood area of the central region of Los Angeles, California. Westlake, Los Angeles and East Hollywood, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Northwest Los Angeles.

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Echo Park

Echo Park is a neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California. Westlake, Los Angeles and Echo Park are neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Northwest Los Angeles.

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Edward Falles Spence

Edward Falles Spence (December 22, 1832 – September 19, 1892) was a banker, entrepreneur and property developer who was a member of the California legislature, a Nevada County official and the mayor of Los Angeles from 1884 to 1886.

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El Pollo Loco

El Pollo Loco (Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken") is the name of two independent restaurant chains that specialize in Mexican-style grilled chicken.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.

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Elisha K. Green

Elisha K. Green (1839–1917) was an entrepreneur in Los Angeles, California, who "made a fortune out of windmills" and served for six years on the Common Council, the governing body of that city.

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Encino, Los Angeles

Encino (Spanish for "oak") is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Westlake, Los Angeles and Encino, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles)

Evergreen Memorial Park & Crematory is a cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California.

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Fast food

Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service.

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Felipe de Neve Branch Library

Felipe de Neve Branch Library is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library located in Lafayette Park in Westlake, Los Angeles.

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Fentanyl

Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic. It is 20 to 40 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine; its primary clinical utility is in pain management for cancer patients and those recovering from painful surgeries. Fentanyl is also used as a sedative.

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Filipino Christian Church

The Filipino Christian Church is an historic Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) church located at 301 N. Union Avenue in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Fire door

A fire door is a door with a fire-resistance rating (sometimes referred to as a fire protection rating for closures) used as part of a passive fire protection system to reduce the spread of fire and smoke between separate compartments of a structure and to enable safe egress from a building or structure or ship.

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Fire escape

A fire escape is a special kind of emergency exit, usually mounted to the outside of a building—occasionally inside, but separate from the main areas of the building.

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Fire hydrant

A fire hydrant, fireplug, or firecock (archaic) or "Johnny Pump" is a connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply.

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Fire safety

Fire safety is the set of practices intended to reduce destruction caused by fire.

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Fire sprinkler system

A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection method, consisting of a water supply system providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, to which fire sprinklers are connected.

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First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles is located at 540 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Flea market

A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of street market that provides space for vendors to sell previously owned (second-hand) goods.

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Frederick Mitchell Mooers House

The Frederick Mitchell Mooers House, also known as the Wright-Mooers House, is an ornately detailed Victorian house built in 1894 at 818 South Bonnie Brae Street in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, California.

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Gang

A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.

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Gathering place

A gathering place is any place where people are able to congregate.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment.

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Glee club

A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs by trios or quartets.

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Glendale Boulevard

Glendale Boulevard is a north–south street in Los Angeles.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.

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Harris Newmark

Harris Newmark (July 5, 1834 – 1916) was a Jewish American businessman, philanthropist, and historian.

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Harrison Gray Otis (publisher)

Harrison Gray Otis (February 10, 1837 – July 30, 1917) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who later became president and general manager of the Times Mirror Company, then the publisher of the Los Angeles Times.

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Harvard-Westlake School

Harvard-Westlake School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school consisting of two campuses located in Los Angeles, California, with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve.

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Hawker (trade)

A hawker is a vendor of merchandise that can be easily transported; the term is roughly synonymous with costermonger or peddler.

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Hayworth Theatre

The Hayworth Theatre is a theater and performing arts venue at 2511 Wilshire Boulevard located in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Henricus Wallace Westlake

Henricus Wallace Westlake (June 1858 – 12 May 1905) was a Canadian physician who moved to Los Angeles, California, around 1888, settled in the rolling hills west of the city and gave his name to both a municipal park and a neighborhood in the city.

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Herman Silver

Herman Silver (1831–1913) was the former Chairman of the Republican County Committee in LaSalle, Illinois, superintendent of the United States Mint in Colorado, a collector of internal revenue, a railroad official and a member of the Los Angeles City Council.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Hiram Sinsabaugh

Hiram Sinsabaugh (c. 1832 – May 19, 1892) was a Methodist Episcopal minister and banker who served on the Los Angeles, California, Common Council, the legislative branch of the city, in the 19th century.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles

Historic Filipinotown (alternately known as HiFi) is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. Westlake, Los Angeles and Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Northwest Los Angeles.

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Historic South Central Los Angeles

Historic South Central Los Angeles is a 2.25-square-mile neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. Westlake, Los Angeles and Historic South Central Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Hollywood Subway

The Hollywood Subway, as it is most commonly known, officially the Belmont Tunnel, was a subway tunnel used by the interurban streetcars (the "Red Cars") of the Pacific Electric Railway.

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Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles. Westlake, Los Angeles and Hollywood, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Northwest Los Angeles.

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Holmby Hills, Los Angeles

Holmby Hills is a neighborhood on the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. Westlake, Los Angeles and Holmby Hills, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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Icebox

An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.

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Insanity defense

The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act.

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Interstate 10 in California

Interstate 10 (I-10) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from Santa Monica, California, to Jacksonville, Florida.

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Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)

Route 110, consisting of State Route 110 (SR 110) and Interstate 110 (I-110), is a state and auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of the US state of California.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John and Donald Parkinson

John and Donald Parkinson were a father-and-son architectural firm operating in the Los Angeles area in the early 20th century.

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Koreatown, Los Angeles

Koreatown (코리아타운, Koriataun) is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street. Westlake, Los Angeles and Koreatown, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Labrador Retriever

The Labrador Retriever or simply Labrador is a British breed of retriever gun dog.

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Langer's Deli

Langer's Deli, also known as Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant, is a kosher-style delicatessen located at 704 South Alvarado Street in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, opposite MacArthur Park.

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Latin Americans

Latin Americans (Latinoamericanos; Latino-americanos) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America).

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).

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List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles

This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past. Westlake, Los Angeles and list of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Local ordinance

A local ordinance is a law issued by a local government such as a municipality, county, parish, prefecture, or the like.

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Los Angeles Conservancy

The Los Angeles Conservancy is a historic preservation organization in Los Angeles, California.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.

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Los Angeles Daily News

The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California, after the unrelated Los Angeles Times, and the flagship newspaper of the Southern California News Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media.

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Los Angeles Fire Department

The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD or LA City Fire) provides firefighting services as well as technical rescue services, hazardous materials services and emergency medical services to the citizens of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Los Angeles Metro Rail

The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California in the United States.

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Los Angeles School of Global Studies

The Los Angeles School of Global Studies (LASGS) is a high school located within the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park (originally Westlake Park) is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Mahogany

Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Mapping L.A.

Mapping L.A. is a project of the Los Angeles Times, beginning in 2009, to draw boundary lines for 158 cities and unincorporated places within Los Angeles County, California.

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Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home

Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home is a four-story, "French Revival Chateauesque" brick structure in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles near downtown.

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Matthew Cooke (filmmaker)

Matthew Cooke (born February 28, 1973, in Washington, D.C.) is the writer-director of How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a documentary film which criticizes the war on drugs in the United States, and Survivors Guide to Prison, about the prison system.

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Miracle Mile, Los Angeles

Miracle Mile is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California. Westlake, Los Angeles and Miracle Mile, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Mission Revival architecture

The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles.

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Mondo film

Mondo film is a subgenre of exploitive documentary films.

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Morgue

A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal.

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MS-13

Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Westlake, Los Angeles and MS-13 are Salvadoran-American culture in California.

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Murphy bed

A Murphy bed (also known as a pull-down bed, fold-down bed, or wall bed) is a bed that is hinged at one end to store vertically against the wall, or inside a closet or cabinet.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Nightwear

Nightwear – also called sleepwear, or nightclothes – is clothing designed to be worn while sleeping.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles)

Olympic Boulevard (formerly 10th Street) is a major arterial road in Los Angeles, California.

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Opioid epidemic in the United States

There is an ongoing opioid epidemic (also known as the opioid crisis) in the United States, originating out of both medical prescriptions and illegal sources.

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Original Tommy's

Original Tommy's, previously known as Original Tommy's World Famous Hamburgers, is a fast food hamburger restaurant chain in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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Park Plaza Hotel (Los Angeles)

The Elks Lodge No.

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Parlour

A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pico-Union, Los Angeles

Pico-Union is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. Westlake, Los Angeles and Pico-Union, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Northwest Los Angeles and Salvadoran-American culture in California.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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A retirement community is a residential community or housing complex designed for older adults who are generally able to care for themselves.

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Roberto Lovato

Roberto Lovato is a writer and professor.

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Russian roulette

Russian roulette is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against the head or body (of the opponent or themselves), and pulls the trigger.

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Ruth St. Denis

Ruth St.

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Sal Castro

Salvador B. Castro (October 25, 1933 – April 15, 2013) was a Mexican-American educator and activist.

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San Fernando Valley

The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Westlake, Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Seating capacity

Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.

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Servants' quarters

Servants' quarters, also known as staff's quarters, are those parts of a building, traditionally in a private house, which contain the domestic offices and staff accommodation.

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Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel by Sir Walter Scott. Westlake, Los Angeles and Silver Lake, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Northwest Los Angeles.

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Slumlord

A slumlord (or slum landlord) is a slang term for a landlord, generally an absentee landlord with more than one property, who attempts to maximize profit by minimizing spending on property maintenance, and to tenants that they can intimidate.

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Smoke detector

A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire.

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In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and groups.

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Sock

A sock is a piece of clothing worn on the feet and often covering the ankle or some part of the calf.

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Steve Downes

Steven Downes (born June 28, 1950) is an American DJ and voice actor.

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Storey

A storey (British English) or story (American English), is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are storeys (UK) and stories (US).

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Subdivision (land)

Subdivisions are land that is divided into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat.

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Suite (hotel)

A suite in a hotel or other public accommodation (e.g. a cruise ship) denotes, according to most dictionary definitions, connected rooms under one room number.

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Susana Machado Bernard House and Barn

Susana Machado Bernard House and Barn is an elaborate Art Nouveau Gothic Revival style mansion and carriage house located in the Pico Union section of Los Angeles, California.

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T-shirt

A T-shirt (also spelled tee shirt, or tee for short) is a style of fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves.

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Tamale

A tamale, in Spanish, is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaves.

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Ted Shawn

Ted Shawn (born Edwin Myers Shawn; October 21, 1891 – January 9, 1972) was a male pioneer of American modern dance. He created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. After their separation he created the all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. With his innovative ideas of masculine movement, he was one of the most influential choreographers and dancers of his day.

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Television antenna

A television antenna, also called a television aerial (in British English), is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV) to receive terrestrial over-the-air (OTA) broadcast television signals from a television station.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Venice, Los Angeles

Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Westlake, Los Angeles and Venice, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Walter F. Haas

Walter F. Haas (November 12, 1869–February 17, 1936) was the city attorney of Los Angeles, California.

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Washington Boulevard (Los Angeles)

Washington Boulevard is an east-west arterial road in Los Angeles County, California spanning a total of 27.4 miles (44 km).

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Westlake Theatre

The Westlake Theatre is a historic theater located in the Westlake section of Los Angeles, California, United States, adjacent to MacArthur Park.

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Westlake Village, California

Westlake Village is a city in Los Angeles County, California on its western border with Ventura County.

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Westlake/MacArthur Park station

Westlake/MacArthur Park station is an underground rapid transit, known locally as a subway, station on the B Line and D Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.

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Westwood, Los Angeles

Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. Westlake, Los Angeles and Westwood, Los Angeles are neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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Wholesale District, Los Angeles

The Wholesale District or Warehouse District in Downtown Los Angeles, California, has no exact boundaries, but at present it lies along the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad lines, which run parallel with Alameda Street and the Los Angeles River.

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William and Alexander Curlett

William F. Curlett (County Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846 – January 21, 1914, San Francisco) and Alexander Edward Curlett (called Aleck) (San Francisco, February 6, 1881 – September 5, 1942) were a father-and-son pair of architects.

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William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor.

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Wilshire Boulevard

Wilshire Boulevard is a prominent boulevard in the Los Angeles area of Southern California, extending from Ocean Avenue in the city of Santa Monica east to Grand Avenue in the Financial District of downtown Los Angeles.

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Young's Market Company Building

Young's Market Company Building built in 1924 is a historic building located at 1610 West 7th Street, corner South Union Avenue, in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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18th Street gang

The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles. Westlake, Los Angeles and 18th Street gang are Salvadoran-American culture in California.

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1st Street, Los Angeles

1st Street is an east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, and Monterey Park, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake,_Los_Angeles

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