tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633816278415014207.post1341712344183115482..comments2024-03-25T04:53:09.576-07:00Comments on Big Orange Landmarks: No. 64 - Plaza ParkFloyd B. Bariscalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08865316405393661242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633816278415014207.post-3297228085898974692013-08-18T14:20:38.229-07:002013-08-18T14:20:38.229-07:00Very enjoyable post!
Unfortunately, Christine S...Very enjoyable post! <br /><br />Unfortunately, Christine Sterling was not the preservationist savior she has been made out to be. Although she saved Olvera Street, she had no use for the Chinese business and residents that remained wedged in between the Plaza and Union Station. She led the charge to replace the Lugo House with a parking lot, because her vision of what the Plaza should represent was a very narrow one. <br /><br />For decades after the establishment of the historic park in 1953, the decimation continued. The Plaza Church and Brunswig Drug building are the only survivors of what, until the late 1970s, was a block of 19th- and early 20th-Century buildings. The rest are all gone now, replaced by a vast expanse of asphalt--another parking lot, of course.<br /><br />That's no way to save a city's history.AimlessInLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09718152552754457700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633816278415014207.post-31945821796071626872011-05-07T13:08:46.095-07:002011-05-07T13:08:46.095-07:00Great blog post, with some amazing photos and info...Great blog post, with some amazing photos and information. <br /><br />I posted something similar after taking a group of homeschool kids from the Westside on a field trip of downtown L.A. this time last year. <br /><br />http://www.experiencingla.com/2010/07/olvera-street.html<br /><br />Cheers - "David from L.A."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com