Wholesale District or Warehouse District in Los Angeles City Center, California, has no definite limits, but is currently located along the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad lines, running parallel to Alameda Road and the Los Angeles River. Except for some additional commercial use, city views are mostly occupied by warehouses and refrigerated storage facilities. This area is known as North City Center on the Los Angeles zoning map.
In the early days, Los Angeles Street, to the west, was considered the "heart" of the Wholesale District, which for many years expanded south along the same road, and, to a lesser extent, northward. The warehouse building was also built on Jalan Alameda, and plans were made for the new center at First and Alameda, but it never worked. The warehouse is built on San Pedro Street and on Central Avenue. Eventually the district spread further on the east side of Downtown, and in 1990 it was described as constrained by San Pedro Street, the Los Angeles River, First Street and Santa Monica Freeway.
Crime and prostitution are reportedly rampant in the District. Fire structures, some caused by electric shorts or by combustion, are common during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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1898-1902. Los Angeles Street's "wholesale business center" is centered on Los Angeles Street around First and Second streets, New buildings built in existing Wholesale Districts over the next few years, including one at 147 -149 North Los Angeles Street for Davenport Company, dealer in agricultural equipment and heavy hardware; the American Notion building at 131-133; E.P. Bosbyshell builds on 125-129, occupied by S.J. Smith and pumps and pumping machines; and a building on the west side of the street for two wholesale houses, one of which is Zellerbach & amp; Children's paper company. A three-story building was built between Second and Third streets for Standard Woodenware Company and John Wigmore and Sons Company - said to be "one of the best wholesale buildings in Southern California."
1910-11. Construction includes W.H. six floors. Perry Building in the southeast corner of Second and Los Angeles street and HW Hellman build on Second Street in 1910. It was said later that the District would naturally be extended to the east, and indeed in 1911 a plan was announced to build the $ 100,000 building on the northeast corner of the East Fourth and Wall streets, specifically for the printing and publishing business. In 1911 a notice was made of a new building for P.H. Mathews Paint Company, Pioneer Roll Paper Company, Klein-Norton Company, Gold State Shoe Company, Stewart-Dawes Shoe Company, all moved into their own new building, and all on Los Angeles Street.
The plan was announced in September 1911 for the construction of a five-storey building in the northwest corner of Second Street and Alameda, to be occupied by Haas-Baruch and Company at "one of the largest and most modern wholesale wholesalers in the West.The architect is Morgan, Walls & amp; Morgan.
1912. The Warehouse Structure of the District has spread further south on Los Angeles Street. One of the largest leases ever agreed in the District, up to that point, was for a flood-reinforced seven-plus-underground building on the eastern side of Los Angeles between Seventh and Eighth streets. The Los Angeles Times argues: "This project marks another link in modern refractory building chain that was set up in Los Angeles Street in the past two years."
1913. Landowner David Hewes of Orange, California, announced plans to expand the District to the entire block from Los Angeles Street, where he was contracted with Willard-Slater Company to build twelve shops, to Santee Street between Eighth Street and Ninth Street, where he planned six more. He said that the increased traffic to Los Angeles through the newly opened Panama Canal was one of the reasons he predicted success for his efforts. Hr has placed Hewes Market in Ninth and Los Angeles, where it becomes one of the busiest corners in the city.
It has been noted that dozens of auto repair shops and machine shops lined Los Angeles Street between First and Tenth.
1917. The Los Angeles Road between the Seventh and Eighth Street is considered the "center of the city's dry goods and clothing wholesale business, as well as for the light manufacturing of them and the lineage." At the time it was announced that "The largest structural company launched in the wholesale and workplace districts" will continue to advance with two ten-story attic buildings to be erected by M.J. Connell in the corner of Seventh and Santee.
1992. The Warehouse District is described as "the cinder block and sheet metal, gloomy" area that runs from San Pedro Street west to the Los Angeles River in the east and from First Street north to the Santa Monica Freeway in the south.
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Expansion
First and Alameda
In 1898 a businessman named AE Weeks had collected enough properties from about thirty to forty owners to announce his plans to build a new wholesale center from four blocks on the west side of Alameda Road and west side of Vine Street between the streets of First and Jackson and at the north and south sides of Jackson in between Alameda and Wilmington roads. The purchase price "goes up to a million dollars," and sales are made to P.M. Daniel of the Pacific Machinery and Piping Company, president of the Los Angeles Trade Council, who is considered to represent other investors as well as himself. Buildings on site should be leveled, and "good business blocks tailored to the needs of wholesale homes" will be built in such a way that the South Pacific Railway will have access to the Alameda front for easy loading and unloading of goods. The idea for the district was taken from a similar project in St. Petersburg. Louis, Missouri, and his supporters stressed the advantage for Los Angeles merchants in competing with San Francisco in Northern California. It is also said that the new center will "allow the South Pacific Railway to place its cars at the doors of various wholesale homes, and the savings to trade this city will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars annually as a result of spending with drayage." The destruction of several cottages and tenements sixty envisioned envisioned. The wooden page should be moved from First and Alameda to a new location near the La Grande depot
A Los Angeles Times opinion article on January 6, 1899, however, opposed the completion of the project, which would dim the benefits of the South Pacific compared to rival Santa Fe Railroad. The Times stated that the "right place" for the new wholesale district will be between South Pacific Depot Arcade and Santa Fe depot in the Santa Fe-Santa Fe Road area because "The two companies' traces are only about 1,700 feet away , so the switch can be easily made into a warehouse. "
The plan envisions a cargo car being carried from the South Pacific line on Alameda Road to a new center, where "clerical power" will work in a station called Daniel, in honor of P.M. Daniel, the company author. This center should be shared by the South Pacific and Santa Fe railroad tracks. However, the plan unraveled, and in July 1899 the scheme appeared to have been abandoned because Daniel "could not take advantage of the project."
1905. The increase in the cost of Los Angeles Street properties is said to be the impetus for the expansion of the Wholesale District in 1905 along the streets of the First East and Alameda, aided by the Santa Fe Company's decision to build a switch on Banning Street.
San Pedro Street
1904. "The traffic jam on Los Angeles road, in the wholesale district, and the fact that this business class can not move west on Main street" prompted the City Council in December 1904, by vote 4 to 3, to order the reconstruction, alignment and widening of San Pedro Street (some historically known as Wilmington Street) to eighty feet to provide new opportunities for business growth. The job also provides a new "highway" from Fifth Street to Aliso Street.
The plan was opposed by some of the old property owners, in part because two landmarks were marked for destruction - a two-story residence owned by Mrs. MA Woodworth in San Pedro "where for more than a quarter century the old Spanish family hospitality has dispensed, and which for many years is central to many of the city's social activities." A contemporary note notes that "Around the Woodworth house there is a beautiful, and a refreshing oasis in the desert of brick walls, the dreary front of the store, and the shabby building of the neighborhood.One of the most valuable features in the yard is the glorious magnolia, the tree, famous for its dense wax flowers, and flanked to the east with rows of majestic palm trees - all this must go down before the march of commercial supremacy. "Also to be sacrificed is the 100 year old adobe house which has been occupied by the Lugo family of Spanish and Mexican families, which for three generations has been preserved as" Spanish-American. " It was built by Grandpa Ny. Woodworth, Don Antonio Manuel Lugo.
1925. San Pedro Street is listed as the "main north and south artery" wholesale district when a six-story building is completed on East Sixth Street for City Towel Supply Corporation, with a portion for rent to manufacturing and wholesale companies.
Central Avenue
1905. "The largest wholesale and wholesale factory ever undertaken in the Southwest - an entire city block devoted to one building and a corporate track" was promised in May 1905 for the Los Angeles Wholesale District in an area bounded by East First Street, Jackson Street, North Central Avenue, and Alameda Road. The property has a 700-foot front line at Alameda Street, where the South Pacific trail lies. Morgan Architect & amp; The walls promise two brick-floor buildings with glass plates for the first story and the main entrance of marble and polished oak trees. Additional buildings are also planned for Union Hardware and Metal Company.
1905. In August 1905, Los Angeles Herald reported that the Wholesale District had grown beyond the boundaries of Los Angeles Street, especially with the completion of a two-story building on the west side of Central Avenue between Second and Third Streets, which will be occupied by Simon Levi, producers of goods and grocery, and California Doors and Sash Company. The structure shows a "high class permanent structure" raised near the Central Market, the newspaper said.
1936. Coca-Cola bottling, shaped like a ship, was built at 1334 South Central Avenue in 1936.
Area Third Street
On April 19, the definition of the Wholesale District spread further east when the plan was announced for the largest fire-proof, warehouse development in the city, by FW Braun on Avery Street between Third Street and Stephenson Avenue.
Police and crime
Police
The district is guarded by the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division.
Crime
Criminal activity has become a topic of public interest.
1889-1902. This area is categorized as "revenge sink" due to forced prostitution and the existence of "dives allowed to flourish in the center of the wholesale district on Los Angeles Street."
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The Manhattan Club, just across the street from the Republican Club, is the same type of diving, with the exception that it is given to cultivation of pugilism rather than politics.... Both places are provided with a bar, for which they do not pay taxes to the city. Both are drowned because of iniquity, where people's garbage of both sexes and all colors gather every night to indulge in unbridled representation. Sometimes the police arrest some of the women who often do this dive, but no serious effort has ever been made to prevent orgies, which happen every night.
The Manhattan Club is described as a place where "niggers, hard skins, white and colored whores mixed up, mated, drunk, bet and worse even to the street traders, who never existed at night, demanded that they be closed, is closed... A uniformed officer is stationed at the door, and no matter who gets in, his name is taken in. It's hard like the patron's where they do not like the idea of ​​police watching them, and the result is that "business is ruined and clubs are closed.
1992. In November 1992 the Los Angeles Times published a long article titled Warehouse District as Los Angeles "belly", a "transient" concrete jungle looting business on night raids are frightening. "Reporter David Farrell writes that" thieves rode from one building to the next to search for air vents, the attic door, whatever place they could destroy.There are small hammers to reap: stereos, shoes, tomatoes, and oranges near a crate - whatever they can sell crack cocaine. "He calls the District" a block of cinder and sheet metal, a harsh view by a concrete beach on the Los Angeles River. " Prostitution is rampant, both male and female, and the population lives through theft and by doing little side jobs. Business owners report spending thousands of dollars on protection such as security guards, video cameras, iron fences and barbed wire, only to get them immediately chased by thieves, who quickly offer stolen goods for sale on sidewalks or elsewhere in the District.
Fire
The history of the Wholesale District is characterized by a number of important fires, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1898. The Germain Building, housed in Crandall's wholesale shopping center, Aylsworth & amp; Haskell at 218-224 North Los Angeles Street, destroyed and stores Pacific Crockery and Tinware Co. at No. 228 "almost completely destroyed" in a great fire on May 28, 1898, when the fire department had to make a loud noise. general alarm, "calling every company in the department to the scene" for the first time in more than a year. Fire starts in the higher piles used in packing goods. The workers tried to extinguish the fire with the hose, but in vain, so the alarm was sent from the fire alarm alarm box on Jalan Requena. A contemporary account reports:
... the heat was so great that it was impossible for the firemen to enter the building... the lines of the hose are stretched to the tops of adjacent buildings, and wherever there is a gap that can be used to direct the water, the flow flows into the burning structure.... Large Babcock trucks are placed directly in front of the building, and the air staircase is raised. On these two streams were placed, and they poured water onto the top two floors of the building... [but] the fire spreads through the building until the entire interior is like a furnace... Half an hour after the fire started [,] part of the southern wall that stretched over the top of the building...fell. Among the thousands of people who blocked the streets in front of the building, the screams rose that there were firefighters trapped under the wall. Instantly there was an invasion made by another firefighter and a number of residents in the place who wanted to give any help. But the alarm was unfounded, because the people who worked under the wall had seen him swaying and retreating just in time to escape being oppressed under a pile of bricks.
The owner of the Pacific Fire and Tinware Firm next to the burning building refused to allow firefighters to fight the blaze from the interior of his store, so people had to retire. Then the north wall of the building collapsed and crashed into the roof of the Equipment and Pottery store, "burning it in fifty places." Wholesale wool house from S. Phillips was on fire, but the fire went out. Stock from a glassware shop was destroyed when firefighters were forced to fight a soaring fire in a huge pile of containers filled with straw. The financial losses of traders are very heavy.
1904. George Stoll & amp; The company, a large wholesale business engaged in coffee, tea, and spices at 447-449 Los Angeles Street, escaped destruction on February 2, 1904, when one of the sparks of a roaster or "burning cigar" triggered a stack of crates packed but the fire was extinguished by firefighters, "some of them crawling along the floor with a hose line" to the rear of the building. At the same time, another fire broke out in the R.L coffee department. Craig Co. on Los Angeles Street near First Street, also in the Wholesale District. That was caused by a coffee roaster that was too hot, and it was quickly extinguished.
1906. Arsonists were suspected in a blaze of fire in the addition of two new floors in the rear of Standard Woodenware at 230-234 Los Angeles Street on February 18, 1906. Fire alarm alarms were withdrawn by a passing police officer, but the aid was slow because most of the nearby machine companies fought again on the Fifth and Main streets. Two men, who were reported to the night watchman, were sleeping inside. and was discovered only after firefighters started cutting the grille at the rear of the building. The nearest endangered business is the Club Coop, with 50 horses, Hawley & amp; King farm-implement house, Cohn-Goldwater and S.J. Smith's factory. Police officers are taken from other areas, and a net is made of "suspects and all characters" who can not "explain their movements." and they were brought in "for explanation."
1906. The two-story brick building occupied by Holbrook, Merrill and Stetson Hardware Company, which took almost half the south side of 200 blocks of Los Angeles Street, was severely damaged in three fire alarms in the early hours of the morning on June 20, 1906. A newspaper account reported that "Women prisoners from nearby places were terrified, they took to the streets in light clothing and refused to return to their rooms for a long time... Five companies responded... and two more as soon as they can run to the wholesale district. "
1906. Ladderman Adolph Hermanson was assassinated on December 29, 1906, while he was fighting in Cohn, Goldsmith & amp; Co building at 210-222 South Los Angeles Street. She was thrown from the fifth floor window when a lump of water hit her. "Wooden goods and men's clothing are made up of building stock," the Los Angeles Times reported. "The structure itself is far from fireproof.The Department [fire] is faced with the same proposition that a person who has to extinguish a burned wool with a tin scoop." The building was gutted. Businesses that are damaged in adjacent buildings are Machinery Manufacturing Company S. J. Smith, B.F. Kieruiff Electrical Company, manufacturer of circuit boards, Pacific Wire and Steel Company and Fullerton Iron Works.
1907. The fire nearly destroyed a building on 256-260 South Los Angeles Street, occupied by P.H. Mathews Paint Company and Wholesale Drug Company, but the water tower in the block saved other buildings on the block from damage. The blaze began on the lower floor but shot up the elevator shaft upstairs. The fire was first reported by a patrolman from Dispatch Api Traders, who sent alarms via a private telephone line connected directly to the Fire Brigade headquarters, from which the Head of [Walter] Lip led the team towards the incident. Seeing the vastness of the flame even before arriving at the scene, he stopped the horses and sent the second and third alarms from the fire alarm box; these precautions bring more people to the scene to fight the fire and save other buildings on the block. It was noted that during the previous five years the block, "in the heart of the wholesale district," has been hit by four very serious fires.
1908. On June 4, 1908, a flame started upstairs from a three-story Phillips Printing Company at 354 South Los Angeles Street, on the corner of Boyd Street, apparently from a crossed electrical cable, and At the time of the Firefighters arrived, the fire was so hot that the men had to work with relays. All the contents of the building seem to be missing, including, feared, the manuscript of the upcoming Los Angeles City Directory. Quarters and stocks Pacific Garment Company, in the same building, was damaged.
1909. Driven by strong winds from the mountains, the flames at the Zellerbach Paper Company headquarters at 115-23 North Los Angeles Street threatened to spread to adjacent buildings on April 6, 1909, and "the heart of a large wholesale district in danger. "The damage to the Zellerbach building was reduced by the large fire wall that flowed between the east and west walls of the building, but" everything in the south was destroyed, "a contemporary account read out. "Within twenty minutes... The crowd of 15,000 has been gathered, East First Street is full of humanity, the way Los Angeles to the north is a mass of swaying and crowding, ropes taken and a team of cops detailed to keep the audience in check." Racing cars [streets] stopped and hundreds of passengers watched the fire until it was told that the car had been placed in Los Angeles and commercial roads. "
Five firefighters had a narrow escape.... The Head of Lips and four assistants are playing the hose through the broken window when the fire takes on new tactics and sweeps them away. Head and three men escape from the stairs. Oscar Jones from Company No. 6 wa driven to the corner of the platform, and cut off from the stairs by a fire. He jumps into a near-by hose that has been taken to the roof and fled by sliding to the ground. He was scorched about his head and face. Big crowds cheered him as he lowered himself by using the hose.
1921. The spectacular fire on the night of March 17 sent a "powerful fire trunk" to the sky and destroyed a warehouse of Pacific Wood and Coal Company at Seventh Street on the Santa Fe Railroad track. Contains loads of coal, coke, wood, straw, wheat, poultry supply and distillation rose in smoke, as do six "car trucks". Firefighters escape from serious injuries in common fire alarms when the burning wall collapses above them, but they "quickly release themselves uninjured from the debris and continue their work." The company, which has offices in Los Angeles and San Diego, is one of the largest companies in Southern California.
1967. Three fires in four nights broke out in December 1966 and January 1967 in an 11-block area in the Mission Road district. The loss suffered by Charles Weinreich Ltd, packing and exporting used fabrics and clothing at 310 Souith Mission Road, by the Empire Bag and Carton Company at 1491 East Fourth Street and by the chemical company Wilbur-Ellis at 453 North Mission Road, which was destroyed. Arson is suspect.
Explosion
1997. Four workers were killed and at least 25 others injured when a machine exploded with a powerful explosion at the Imperial Toy Corporation plant on East 7th Street and Santa Fe Avenue and pierced the roof of a building built in 1913 by Henry Ford to become the first California car manufacturer.
References
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External links
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