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Area code. 323. Historic Filipinotown (alternately known as HiFi [ 1]) is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods ( Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, and Thai Town) in the city that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood.
The Consulate General of the Philippines in Los Angeles is a diplomatic mission of the Republic of the Philippines in the United States, representing the country's interests in southern California. It is located on the fifth floor of the Equitable Life Building at 3435 Wilshire Boulevard in the Koreatown neighborhood of central Los Angeles, a ...
Angeles ( locally [ˈaŋhɛlɛs] ), officially the City of Angeles ( Kapampangan: Ciudad/Lakanbalen ning Angeles; Filipino: Lungsod ng Angeles ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 462,928 people.
The history of Filipino Americans begins in the 16th century when Filipinos first arrived in what is now the United States. The first Filipinos came to what is now the United States due to the Philippines being part of New Spain. Until the 19th century, the Philippines continued to be geographically isolated from the rest of New Spain in the ...
A Little Manila ( Filipino: Munting Maynila or Maliit na Maynila ), also known as a Manilatown ( Filipino: Bayang Maynila) or Filipinotown ( Filipino: Bayang Pilipino ), is a community with a large Filipino immigrant and descendant population. Little Manilas are enclaves of Overseas Filipinos consisting of people of Filipino origin living ...
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley [10] and Verdugo Mountains [11] regions of Los Angeles County, California, United States.At the 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, [7] up from 191,719 at the 2010 census, [12] making it the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County and the 24th-largest city in California.
The Sixth Street Viaduct, also known as the Sixth Street Bridge, is a viaduct bridge that connects the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles with the Boyle Heights neighborhood. The Sixth Street Viaduct spans the Los Angeles River, the Santa Ana Freeway ( US 101 ), and the Golden State Freeway ( I-5 ), as well as Metrolink ( Orange County and ...
In a special election on April 2, 1926, Watts residents decided to enter Los Angeles by a vote of 1,338 to 535. It was the heaviest vote ever in Watts, with 1,933 voters at the polls of the 2,513 registered. Thus 23,000 more people were added to Los Angeles when the decision was put into effect on June 1 of that year.