Place to see: Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, California, United States

Postcards about Alvarado Street:

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  19 December 2007
  From:
  Polly Cole

  Alvarado Street is on the east side of Los Angeles. It runs a short distance through the center of the city. If you follow it north it turns into Glendale Blvd. and the 2 freeway, south and it turns into Hoover. When I was a teenager, Alvarado Street was known as the place to get a good fake id. Parts of it are lined with merchants selling everything from tamales to trinkets to - well - false identification. A few years ago Alvarado Street made headlines for being the artery of the Rampart Division, a section made notorious by gang activity and the dirtiest cops in the LAPD. Despite its bluster, I like Alvarado Street. I actually think it's quite beautiful.