Temple Street (Los Angeles) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Temple Street is a street in the City of Los Angeles, California. The street is an east-west thoroughfare that runs through Downtown Los Angeles parallel to the Hollywood Freeway between Virgil Avenue past Alameda Street to the banks of the Los Angeles River. It was developed as a simple one-block long lane by Jonathan Temple, a mid-19th Century Los Angeles cattle rancher and merchant. Originally, Temple terminated at the intersection of Main and Spring streets and, for decades, only extended west from that point. Later, Temple was extended eastward into the industrial district of town, while Main and Spring were rerouted so that they did not conjoin at Temple. From the late 1860s, as development pushed westward from the older downtown, Temple Street became a fashionable residential thoroughfare and remained so into the 1880s.