Map of Los Angeles Featuring Downtown – Civic Center – Points of Interest

The end of the 1960s in Los Angeles.

“No other American city was so utterly remade by the 1960s as Los Angeles. Famously cavalier about torpedoing its past to make way for a fuzzily conceived future, L.A. was the perfect conquest for thousands of rampaging baby boomers wresting the cultural agenda through sheer preemption. During its golden rock and roll era of the mid- to late ’60s, L.A. saw some of its most venerable commercial districts, from Venice to the Sunset Strip, yanked into the here and now by covetous boomers remaking the city in their purple-hazy image. The moment peaked and passed in 1969, as the twin shocks of the Rolling Stones’ disastrous Altamont concert and the Manson murders in Los Angeles shook the flowers out of everyone’s hair, a watershed captured in native Angeleno Quentin Tarantino’s just-released Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” – Los Angeles Magazine

This fascinating map of Los Angeles was designed by the wonderfully named Arsenious Slusarouque and published in North Hollywood by Mitock & Sons in 1969. One side presents an ‘Arterial Map of Los Angeles and Vicinity’; emphasizing primary highways and noting sixty different locations of interest across the region.

The verso shows a large-scale map of downtown L.A., heavily modified with annotations (likely reflecting prior use in a real estate office). Buildings are individually outlined and labeled, including the proposed ‘Auditorium & Exhibition Center’ (opened in 1971). Accompanying text provides an interesting history of the city, descriptions of points of interest, and a street index.

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