Central Avenue (Los Angeles)

Central Avenue is a major north–south thoroughfare in the central portion of the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area. Located just to the west of the Alameda Corridor, it runs south from the eastern end of the Los Angeles Civic Center down to the east side of California State University, Dominguez Hills and terminating at East Del Amo Boulevard in Carson.

From north to south, Central Avenue passes through Downtown Los Angeles, the areas of South Los Angeles (including Watts, Florence-Graham, Willowbrook), the city of Compton, and the city of Carson, which is part of the 17-city South Bay area of Los Angeles County.

Transportation[edit]

Central Avenue provides bus service along Metro Local: Line 53.

Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles (Roth Family Foundation Book in American Music), Clora Bryant et al., 978-0-520-22098-0

Central Avenue: Its Rise and Fall, 1890-C1955, Including the Musical Renaissance of Black LA, Bette Yarbrough Cox, 978-0-9650783-1-3

The Great Black Way: L.A.’s Central Avenue in the 1940s And the Rise of African-American Pop Culture, R.J. Smith, 978-1-58648-295-4

Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue (Music/Culture), , ISBN 978-0-8195-6287-6

Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.