Carthay is a residential district in the Mid-Wilshire region of west-central Los Angeles, California. Mid-Wilshire is a region in west-central Los Angeles, California. ... Nickname: City of Angels Motto: Official website: http://www. ...

Geography and Transportation

Carthay is bordered by the Miracle Mile District on the east, Picfair Village on the south, Beverlywood on the west, and the Fairfax District and the city of Beverly Hills on the north. The district is roughly bounded by Wilshire Boulevard on the north, La Cienega Boulevard on the west, Pico Boulevard on the south, and Fairfax Avenue on the east. Principal thoroughfares through the district include San Vicente, Olympic, and Crescent Heights Boulevards. The Miracle Mile The Miracle Mile is lined by many high-rise buildings. ... Carthay is a large residential district in western Los Angeles, California. ... Beverlywood is a district on the West Side of Los Angeles, California. ... The Fairfax District is an area of neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles, California, that is roughly bordered by West Hollywood on the north, La Brea Avenue on the east, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills on the west and Wilshire Boulevard on the south. ... Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, almost entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. ...

Carthay comprises three neighborhoods: Carthay Circle, which lies to the north of Olympic Boulevard; South Carthay, which is south of Olympic and west of Crescent Heights Boulevard; and Carthay Square, to the south of Olympic and east of Crescent Heights. Also lying within the district is the Little Ethiopia commercial strip on Fairfax Avenue between Olympic and Whitworth Street. Little Ethiopia refers to the stretch of Fairfax Avenue on the West Side of Los Angeles, California between Olympic and Pico boulevards. ...

History and the Neighborhood Today

"Carthay Center" was developed by J. Harvey McCarthy in 1922 as an upscale residential district along the San Vicente Boulevard line of the Pacific Electric Railway. The development included the exquisite Carthay Circle movie theater, at San Vicente and Crescent Heights Boulevards. The areas to the south of Olympic Boulevard remained undeveloped until 1933, when developer Spyros George Ponty built several hundred homes in two districts later named "South Carthay" and "Carthay Square." The Pacific Electric Railway (AAR reporting mark PE), also known as the Red Car system, was a mass transit system in Southern California using streetcars, light rail and buses. ...

Initially limited by restrictive covenants to whites, Carthay has since become fairly diverse, with many middle-class black, Latino, and Asian families living within the district. As with most of Mid-Wilshire, much of its non-Latino white population is Jewish. A large portion of Carthay's African-Americans are of Ethiopian ancestry, accounting for many of the employees and customers of the shops of Little Ethiopia. A restrictive covenant is a legal obligation imposed in a deed by the seller upon the buyer of real estate to do or not to do something. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי transliterated: Yehudi) is used in many ways but generally refers to a follower of Judaism, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ...

One of Carthay Circle's most interesting features is its network of pedestrian pathways, which are marked and maintained as regular city streets by the city of Los Angeles. These have been a mixed blessing: while they make it a very pedestrian-friendly area, they also were the site of numerous muggings in the 1970s and 1980s. While Carthay as a whole is now one of the safer neighborhoods in the non-San Fernando Valley portions of Los Angeles, many of its homes still have extensive installations of burglar bars dating to that period. Mugging may refer to: A type of robbery. ... San Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in southern California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles. ...

The Carthay Circle Theater

The Carthay Circle was one of the most famous "picture palaces" of Hollywood's "Golden Age." It hosted the official premiere of Gone with the Wind, among other films. By the 1960s, it was considered obsolete, overshadowed by multiplexes; its customer base had also been sapped by suburbanization. In 1970, it was demolished; two low-rise office buildings and a city park occupy its former site. Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... Multiplex may mean: Multiplex (comics), a DC Comics character. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ...

Housing

Single-family houses are most prevalent in Carthay Circle and South Carthay, while two- and three-family houses prevail in Carthay Square. Mid-sized apartment buildings, mostly built in the 1930s, line the arterial peripheries of all three neighborhoods. Most of the houses, duplexes, and triplexes are built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Strict enforcement of restrictive covenants by the area's homeowners associations meant that most of these remained standing into the 1980s, when South Carthay was designated for preservation in Los Angeles' Historic Preservation Overlay Zone program; Carthay Circle followed in the 1990s. The Spanish Colonial Revival Style was an architectural form that dominated in the early Spanish colonies of both North and South America. ... A restrictive covenant is a legal promise made in a deed by the buyer of real estate to do or not to do something, and not to sell it without exacting the same promise from the next buyer. ... Some of the developments that real estate developers build are common interest developments, a category that includes planned–unit developments of single–family houses, condominiums, and cooperative apartments. ... Historic preservation is the theory and practice of creatively maintaining the historic built environment and controlling the landscape component of which it is an integral part. ...

Demographics

United States Census tracts 2163 and 2168 are exactly contiguous with the borders of Carthay. As of the 2000 census, the district had a population of 8229. Racial representation was 64.3% white, 15.1% black or African-American, 0.3% Native American, 10.5% Asian or Pacific Islander, 5.2% some other race, and 4.5% two or more races; 13.1% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Per capita income was $34,265; 5.0% of individuals were under the federal poverty line. ... The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

External links

• PICO Neighborhood Council
• South Carthay Neighborhood Association