Encyclopedia > Rancho Park, Los Angeles, California
Rancho Park is a small neighborhood in western Los Angeles, California. It is bordered by Palms on the south, West Los Angeles on the west and north, and Cheviot Hills and Beverlywood on the east. Major thoroughfares include Pico, Westwood, and Olympic Boulevards and Overland Avenue. The Santa Monica Freeway separates the district from Palms.
Apart from the heavily traveled stretch of Pico Boulevard (including the Westside Pavilion shopping mall) in its central portions, Rancho Park has a notably quiet, suburban feel. Its housing stock consists largely of Mediterranean-style bungalows and ranch houses on streets with faux 19th-century streetlights and large deciduous trees. While not as upscale as Cheviot Hills or Brentwood, it is generally a fairly affluent neighborhood.
Since 2002, the ongoing reconstruction of Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles has considerably disrupted the neighborhood's quiet: as Overland Avenue provides a direct route between Santa Monica Boulevard and the Santa Monica Freeway, it has become a favorite thoroughfare for trucks traveling from industrial areas to the construction site.
LosAngeles became a center of oil production in the early 20th Century (by 1923 the region was producing one-quarter of the world's total supply, and it is still a significant producer).
A steady migration of Mexicans to California from 1910 to 1930 expanded the Mexican and Chicano population in LosAngeles to approximately 200,000.
Los Angeles-Latino community was largely disenfranchised until the 1990s, when redistricting led to the election of Latino members of the City Council for the first time since the 1950s and the first Latino members of the LosAngeles County Board of Supervisors since its inception.
Orange County is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by LosAngeles County, on the northeast by San Bernardino County, on the east by Riverside County, and on the south by San Diego County.
Southern California freeways The Santa Ana Freeway is one of the principal freeways in Southern California, connecting LosAngeles, California and its southeastern suburbs.
The Artesia Freeway is a freeway in southeastern LosAngeles County and northwestern Orange County, California.
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