El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument
Historic plaza and marketplace of adobe buildings marking the birthplace of a city, rebuilt as a Mexican-style street in nineteen thirty.
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This guide to El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument in Los Angeles opens in nineteen twenty eight, when a crumbling adobe on a forgotten dead-end alley called Olvera Street was condemned and slated for demolition. It follows Christine Sterling, a Northern California transplant who fought to save it, painting her own protest sign and talking a newspaper publisher, investors and the county sheriff into backing her cause. The adobe at the street's center was built in eighteen eighteen for a two-time mayor, Francisco Avila.
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