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Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles
Pershing Square Over the Years/Pershing Square por el paso de los años
Nicholas Clayton, August 19, 2024

Pershing Square has and continues to have an important role in the history of Los Angeles. In fact, what is today known as Pershing Square was, in fact, La Plaza Abaja, the 6th Street Park, and even known as Central Park. In 1918, the downtown park was renamed Pershing Square.

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Downtown Los Angeles, George Coupland Thomas, Thomas Brothers Map Company, 1946.
Gay Downtown Los Angeles
Glen Creason, June 06, 2016

Previously, in writing about Pershing Square I neglected to describe the essential role the place had in the Gay history of Los Angeles. This post is an attempt to redress that lack of research and to recognize LGBT month at Los Angeles Public Library.

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