El Sereno (Los Angeles, California)

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El Sereno was founded in 1905 as a working-class suburb of Los Angeles along the former Pacific Electric Railway line that ran in the median of Huntington Drive.
El Sereno was called Bairdstown until 1915.
Like most of East Los Angeles, it was extremely ethnically diverse until World War II and shortly thereafter, when most of its non-Mexican-descended population moved to newer suburbs in other parts of Greater Los Angeles.
Gangs became a serious problem in the late 1970s.
The gentrification that has occurred in many of the districts east of the Los Angeles River has yet to occur to any significant degree in El Sereno, despite its proximity to affluent South Pasadena.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sereno,_Los_Angeles
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Coordinates:   34°4'31"N   118°10'43"W
This article was last modified 3 years ago