the Jungle (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / Marina del Rey / Los Angeles, California
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This area of low rent, high density apartment blocks was known in the 1950s and 1960s to students at Loyola University and Westchester High School as the Jungle.
Even then the origin of that appellation was obscure.
Some students said that it was in reference to the beatniks who were living in this area circa 1958-1963, when it was the southernmost end of a bohemian region known as Venice West. (Venice West was where Orson Welles filmed "Touch of Evil," so you can see how rundown the neighborhood was in those days, when there were still old oil wells everywhere.) Certainly the concentration of these small units in a compact area was more suitable for a bachelor pad than a place to raise a family.
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Coordinates:   33°57'22"N   118°26'57"W
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