History of Our Neighborhood

The City of Sawtelle was annexed by the City of Los Angeles as the Sawtelle annex. Arguably, the Sawtelle area has had nothing to gain from this annexation.

Our Neighborhood was Redlined as a “Hazardous” area by the Banks in the 1930s and 1940s.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redlining/ https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/05d32e3f908d463a83ef568bb6646b54 https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7c68f65bb296484cbac51eb21dce3999

Link to Wikipedia page on Sawtelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtelle,_Los_Angeles

Unreviewed external site on wikiwand https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sawtelle,_Los_Angeles

Link to a UCLA Luskin report on Sawtelle in the context of preserving “ethnic” neighborhoods (pdf download) https://knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Sawtelle-Background-Preserving-Ethnic-Neighborhoods-Through-Cultural-Institutions_2015.pdf

Link to UCLA descriptions of “Japanese” neighborhoods (pdf download) https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/news/Sawtelle1_JapaneseNghds.pdf

Link on Japanese City attractions, etc https://www.japanese-city.com/calendar/events/p/location-japanese-sawtelle.php?s=name