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.

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