How Boyle Heights is Fighting the Forces of Change
Clip: Season 8 Episode 5 | 10m 59s
After World War II, Boyle Heights was forcibly cut off from the rest of LA by freeways.
In the decades after World War II, the Boyle Heights section of East Los Angeles, just across the river from the skyscrapers of downtown and once a center of Jewish culture in L.A., was forcibly cut off from the rest of the city by a tangle of freeways. In certain ways, that isolation proved to be a source of strength for Boyle Heights, which developed a fiercely independent identity by the 1970s.
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How Boyle Heights is Fighting the Forces of Change
Clip: Season 8 Episode 5 | 10m 59s
In the decades after World War II, the Boyle Heights section of East Los Angeles, just across the river from the skyscrapers of downtown and once a center of Jewish culture in L.A., was forcibly cut off from the rest of the city by a tangle of freeways. In certain ways, that isolation proved to be a source of strength for Boyle Heights, which developed a fiercely independent identity by the 1970s.
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