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Belmont High School. Photo by Jessica Hodgdon/L.A. Conservancy

Belmont High School

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Belmont High School garnered national attention for the role it, along with four other Los Angeles high schools, played in the East L.A. Chicano Student Walkouts (Blowouts) of March 1968. In the 1990s, Belmont High was one of the nation's largest schools with over 5,000 students.
Hollywood Boulevard east of Highland Avenue, near the parade's starting point. Photo by Laura Dominguez/L.A. Conservancy

Christopher Street West / L.A. Pride Parade

Christopher Street West spearheaded the world's first LGBTQ pride parade in Hollywood in 1970.
Owner Jorge Tello inside La Casa del Mariachi. Photo by M. Rosalind Sagara/L.A. Conservancy.

La Casa del Mariachi

La Casa del Mariachi offers custom charro suits in the heart of Boyle Heights.
Courtesy of Phillip Zonkel/Q Voice News

Oil Can Harry's

Opened in 1968, Oil Can Harry's is a significant LGBTQ+ country-western bar in Studio City
Photo by Marisela Ramirez/L.A. Conservancy

Ruben Salazar Park

Laguna Park, now Ruben Salazar Park, was the terminus of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium march and the site where protesters and law enforcement first clashed.
Photo by Adrian Scott Fine/L.A. Conservancy

Terminal Island Japanese Memorial

Dedicated in 2002, this memorial serves as a reminder of Terminal Island’s once-thriving former Japanese American community, with residents forcibly removed in 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor.