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[Place Name]: Beaudry Avenue
[Source]: Prudent Beaudry, Los Angeles mayor
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[Place Name]: Pico Boulevard
[Source]: Pío Pico, last Mexican Governor of Alta California
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[Place Name]: Tujunga neighborhoodTujunga Avenue
[Source]: From the Tongva term Tuyunga, meaning mountain range from tu'xuu = old woman tu'xuunga = place of the old woman
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[Place Name]: Watts neighborhood
[Source]: C. H. Watts, real estate developer
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[Place Name]: Olympic Boulevard
[Source]: Formerly 10th Street; First referred to as Olympic Blvd in 1931 in honor of X Olympiad in 1932 (name change official in 1935)
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[Place Name]: Olvera Street
[Source]: Augustín Olvera, early Los Angeles judge
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With the exception of the West Coast State of Washington, all the other English-speaking states are on the east coast, almost 13 of them. Connecticut and Rhode Island, though not originally from English, were both influenced by the English language. These states were the 13 British colonies in North America when the United States was founded. From the west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Great Plains, states are named after the language of the Native Americans. After the founding of the United States, development to the west of the Appalachian Mountains was not permitted for a long time, and the land belonged to various Indian tribes. Hence the names of many states in the Midwest and Central Plains are derived from the native American languages.
The random generator tool collates 37 items and records the Etymology of Los Angeles place names. One can see that all of these places are in the tool generator, including Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Aliso Street, Baldwin Hills neighborhood, Beaudry Avenue, Bel-Air neighborhood, and so on.
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