When talking about the British capital, the 18th Century British essayist and biographer Samuel Johnson is reported to have once said,”Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
With apologies to London, the same words could be applied to one of L.A.’s most famous streets, Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The street, which cuts through the heard of downtown, is block for block, maybe the most interesting and historic thoroughfares in the city, a street where generations of Angelenos have gathered and where so much of L.A.’s civic history has played out.
Currently, Broadway is in the midst of a commercial and demographic shift as new stores open and people move in.