Category Archives: Thai Town
- 23-5-2013
Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge Presents Thai Airways with a certificate to commemorate the historic trip to Bangkok where Los Angeles and Bangkok will become Friendship Cities.
Los Angeles Councilman Tom Labonge and members of his delegation , Thai Community Development Center and the Royal Thai Consulate General will make a historic trip to Bangkok to celebrate the unity and friendship that exists between Los Angeles and Bangkok. The bond between the two cities has existed for decades and now that bond Continue Reading
- 7-4-2013
Unveiling of the Kinarra
April 7th, 2013 marks a monumental day as the Thai Community Development Center unveils the first pair of Kinarra Lamp Post Monuments on Hollywood and Hobart Blvds. The almost five foot tall statues erected to a 17 foot tall lamppost arrived in Los Angeles on March 5th. These mythical figures represent the latest effort by Continue Reading
- 22-3-2013
Thai CDC Breaks Ground! The Kinarra Are Landing Soon!
Friday, March 22, 2013 marked a monumental day as the Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) broke ground to install the first pair of Kinarra Lamp Post Monuments on Hollywood and Hobart Blvds. The almost five foot tall statutes erected to a 17 foot tall lamp post that arrived in Los Angeles on March 5th Continue Reading
- 3-8-2008
A Boost for Thai Town Its ‘Preserve America’ Designation Marks it as Culturally Significant
August 03, 2008|Teresa Watanabe | Staff Writer On a recent afternoon, Los Angeles urban planners Chancee Martorell and Alex Holsheimer looked at a nondescript intersection and envisioned the makings of a signature plaza that would bring a physical focal point to the six-block area along Hollywood Boulevard known as Thai Town. The parking lot at Continue Reading
- 2-8-2007
A New Take on Thai Town
August 02, 2007|David Pierson and Anna Gorman | Times Staff Writers The western entrance to Thai Town in East Hollywood is guarded by two golden Apsonsi angel statues — half-woman, half-lion figures of Thai folklore symbolically charged with guarding the ethnic enclave. Eight years after the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard from Western to Normandie avenues Continue Reading
- 2-7-2002
A Thai-Style Piece of the American Pie
Community Shop lets immigrants accomplish together what they can’t individually: own their own business. July 02, 2002|MARIA ELENA FERNANDEZ | STAFF WRITER Talk of the future comes up a lot in this small, new Hollywood Boulevard storefront that is not part of the Hollywood business boom but offers a boost of a different kind. Here Continue Reading
- 28-10-1999
City Council Designates Area as ‘Thai Town’
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / A news summary | The Local Review / DEVELOPMENTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY October 28, 1999 HOLLYWOOD — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to designate an area east of Hollywood as “Thai Town,” the first official Thai town in the nation. The designation was proposed by Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg, Continue Reading