Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times
- Vivian Bowers works in a neighborhood that has gone undercover.
“Are there still businesses over there?” people ask when she mentions her dry-cleaning shop on South Central Avenue near East Adams Boulevard.
Five years ago, the city expunged the name “South Central” from its maps and replaced it with the more general “South Los Angeles.” The change was meant to erase the stigma of riots and blight that marred an area south of the 10 Freeway and along Central Avenue, a place renowned in the 1940s for its thriving black culture — restaurants, jazz clubs and businesses.
