Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia

GeographyAlhambra is located about 8 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles at 34°4′55″N,118°8′6″W (34.081859, -118.135052) GR1 . It is bordered by South Pasadena on thenorthwest, San Marino on the north, San Gabriel on the east, Rosemead on the southeast,Monterey Park on the south, and the Los Angeles districts of Monterey Hills and ElSereno on the west. Major thoroughfares include Atlantic and Valley Boulevards,Mission Road, and Garfield Avenue. The San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) runs throughthe city's southern portions, and the Long Beach Freeway (I-710) has its northernterminus at Valley Boulevard in the far southwestern portions of the city.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 19.7 km² (7.6mi²), all of which is land.HistoryAlhambra is named after Washington Irving's book Tales From The Alhambra, not afterthe Alhambra palace itself. [1] Alhambra was founded as a suburb of Los Angeles in1903. Its primarily Asian (Chinese and Korean) and white, Midwestern nature throughoutthe first 60 years of its history is reflected in the fact that even today, most SouthernCalifornians pronounce the middle syllable of the city's name as a homophone with ham,the meat.From World War II onward, Alhambra and other cities in the western San Gabriel Valleysaw a considerable influx of persons of Mexican ancestry, primarily in the form ofupwardly mobile families moving up from less affluent Latino areas such as BoyleHeights and East Los Angeles. In the 1950s, numerous Italian-American families alsosettled in largely middle-class Alhambra, having left the working-class Lincoln Heightsdistrict in inner-city Los Angeles. Since the 1970s, white flight has led to a considerabledecrease in the city's white population, and the remaining white residents arepredominantly empty-nesters and retirees.Since the 1970s and 1980s, the city's proximity to Asian American-dominated MontereyPark has attracted many East Asian immigrants (initially from Taiwan and Vietnam, butnow largely from Hong Kong and Mainland China). An active Chinese business district