Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"The streets were especially dark and empty. Central Avenue was like a giant black alley and I felt like a small rat, hugging the corners and looking out for cats."

"We drove into the Los Angeles Black Belt, Central Avenue, night clubs, abandoned apartment houses, broken‐down business houses, the forlorn street of poverty for the Negro and swank for the whites."

"The family and friends went back to Olive’s house on Central Avenue to eat and to drink coffee, to see how each one was taking it, and to do and say the decent things."

"On an impulse he turned off Main Street and walked up Central Avenue to number 130, the high white house of Ernest Steinbeck."

"After a considered time he walked around the corner on Central Avenue and rang the bell of Adam Trask’s house."

"He walked very fast in the gathering darkness, out Central Avenue, past the park and past Stonewall Jackson Smart’s house clear to the place beyond the streetlights where the street became a county road and angled to avoid Tollot’s farm house."

"All day he sat cross-legged on his table in the little shop on Alisal Street, and in the evening he walked home to his small white house far out on Central Avenue."

"He walked to Stone Street where the Catholic church is and turned left, went past the Carriaga house, the Wilson house, the Zabala house, and turned left on Central Avenue at the Steinbeck house."

"A guard standing near by leered at me. 'What'd y'all do las' night, boy? I bet y'all had a ball down on Central Avenue."

"I got in my car and drove over to Central to get some gas."

"‘I want to go slumming down on Central Avenue.’"

"Instinct carried me over toward Central, into the heart of the ghetto."