Main Street, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
by James Patterson"I decide to open a newsstand on Main Street in Winston-Salem."
Ask The Dust
by John Fante"Main Street after the show, midnight: neon tubes and a light fog, honky tonks and all night picture houses."
Ask The Dust
by John Fante"But down on Main Street, down on Towne and San Pedro, and for a mile on lower Fifth Street were the tens of thousands of others;"
Ask The Dust
by John Fante"At Sixth I turned the corner and walked down to Main. I wandered through the crowds of seedy, hungry derelicts without destination."
Ask The Dust
by John Fante"We drove to a shooting gallery on Main Street."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"You walked west on Main Street until it bent. That’s where Castroville Street crossed Main."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"At John Street the road angled and became Main Street. Adam stamped the mud off his shoes when he reached the pavement."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"On an impulse he turned off Main Street and walked up Central Avenue to number 130, the high white house of Ernest Steinbeck."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Since the East End School was way to hell and gone across town and the children who lived east of Main Street attended there, I will not bother with it."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Then she moved slowly along Main Street, looking in the store windows."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Alf could tell you about everybody on both sides of Main Street."
Fat City
by Leonard Gardner"Billy Tully arbeitete in der Küche eines Burger-Restaurants auf der Main Street."
Fat City
by Leonard Gardner"Auf der Main Street fuhren einige Autos, die leeren Bürgersteige waren hell erleuchtet."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I walk along Main Street, Los Angeles, now."
City of Night
by John Rechy"And Main Street in Los Angeles is such an anarchy. This is clip street, hustle street—frenzied-nightactivity street: the moving back and forth against the walls; smoking, peering anxiously to spot the bulls before they spot you; the rushing in and out of Wally’s and Harry’s: long crowded malehustling bars."
City of Night
by John Rechy"We went to Main Street, and I'm feeling an intensified sense of perception—as if suddenly I can see clearly."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Sometimes when I'm very high and sitting maybe at the 1-2-3, I imagine that an angel suddenly appears and stands on the balcony where the band is going—or maybe I'm on Main Street or in Pershing Square—and the angel says, 'All right, boys and girls, this is it, the world is ending, and Heaven or Hell will be to spend eternity just as you are now, in the same place among the same people—Forever!"
City of Night
by John Rechy"And Main Street, though also fuzzhot, is even more crowded now. When the bars close on Main Street, their world spills into the streets."
The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar"She found herself in the Mexican‐flavored barrio squeezed in between the railroad tracks and the bargain shopping of the city’s Main Street."
The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar"“¿Y la Main, dónde está?” “You know where my homie Ruben lives?” “Have any idea, honey, where I might find the United States Post Office?”"
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes"I dreamed I was lying in the middle of Main Street downtown in front of the Federal Building and two poor peckerwoods in overalls were standing over me beating me with lengths of rubber hose."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"At eight-thirty on a Wednesday morning Kate walked up Main Street, climbed the stairs of the Monterey County Bank Building, and walked along the corridor until she found the door which said, “Dr. Wilde—Office Hours 11-2.”"
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"Cal moved slowly along Main Street, looking in store windows. He wondered where Kate was buried, and he laughed at himself for the impulse."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"“Oh!” said Aron. “There’s a man on Main Street, right on the street, and he’s got a little stove and he cooks sausages and puts them in buns. They cost a nickel. And you can take all the mustard you want.”"
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"And the gangling, shuffling loose-jointed boys carrying suitcases were marching awkwardly down Main Street to the Southern Pacific Depot."
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck"They hurried up to Main Street and one short block and around the corner on Central past Reynaud’s with stacked French bread in the window and black-haired Mrs. Reynaud waved her flour-pale hand at them."
The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac"At Calexico it was Christmas shopping time on Main Street with incredible perfect astonished Mexican beauties who kept getting so much better that when the first ones had repassed they'd already become capped and thin in my mind..."
Fat City
by Leonard Gardner"und verschwanden einer nach dem anderen im blauen Licht des frühen Morgens, über die Main Street und die Market Street, über Center und El Dorado, zurück zu ihren Pensionen, zu Rasen und Schatten von Washington Square, in die chinesischen und mexikanischen Imbissbuden und die Bars, die gerade wieder aufmachten."