Thirty-ninth Street, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

Referenced In

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"In the morning, I went to the Korean spa on Thirty-Second Street and sat in their infrared sauna for nearly an hour."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Judge Robert Adalian was driving with the windows open when Araceli, Brandon, and Keenan passed before him at the crosswalk on Thirty-seventh Street and South Broadway."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Two blocks later they arrived at a street sign announcing Thirty-ninth Street and the final confirmation of Araceli’s folly."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Encounters with disoriented travelers were not unusual on Thirty-ninth Street, where Isabel’s rented bungalow stood at the edge of a district of hurricane fencing and barbed wire, of HELP WANTED signs in Korean, Spanish, and Cantonese, where cloth was transformed into boutique T-shirts and steel was cut and solvents were mixed."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Out here, in the world away from the paradise of the Laguna Rancho Estates, there was the silver skin of taco trucks on Thirty-ninth Street, and the fat tortillas the hungry men and women workers raised to their mouths."

If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

"I was in Chicago, man, and I was going down to the A.C. on Thirty-fifth Street, learning how to duke."

If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

"…got that phoney lipless smile that the coppers down at the old Thirty-seventh Street station in Cleveland were famous for when they beat a Negro half to death with a loaded hose."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"On certain moist summer mornings the seagulls came to Thirty-ninth Street and circled over the trash cans behind the garment factory, where the taco trucks tossed the tortillas they didn’t sell."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"… a man said to occupy an orderly American suburban house in a neighborhood that was also the one el abuelo had moved to, according to Mr. Washington back on Thirty-ninth Street."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"“The neighborhood this boy described to you,” the prosecutor began. “Would you say it bore a general resemblance to the neighborhood near the intersection of Thirty-ninth and South Broadway?” “Very general. Yes.”"

There There
by Tommy Orange

"I got out Mom’s makeup mirror and put it under her nose… We were living off of Thirty-Eighth then, in a little blue house with this tiny gated patch of grass that we were still small and young enough to like playing on."