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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Los Angeles County, City of Alhambra
| Alhambra is named
after Washington Irving's book Tales From The Alhambra. It was founded as a
suburb of Los Angeles in 1903. From World War II onward, Alhambra and other
cities in the western San Gabriel Valley saw a considerable influx of persons
of Mexican ancestry, primarily in the form of upwardly mobile families moving
up from less affluent Latino areas such as Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles.
In the 1950s, numerous Italian-American families also settled in largely
middle-class Alhambra, having left the working-class Lincoln Heights district
in inner-city Los Angeles. Since the 1970s and 1980s, the city's proximity to
Asian American-dominated Monterey Park has attracted many East Asian
immigrants. The Asian immigrants settling in Alhambra are usually considerably
less affluent than those moving to places such as San Marino, Arcadia and
Diamond Bar, with the result that Alhambra has developed some notoriety as a
center of Asian-American gang activity, even though many gang members come from
the neighboring towns of Rosemead and San Gabriel. Since the 1960s, Alhambra
has suffered from traffic congestion as a result of South Pasadena's success in
blocking the completion of the Long Beach Freeway; instead of continuing to the
Foothill Freeway in Pasadena, as originally planned, the Long Beach Freeway
instead terminates at Valley Boulevard in southwestern Alhambra, overloading
many of the city's north-south
appraisal thoroughfares. As South Pasadena is considerably wealthier and
whiter than Alhambra, the impasse has led to significant friction between the
two municipalities, including a notable incident in which South Pasadena high
school students used caustic chemicals to etch their town's name into the front
lawn of Alhambra High School. |
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