Stocker Avenue Improvement – Los Angeles CA

City:
Los Angeles, CA

Site Type:
Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

A 1939 report on WPA work in Southern California described the construction of Stocker Avenue:

“Work Projects No. 1638 and 7240, sponsored by Los Angeles County, was constructed to provide outlet facilities to Crenshaw Boulevard for the residents of the Baldwin Hills District, lying between Crenshaw Boulevard and La Brea Boulevard and is a link in the route from this district to Inglewood and the beaches.

The work consisted of grading and surfacing with rock and oil approximately 612,000 square feet of roadway and installing a drain consisting of 300 lineal feet of concrete pipe, ranging from 30″ to 54″ in diameter, connecting with an existing storm drain in Crenshaw Boulevard.

The total cost of this improvement was $151,600 of which amount $82,001 was supplied from federal funds.”

Additionally, 23 men per month on average were employed for 11 months on No. 1638

Source notes

Connolly, Donald H. and G. I. Farman. Report of Accomplishment of the Operations Division. Works Progress Administration, Southern California. January 1, 1939.

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on February 28, 2017.

Location Info


3624 Stocker St.
Los Angeles, CA 90008
Los Angeles County

Coordinates: 34.0080207, -118.3359697

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