I lived near Hawthorne from 1948 to 1964. My folks had an apartment near Hawthorne Blvd. The area was all single family homes dotted with apartment bldg. They sold it in 1972. In 1982 I drove there with my wife to show her the old neighborhood. There were no more homes. All apartment buildings. A total overcrowded mess. We did have lunch at the restaurant they filmed Pulp Fiction in. It was still a mostly white and Asian neighborhood then. I’d rather not see it as it is now. Of course back then Inglewood wasn’t too bad yet either.
We moved to Utah a year later and made a new start. I never want to even see that shyt hole again.
I’m glad that you experienced the good life when Los Angeles was a California Dreamscape. You wouldn’t recognize Hawthorn Boulevard. They put the 105 freeway up in 1984. For many years, as long as you lived west of the Harbor Freeway(110), you were safe. Now you need to be west of the 405 for better life expectancy.
Crenshaw Boulevard, where the murders occurred, is in what is now called the Crenshaw District of northeast Hawthorn which is now touted as the hub of LA’s African American community.
South Hawthorn where it blends into Lawndale is more residential, with far fewer strip malls and is mostly Asian, Latino, and White, and enjoys a safer quality of living..