Don’t confuse this place with the famous Rodeo Dr., which is a tourist trap; this is Rodeo (pronounced Rodeo - like the western festival) Rd. Totally diff place.
Go look it up on a map. lol
Back in 1976, I had a job that often took me to a neighborhood in Baldwin Park through which Rodeo Road runs that consisted mostly of apartment houses inhabited mostly by middle-class blacks. The neighborhood was called the Jungle because of its tropical foliage. Nearby, on La Brea Ave. between Rodeo and Coliseum was a shopping mall that featured a Thrifty Drug Store where I would sometimes stop for an ice cream cone.
I drove through there after the 1992 Rodney King riot. The Thrifty Drug Store was a burned-out shell and the rest of the neighborhood looked like Berlin in 1945.
Incidentally, the neighborhood is still called the Jungle but for reasons in addition to its foliage.