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ADAMS 1 JEFFERSON Check out our Central Ave mix 2 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR 5 4 3 6 Vernon ciclavia.org/we_rise_central_ride VERNON VERNON HOOPER LONG BEACH LONG WESTERN NORMANDIE FIGUEROA BROADWAY MAIN FE SANTA PACIFIC SOTO DOWNEY SAN PEDRO AVALON CENTRAL VERMONT HOOVER AL LEONIS AMEDA 7 Slauson SLAUSON SLAUSON 8 RANDOLF GAGE GAGE GAGE CENTRAL HOOPER COMPTON 110 Florence FLORENCE HOOVER WESTERN NORMANDIE FIGUEROA VERMONT VAN NESS VAN FLORENCE Central Avenue AL AMEDA STATE 79TH NADEAU Choose a route that suits your destination or your curiosity. Don’t be Firestone afraid to start small—with fewer people MANCHESTER MANCHESTER FIRESTONE BROADWAY MAIN or slower traffic. And you may decide SAN PEDRO AVALON to visit restaurants and sights along the FIRESTONE way, so remember to bring a bike lock, 92ND Bike Shop and check business hours ahead of time. GRANDEE LONG BEACH SOUTHERN Bike Lanes Have fun exploring the community! CENTURY CENTURY Bike Routes 9 10 103rd Street / TWEEDY 103RD 103RD 11 Watts Towers 1/2 mile 12 Brought to you by 1 7 Bowers Retail Square Granny’s Kitchen 2 8 27th Street Bakery Tampico Spice Company 3 9 Central Ave Jazz Park Ted Watkins Memorial Park 4 10 Dunbar Hotel Watts Civic Center 5 11 Delicious at the Dunbar Kobe Bryant Mural 6 12 CD9 Constituent Services Center Watts Towers Central Avenue 1 Bowers Retail Square 6 District 9 Constituent 11 Kobe Bryant Mural 2500 S. Central Ave. Services Center East wall of Watts Civic Center Bowers Retail Square was named to 4301 S. Central Ave. Created by PeQue Brown, and com- honor African American business Stay civically engaged and take your missioned by the East Side Riders Bike icons and entrepreneurs Alice and community questions or concerns Club, this mural memorializing Kobe Horace Bowers. They expanded their to your Council Member here! Bryant features one of his most famous small dry cleaning into a block-long quotes, “Great things come from hard complex filled with several businesses 7 work and perseverance. No excuses.” along the South LA corridor. Granny’s Kitchen 5440 S. Central Ave. 12 Watts Towers Known as one of the best southern- 2 27th Street Bakery 1765 E. 107th St. style soul food restaurants anywhere 2700 S. Central Ave. in LA County, this is a can’t-miss. The Watts Towers are a collection of 17 Founded in 1956, the bustling 27th interconnected sculptural structures, Street Bakery is an LA icon. It’s known 8 built over a period of 33 years. This for its incredible homemade sweet Tampico Spice Company National Historic Landmark is just shy potato pies, but you’ll find a wide 5941 S. Central Ave. of 100 feet tall. assortment of pies, cakes, and cobblers. In 1947 Jesus Martinez scraped together $35 to buy his first inventory 3 of spices, which he immediately Central Ave Jazz Park repackaged into small cellophane 4222 S. Central Ave. packets. He peddled his spices door- “I didn’t know where Sunset Boulevard to-door to all the corner markets in the was when I moved to L.A., but sure I LA area. His $35 investment turned knew Central,” legendary producer into a $50 profit, which he used to buy Quincy Jones once said. Central more spices. That’s the how Tampico Avenue Jazz Park honors (and contin- Spice Company—and an incredible LA ues!) this legacy of South LA. story—was born. 4 9 Dunbar Hotel Ted Watkins Memorial 4225 S. Central Ave. Park The Dunbar Hotel was once the most 1335 E. 103rd St. prestigious hotel in LA’s African- American community. A nightclub Ted Watkins Memorial Park is 28-acre at the Dunbar was the center of the facility in South LA and a monumental Central Avenue jazz scene in the 1930s piece of history. It’s home to numerous and 1940s, hosting Duke Ellington, after school recreational activities for Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Louis youth as well as the Promenade of Armstrong, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Prominence Walk of Fame celebrating and many other jazz legends. the accomplishments of community leaders. 5 Delicious at the Dunbar 10 4229 S. Central Ave. Watts Civic Center 1501 E. 103rd St. Delicious at the Dunbar touts itself Share your as a combination of Mexican and Host to countless community CicLAvia organizations and events, from Southern food, slinging out jambalaya explorations! and gumbo as well as mole poblano, youth empowerment days to green southern breakfasts, and a handful of energy expos. culturally-merged options like beef brisket enchiladas. @CicLAvia ciclavia.org.