Just 600 feet long, LA’s Olvera Street is the oldest street in the city, a brick-paved lane that functions as a marketplace, theme park, and a living museum. The street as we know it today — an ...

Christine Stirling is the woman who, in the 1920s, “saved” Olvera Street. One of L.A.’s earliest historic neighborhoods and its oldest buildings had crumbled into an unsightly mess ...

Around the same time foot traffic slowed on Olvera Street in March 2020 — no children on field trips, no tourists flocking to the historic site to taste and shop their way through L.A.’s ...

The downside to lunch at Olvera Street is that unless you take the DASH bus, you have to pay to park - usually about $7. The upsides are the formidably cheap Mexican food and lively visuals ...

As a young man growing up in 1980s Los Angeles, Pedro Alamillo would often find himself on Olvera Street, a historic downtown enclave known as the “birthplace of Los Angeles.” Alamillo would ...

Valerie Hanley owns a gift shop on Olvera Street that's been in her family for 57 years. Since COVID, Hanley says business is the worst she’s ever seen. “We’re a tourist attraction. Right now, there ...

Crowds trickled through historic Olvera Street during its annual Día de Los Muertos celebrations, honoring their deceased loved ones with altars and offerings. "It's great to see how they honor ...

One of Olvera Street’s most photographed icons may soon vanish from his post because of a ruling by a Los Angeles city commission. Jorge, the stuffed donkey known as “El Burro” who greets ...

La Carreta has been a landmark family venture at Olvera Street for decades, attracting everyone from mayors, celebrities and tourists to take a picture on top of the stuffed donkey for a small fee ...

Early Saturday morning on Olvera Street, face painters worked in the dark, getting Los Muertos 5k participants ready with sugar skull faces – all in celebration of Day of the Dead. The annual ...

Hundreds of people and their pets attended the blessing of the animals by Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gomez on Holy Saturday on Olvera Street. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) 33,714 people ...