Los Angeles 90012 Yes, the city has a downtown - it's easy to get to via the new subway system, and it offers a whole lot more than the Simpson trial

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: August 13, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

LOS ANGELES -- The O.J. Simpson trial may not have done much for the reputation of the American criminal justice system, but the massive television coverage has certainly improved the image of downtown Los Angeles. If nothing else, it has shown TV viewers that there really is a downtown LA.

After all, those interviews with lawyers, witnesses and dismissed jurors outside the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts Building take place on sidewalks, urban amenities once widely believed (on the East Coast, anyway) to be virtually unknown in car-happy LA. There are people on those sidewalks, too, ...

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