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In 2023

"Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really."

dek: "A stroll down Rosecrans Avenue is not a pleasure. But it does offer a 27-mile canvas of the city’s vastness and its diverse communities coexisting."

NYT / by Rosecrans Baldwin

"Probably most of Greater L.A. is awful to experience on foot. Yet there’s so much of it, radiating from multiple cores, that the amount worth walking is colossal."

Commemorated on this date

1945: The 9th Armored Division (US) captures the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany. This was, incidentally, the basis of the 1969 film, _The Bridge at Remagen_.

1965: Bloody Sunday, Selma, Alabama