Near the intersection of Hoover and 70th streets in South Los Angeles you’ll find a sizable park and community center. Yet, the only thing bigger than the park is the site’s incredible history as Mount Carmel High School, a top-performing secondary school throughout the late 1930s to the mid 1970s in South LA. What happened to this school? And how did it become decimated to a site.

Want to learn more? Check out the full article on The South LA Recap website - https://southlarecap.com/2023/03/05/m...

More information on the Rock & Roll High School movie that was filmed at Mount Carmel High School in South Los Angeles - Rock & Roll High School - https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/ro...

More information on the Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument process - https://planning.lacity.org/odocument...

Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:07 Building Mount Carmel High School
3:49 Mount Carmel's Swift Decline
5:13 Post Mount Carmel High School

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