It’s not generally known that a few small blocks of the neighborhood persisted as late as the early 1950s, wedged in between Alameda and the Plaza. Unfortunately this is all gone now, having made way for more parking lots (of course), access roads, and rather pointless bits of landscaping that do nothing to further the preservation of the city’s history. This is also partly the work of Christine Sterling, “mother of Olvera Street”, who wanted the Chinese to clear out of the Plaza area. You can read this in William Estrada’s “The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred And Contested Space”.