Maywood - background & google map

Maywood, CA, is a tiny municipality located a half-dozen miles southeast of DWTN Los Angeles. It is literally surrounded by East/SE LA's large grimy industrial district and railroads, some of the grittiest districts in America. The surrounding municipalities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park,and Cudahy are some of the poorest, densest, heavily immigrant latino districts in US. Maywood is 96% latino, and 1/4 of its population is likely illegal. It has long been known that Maywood civic government is corrupt, a trait it shares with other cities along the Alameda railroad corridor such as South Gate, Vernon, Bell, Compton. ect.


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Here is satellite image of Maywood and entire area of SE LA. Maywood is so screwed up that the Maywood riverside park was declare an EPA superfund site(enviro wasted zone). Scrow & pan around: North, west ,and east of Maywood are LA's huge industrial/warehouse/railroad yards district, one of largest collections of industrial firms in US. Numberless railroad tracts snake up and stream in from LA/LB harbors and coil all over here.
Taking Bandini, Washington, distrcit blvds westward u see endless series of large factories and 18 wheelers galore. Taking downey north will get you into east LA. and after navigating a tortuous maze of rutted roads, freeway intersections and 3rd world hoods u can slowly wind your way into dwtn LA, basically heading due west by northwest.
The residential tracts adjacent to these industrial districts, which comprise the cities of Maywood, Huntington Park, Bell, East LA, Bell Gardens, Southgate, and South/ central LA are densely packed, ghettoish, 90% dezoned, 80-90% recent immigrant( 30-40% illegal), impoverished, and basicaly some of the most run- down 3rd world districts in LA and CA.

BTW Slauson Ave, which runs straight thru Maywood and all way west to 110 freeway, is a good introduction to the gritty 3rd world impoverished aspect of South LA. There is no more seamier,grimy,gutted,3rd worldish thoroughfare in USA than Slauson.