Downey, Los Angeles

Name: Downey
Address: Los Angeles, United States

#583 among attractions in Los Angeles

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Downey is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States, 13 mi southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is considered part of the Gateway Cities. The city is the birthplace of the Apollo space program. It is also the home of the oldest operating McDonald's restaurant in the world. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 111,779. ()

Alternative names: Area: 12.57 mi²Coordinates: 33°56'24"N, 118°7'44"W

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Nearby attractions include: Columbia Memorial Space Center, Stonewood Center, Commerce Casino, The Bicycle Hotel & Casino.

1.4 miS
Museum, History museum, Postmodern architecture
Columbia Memorial Space Center, Los Angeles
37 min walk • The Columbia Memorial Space Center is a vibrant educational facility nestled in the heart of Los Angeles, dedicated to igniting a community's passion for science and space exploration. This museum serves as a fitting tribute to the space shuttle Columbia and its crew...
0.6 miSE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Stonewood Center, Los Angeles
16 min walk • Stonewood Center, sometimes referred to as Stonewood Mall, is a shopping mall located in Downey, California, which is one of the Gateway Cities of Southeastern Los Angeles County. It is located at the intersection of Firestone and Lakewood Boulevards, and it is from this intersection that the mall's name is derived.
4.1 miN
Nightlife, Gambling, Casino
Commerce Casino, Los Angeles
106 min walk • Commerce Casino is a cardroom located in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce. With over 240 tables on site, Commerce Casino is the largest cardroom in the world.
2.8 miNW
Nightlife, Gambling, Casino
The Bicycle Hotel & Casino, Los Angeles
71 min walk • The Bicycle Hotel & Casino is a poker cardroom in California. Founded by George Hardie Sr. in 1984, located in Bell Gardens, California, The Bicycle Casino offers a selection of poker games and Asian games, with a wide range of limits.
1.2 miS
Shopping, Shopping centre
Promenade at Downey, Cerritos
31 min walk • The Promenade at Downey is a 77-acre 656,000-square-foot retail power center in Downey, California, built on the 1,500,000-square-foot mixed-use development on the site of the former Downey Studios, which before that was the site of a Boeing/NASA industrial complex, originally built in 1948 by North American Aviation.
3.7 miS
Museum
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Cerritos
96 min walk • The Los Angeles County Fire Museum is a public museum dedicated to the history of the Los Angeles County Fire Department in Los Angeles County, California. The museum has some 60 antique fire engines in its collection, including fire engines from the 1860s through just-retired apparatus.
4.1 miSW
Street
Rosecrans Avenue, Los Angeles
105 min walk • Rosecrans Avenue is a major west-east thoroughfare in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, USA. It has a total length of 27.5 miles. The street is named after U.S. Union General William S. Rosecrans, who purchased 13,000 acres of Rancho Sausal Redondo southwest of Los Angeles in 1869.
1.9 miW
33°56'12"N • 118°9'43"W
Los Amigos Golf Course, Los Angeles
49 min walk • Golf
2.8 miE
Museum, History museum, Science museum
Hathaway Ranch & Oil Museum, Los Angeles
72 min walk • The Hathaway Ranch & Oil Museum in Santa Fe Springs, California is a museum of five generations of Hathaway family and Southern California history.
4.5 miN
City, Area
City of Commerce, Los Angeles
115 min walk • Commerce is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 12,823 at the 2010 census, up from 12,568 at the 2000 census.
3.9 miNE
Area
Pico Rivera, Los Angeles
101 min walk • Pico Rivera is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California. The city is situated approximately 11 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, on the eastern edge of the Los Angeles basin, and on the southern edge of the area known as the San Gabriel Valley.