Abstract
Artesia and Cerritos are located in the southeastern edge of Los Angeles County, California. Suburban gardening in these areas changed to the dairy reserve from 1930 to 1960 . Dutch and Portuguese dairy farmers were pushed out due to the urban development of Los Angeles and became concentrated in Artesia and Dairy Valley（now Cerritos）. Artesia and Cerritos were incorporated as independent cities just before 1960 , and the dairy reserve was divided into small lots for the residential and commercial use. Many people, especially Pilipinos, Koreans and Chinese became concentrated there in the 1960 s and 1970 s. These ethnic groups formed one of the Ethnoburbs of Los Angeles. According to the Sanborn Map surveyed in 1923 , public buildings such as school, hospital, churches, post office and town hall on Pioneer Street were focal points of people of the surrounding market gardening areas. Based on air photos and telephone directory of 1962 , outstanding cultural landscape was hospitals on Pioneer Street, most of the public facilities and private shops were remained. Around 1980 many shopping plazas were constructed on the site formerly occupied by hospitals and at the crossroad. Each shopping plaza has ethnic features of banks, restaurants, clinic and grocery stores. One of the greatest changes of cultural landscape on Pioneer Street was the shift from central shopping district to“ Little India.” The first Indian shop opened in 1979 , and sari shops, jewelry stores and restaurants increased. Around 1995 Indian shops accounted for the majority of the shopping district, suggesting the formation of “ Little India.”
