Photos: Downtown L.A. is now DTLA
Shorthand for “downtown Los Angeles,” the initialism DTLA crept into the Angeleno lexicon over the past several years, a hashtag-friendly name that initially gained traction online and then bled into real life.
Friends gather for a selfie using a remote on a cellphone at 2nd and Spring streets during a recent Art Walk in downtown Los Angeles. They said they would be using the #dtla hashtag on their social media sites.
(Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)DTLA stickers are posted to a pole on Spring Street. Places often adopt new names when they gentrify, such as SoHo in New York City and SoMa in San Francisco. Like DTLA, the shorthand becomes synonymous with the area’s revitalization.
(Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)