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Originally Posted by craigs
Westwood was already gentrified by the time I got to UCLA in 1998. It always seemed to me more like the unofficial "Downtown Bel Air" than a real university district. That said, it's perfect for the folks living in the luxury towers on Wilshire that were highlighted earlier.
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Interesting comment; in my opinion, Westwood never gentrified; it never needed to. It was always (at least in the 70s and 80s) an affluent area mixed in with college students. If anything, by the late 90s, Westwood was a sleepy (if not totally dull) shell of itself. In fact, it's somehow more rundown-looking now than it ever was. Maybe the vacant storefronts make it look rundown?