Central Avenue Jazz Festival Central Avenue Jazz Festival The Central Avenue Jazz Festival is a yearly annual free jazz festival that takes place the last weekend in the month of July in the Southern section of Los Angeles. Central Avenue, after which the area is named, was in the 1930s and 1940s a vibrant center for jazz. At this time the infamous covenant line along Washington Boulevard demarcated the areas where African Americans were allowed to live. Even the giants of jazz music, such as Duke Ellington were allowed to play in Hollywood and other areas, but they could not stay there. They often
New York State Women Veterans Memorial eras. The text on the memorial reads ""Dedicated to the Women of New York State for their War Time Military Service in the Defense of this Nation"." New York State Women Veterans Memorial The New York State Women Veterans Memorial is located on Madison Avenue in Albany, New York. It commemorates the role of women in military service. The ground-breaking ceremony for the memorial was held in June 1998 and presided over by Governor George Pataki; the memorial was unveiled in December of the same year. The memorial comprises three panels, each with a bronze bas-relief sculpture. The central panel